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Author Doug Farren: 2015-08
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I'm a self-published author who wants to help other writers self publish their work. My US Amazon author page. My US Amazon author page. My Smashwords author page. Warning - this might be a longer post than normal]. I've been blogging for some time so what brought me to this point? Perhaps, if you want to be seen as a semi-professional or even an amateur. Self-published author: What does this mean? What have I been missing? I sent my Word version to a PDF and used that to create a print version using Cre...
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Writer Beware®: The Blog: Victoria Strauss -- American Author Contest
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Shining a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers and industry news and commentary. Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. August 10, 2007. Victoria Strauss - American Author Contest. Make way, Gather.com and your "people's choice" style novel. Here comes the American Author Contest. Let's suppress for a moment the feeling of unease that creeps over us whenever we see...
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Writer Beware®: The Blog: Agencies Becoming Publishers--a Trend and a Problem
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Shining a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers and industry news and commentary. Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. June 28, 2011. Agencies Becoming Publishers- a Trend and a Problem. Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware. Yesterday, Dystel and Goderich Literary Management. D&G is not alone. Laura Rennert at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. In connectio...
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Writer Beware®: The Blog: Finding Authors: The Importance of Establishing an Online Licensing System for Copyrighted Works
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2015/04/finding-authors-importance-of.html
Shining a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers and industry news and commentary. Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. April 23, 2015. Posted by Michael Capobianco. Right now, the primary international database of author identifiers is the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI), about which Writer Beware has blogged before. And the primary book identifier i...
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Writer Beware®: The Blog: Bowker Manuscript Submissions
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2010/08/bowker-manuscript-submissions.html
Shining a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers and industry news and commentary. Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. August 13, 2010. Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware. A few of life's inevitabilities:. Writers' quest to find a way around the submission process. Which allow writers to display their work for (theoretically at least) the attention of ag...
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Writer Beware®: The Blog: Victoria Strauss -- Amazon BookSurge Anti-Trust Lawsuit Can Proceed
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2009/08/victoria-strauss-amazon-booksurge-anti.html
Shining a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers and industry news and commentary. Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. August 27, 2009. Victoria Strauss - Amazon BookSurge Anti-Trust Lawsuit Can Proceed. Last year, Amazon decreed. That it would direct-sell no print-on-demand books that weren't printed by its POD subsidiary, BookSurge. Among other steps," he says, ...
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Writer Beware®: The Blog: Victoria Strauss -- Author Solutions Buys Trafford Publishing
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2009/04/victoria-strauss-author-solutions-buys.html
Shining a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers and industry news and commentary. Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. April 5, 2009. Victoria Strauss - Author Solutions Buys Trafford Publishing. Consolidation continues in the self-publishing sector: the Wall Street Journal. As with its January 2009 acquisition of Xlibris, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Writer Beware®: The Blog: Rights Grab: Omni Reboot (Updated)
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2015/03/rights-grab-omni-reboot.html
Shining a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers and industry news and commentary. Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. March 23, 2015. Rights Grab: Omni Reboot (Updated). Posted by Victoria Strauss. Do you remember Omni Magazine. Created in the 1970s by Penthouse. In 2013, Omni's archives were purchased by Jeremy Frommer of media company Jerrick Ventures. In and t...
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Writer Beware®: The Blog: The Strange and Twisted Tale of Peter Senese, Serial Con Man
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Shining a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers and industry news and commentary. Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. April 9, 2015. The Strange and Twisted Tale of Peter Senese, Serial Con Man. Posted by Victoria Strauss. Senese allegedly conned over $50,000 from one parent of a lost child. He was arrested and arraigned March 31. He's currently free on bail.