Amazon.com now offering BookScan to Authors
Amazon.com is now offering BookScan information to authors enrolled in their Author Central program. For authors, previously one had to […]
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When to Give Up Your Day Job
Every book on how to be your own boss has instructions about when to give up your day job. Each one of these books has a particular rule of thumb. Some say you cannot quit your day job until you have three months’ salary in the bank.
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How Not to Launch a Career in Publishing
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
I semi-frequently get questions from people who want to know how to break into the publishing industry–not as writers, but as agents, editors, copy editors, publicists, designers, and so on. There are a nu…
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Guest Post–Work Like Hell: Lessons from the Pulp Jungle
Gruber was living on dreams and precious else during those lean, dangerous years. He played hide and seek with his landlord until he could scrounge his rent, reduced his food budget by eating “automat” soup (a meal made of the free ketchup and crackers available at the automat, stirred in a bowl, with the hot water for tea to taste), and dropping off manuscripts on foot to avoid any postal costs.
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Swinging the Other Way: Vanity Publisher Goes Non-Vanity
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
As I’ve discussed before on this blog, one of the many changes currently rocking the publishing industry is a general blurring of lines, a mixing and melding of formerly sharply separate categories and func…
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Getting Published is Not a Crap Shoot
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Many of the writers who contact me with Writer Beware-type questions seem to be convinced that the process of getting published is equivalent to a crap shoot. There are enormous numbers of people trying to …
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The Peter Lampack Agency Loses Suit Against Former Client
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Publishers Weekly reports that a New York Supreme Court judge has dismissed most claims in The Peter Lampack Agency’s suit against a former client, best selling mystery author Martha Grimes.
At the heart …
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Reality Check on Aisle Writer Beware
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
Writer Beware gets a ton of email. Reports of schemes, scams, and fee-charging, of course, but also questions about agents’ and publishers’ reputations, questions about the researching/querying/submitting and requests to deny reality.
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Cold Iron: David Boyer, Plagiarist
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware
I hear often from writers worried that their work will be stolen. Especially among new writers, it’s a major fear. However, theft in the book and short fiction world is extremely rare. (Really. Reputable ag…
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SFWA annual business meeting
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America will hold this year’s annual business meeting on Saturday, October 30th, at the 2010 World