New Look for Writer Beware

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware If you're a regular here, you'll have noticed our new look! It's courtesy of the t...

2014 in Review: The Best of Writer Beware

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Welcome to 2015! It's time again for our annual look back at the year just past, to remind...

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 ...