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Aug 27, 2006 · Book Club Scam. ariba10 Posts: 5,432 Forumite. 27 August 2006 at 9:00PM. I returned off holidays at the begining of July to find a card among my mail saying that a delivery company had left a parcel for me in my front garden ninteen days earlier. ( My front garden is six foot by eighteen foot and fully paved with a two foot high wall seperating ...
Aug 28, 2020 · A couple of weeks ago I wrote about scammers impersonating reputable literary agents. These are not isolated incidents: I have a growing file of reports and complaints about this growing phenomenon–including from writers who’ve lost large amounts of money. Now publishers are being impersonated as well. Here are a couple of examples of the kindRead More
- By Anne R. Allen
- Phishing Scammers Are Stealing Manuscripts
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2020 was a terrible year in so many ways. But one group seems to have thrived: the scammer community. Publishing scammers are everywhere now. I hear about new ones every week, each more heartbreaking than the one before. And more outrageous.
Yes. This is happening. It’s a bizarre and complicated scam targeting traditionally published authors, often famous ones. But unknowns have been hit too. Authors will get an email that appears to be from their agent or editor, asking for the latest draft of the WIP. But it’s not from the agent. It’s from a scammer. The unsuspecting author doesn’t k...
Plenty of scammers show up in my own inbox. I usually know enough to send them directly to spam, but I know some writers will be caught by them. And it only takes a few successful hits to keep these crooks going. Here are some basic things you need to know to stay safe. And so does your sweet next door neighbor who’s got a half-finished memoir and ...
I thought fee-charging scam agents disappeared a decade ago, but they’re ba-a-a-ck. The old-school scammers set up “agencies” that either charged reading fees and “copying and postage” fees, or they had cozy relationships with “editing” companies and demanded the author pay a hefty fee for a bad edit. The contemporary scammers are much bolder. They...
If the only reason a company contacts you is that you put the word “writer” in your profile, then be prepared to meet a publishing scammer. I saw a sad little post on Facebook a few months ago from an author who was over the moon because a publisher had approached her saying they were interested in “her book.” She was surprised they didn’t know it ...
Yes. We live in the age of self-publishing and “hybrid publishing.” Unfortunately, a lot of iffy presses pose as “self-publishing assistants” or “hybrid publishers” when they’re just overpriced vanity publishers. There are some very good companies that offer self-publishing services. Companies like BookBaby and Lulu offer excellent formatters and d...
If anybody approaches you with promises of an advance with more than three zeros after it, do some serious investigating. Especially if you don’t have an agent. Memoirs especially don’t tend to sell in large numbers, so unless your book is a high-concept novel or a biography of a major celebrity, be very wary. Some of these scammers are promising u...
Yes, I do know of authors who have been solicited by legit agents, but they were journalists or well-known short story or essay writers who were multi-published in venues other than books. They were not newbies. Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware warned us in December about one of the current scams that snags the dewy-eyed newbies. They approach a w...
Authors are obsessed with book reviews, especially on Amazon. That’s probably why solicitations by paid book review services are the most common scams I find in my inbox. Most of the contemporary scammers have the sense not to promise Amazon reviews any more, because Amazon now has fierce penaltiesfor paid reader reviews. (Paid and exchanged review...
These have been around for at least a decade, and they’re still going strong. (Edit 2/5/21: a reader recently reported a nasty junk marketing company called Book Writing Hub. Our reader paid over $5000 for “marketing” that was not only junk, but nearly non-existent.) There was a time when Tweeting your book title might grab the attention of a possi...
How to Tell Serious Review Offer from Scam [resolved] by MarkDeanStratus » Sun Dec 18, 2022 3:51 am. Hi, everyone. As a first-time, self-published author who is learning how to promote my book and get sales, I've received e-mail offers from people offering to provide reviews and promote my book (e.g., on Amazon, Goodreads, Facebook).
Aug 21, 2019 · 2. 'Literary agents' promising book deals. Another kind of scam you might be dealing with is an agent scam. If a literary agent unsolicitedly contacts you to offer you a book deal with a publisher or asks you to pay a reading fee, your spidey sense should be tingling pretty hard.
Oct 15, 2024 · Scammers Impersonating Hachette Book Group. October 15, 2024: Since our warning on October 20, 2023, authors continue to report being targeted by a scam impersonating Hachette Book Group. The scammers send authors unsolicited emails claiming to have discovered their work on Amazon and offering a “unique opportunity for traditional publishing.”
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I only read two books from the site, and both weren’t enjoyable. The first you have to read and review for free, so they approved that review, but the second—the one you’re paid for—wasn’t approved, so I read a book, wasted my time, and didn’t get paid because the editors found 3-4 “errors” in my review (subjective uses of commas, and another was saying hometown instead of home ...
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