Happy Holidays

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware The Writer Beware blog will be on holiday hiatus for the next two weeks. I will still be answ...

Evaluating Publishing Contracts: Six Ways You May Be Sabotaging Yourself

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware As I've followed the discussion (for instance, here , here , and here ) over the past coup...

Rights Grab: Transferring Copyright

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware EDITED 12/17/14 TO ADD: The Toast has announced that it will change its contract terms. See t...

Alert: Questionable Terms of Use in HBO's Game of Thrones Compendium

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware UPDATE 12/18/14: HBO has changed its terms of use to partially address the concerns below. Se...

Don't Do This: Wrong Ways to Try and Escape Your Deadbeat Publisher

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware The other day, I received this email: Dear Writer Beware, A couple of years ago, I published ...