Class Action Lawsuit Against Author Solutions Inc.: Update

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware As I'm sure most readers of this blog know, self-publishing services provider Author Solu...

Take the Money and Run: Kerry Jacobson, "Book Publicist"

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Starting in the summer of last year, self-published authors whose books made it onto Amazon...

Another Small Press Horror Story: Silver Publishing is Gone

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Another small press disaster came to an ugly conclusion last week. In mid-2012, I began gettin...

How to Succeed in Authorship Without Really Trying

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Got the yen to write a book, but lack that essential creative spark? Looking to ride the coatt...

Pamela Wray and WordWorks Publishing Consultants: The Amazing Case of the Serial Plagiarizer

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Every time I consider purging Writer Beware's files to get rid of documentation on agents ...

The Short Life and Strange Death of Entranced Publishing

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware When Entranced Publishing (its website is now gone, but a recent archived version can be seen ...

Why Poets Should Not Seek Literary Agents

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware   NOTE: One of the most frequent search phrases that brings people to Writer Beware's Lite...