Publishers Weekly Features Vanity Publisher Morgan James...Again

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Once again, Publishers Weekly's annual overview of fast-growing independent publishers f...

New Authors as Shark Bait: Steve Alten's A&M Publishing

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware UPDATE: Shortly after publication of my and Chuck Wendig's posts about A&M Publishing...

Kickbacks, Opportunism, and Fake Awards, Oh My: Three Solicitation Alerts

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Bookfuel You may or may not have heard of Bookfuel , a self-publishing services provider with...

Solicitation Alert: RPI Publications, a.k.a. Raider Publishing International

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Raider Publishing International , the focus of numerous author complaints over the past few...

Termination Fees in Publishing Contracts: Why They're Not Just Bad for Authors

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware In the course of my work with Writer Beware, I see a lot of publishing contracts (for the mos...

The Fair Contract Initiative

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I write a lot about publishing contracts on this blog, and questions about publishing contrac...

Profit Engine: The Author Solutions Markup

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware As most of you already know, Penguin Random House dumped Author Solutions at the end of 2015,...