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********************************************************* Report from the Writing Scams Committee Over the past three years, the Writing Scams Committee has collected an archive of complaints and documentation on 224 literary agencies and 65 publishers that charge fees, refer to or run their own paid editing services, work with questionable outside services, offer exploitive contracts, and otherwise abuse and defraud writers. The Committee has shared information from its archives with federal and state organizations, including state Attorneys General, and is involved in several ongoing investigations. It also works closely with other literary scam trackers, including Bill Martin of Agent Research & Evaluation and Prof. Jim Fisher of Edinboro State University, Pennsylvania. The Committee receives up to 30 complaints and questions a week from both professional and beginning writers through Writer Beware, the cautionary section of the SFWA website. Writer Beware gets approximately 150 hits daily, and has received press coverage in Publishers Weekly, the Washington Post, and the Jerusalem Post, among others.
Posted March 8, 2001 |
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