David Gaughran throws down the gauntlet in his excellent blog post The Author Exploitation Business . He writes: [Being a writer is] a ...

Writers Beware Of Autharium It seems like this is the time of year for scams targeting writers. Passive Guy, aka David Vandagriff, rece...

In John Scalzi's latest blog post, A Contract From Alibi , he writes that Alibi's contract terms are so heinous he wouldn't r...

Scammers are sending out fake invitations to speak at Bexley College. So far mostly SF/F writers have been targeted. Courtesy of Victor...

The Albee Agency: Writers Beware I first read about The Albee Agency as I was going through my RSS feed this morning. Writer Beware h...

Simon & Schuster Creates A Self-Publishing Portal Just today Simon & Schuster announced it's partnering with Author Solut...

I was first introduced to the idea of the vanity press by Umberto Eco in his book Foucault's Pendulum. Eco does an excellent job of e...

When I was a child, I dreamt of becoming an author and being published by Penguin. (Yes, I was an odd child, but that's a post for ...

PublishAmerica has been in the news lately and I wanted to write a post detailing why a writer should, in my opinion, never ever get inv...

Writer Beware Writer Lee Goldberg (Monk, The Dead Man series) spoke up a few days ago about a scam that Outskirts Press is running . ...

Finally! PublishAmerica has been scamming authors out of their hard earned dollars for too many years. If you haven't heard about the...

Edited: June 23, 2021 : Hi, I just received this comment: "Hey, it seems that actually refers to something about our domain name from...

At least, according to Dean Wesly Smith it is, and he should know. He writes : [This scam] is designed to take a writer's work, con...