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Publishers can scam you too!
For a while I thought it was just agents that scammed authors by charging “reading” fees, etc. But I came accross a link on Simon Haynes’s web-site that pointed to a forum discussion on PublishAmerica. The discussion is 2 years old, though has some newer updates. Publishers like these are not called vanity publishers for [...]
Posted: June 12th, 2007 under Publishing.
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Going from “Look - there’s my name” to “This isn’t paying me”
As a published writer of anything - whether fiction, non-fiction, journalism, or whatever - there is that feeling of getting your 15-minutes of fame. “Look Mam, there’s my name in this glossy magazine. Look Dad, I actually wrote those words”. It probably sustains you for the next couple of articles (or short stories, poems, etc). [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2007 under Creative Writing, Journalism, Non-Fiction, Publishing, The Writing Process, Writing.
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