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Jan 10, 2021 · For more on this audacious scam go to Writer Beware, Book Review Scams are Everywhere. 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.
- Riding the Coattails of Publishing Influencers. If you Google “Anne R. Allen,” about halfway down the SERP (Search Engine Results Page) — before a link to this blog — is an ad for a notorious vanity publisher.
- Vanity Publishers Posing as Big Five Publishers. Never underestimate the chutzpa of publishing scammers. One of the Philippines companies that broke off from the Author Solutions scam machine has been posing as “Hachette US” and may be masquerading as other members of the Big Five.
- Fraudster Marketing Companies that Use Names of Respected Publishing Professionals. Mass-spamming the general public with press releases or tweets is worth absolutely nothing.
- Boxed Sets That Promise USA Today Bestseller Status. I warned people about boxed set scams last year, because there were some that devolved into toxic cults, but there are new scammers in town, and charities have been ripped off as well as authors.
Sep 19, 2021 · About 6 years ago, someone copied large chunks of my editing website, including my most glowing testimonials, and changed the names under them and pasted them into a bogus site, passing the reviews off as their own! If a FB friend hadn’t alerted me about it, I would have never known.
Aug 13, 2020 · The solicitation is the main indicator, but scam sign is all over the website: non-working social media and other links, false claims to rep trad-pubbed books, and there’s no independent evidence of the existence of any of the supposed agents.
Jan 4, 2024 · Question: today I received an email addressed to my pseudonym from (someone who owns a book review website). She claims she reviews new books, has been doing this for years, and has increased the sales of new authors.
Aug 21, 2019 · Stay safe, avoid scammers, and we know you’ll find the right professionals for your book soon enough! – Originally published on Aug 21, 2019. This guide exposes some of the most common scams and shows you how to identify which publishing companies to avoid.
Aug 28, 2020 · To pass the “1st stage of the acquisition” of their book, and move on to “an exclusive contract,” the author had already been persuaded (by “agent” Arial Brown, who is as fake as this offer) to hand over more than $8,000 for a new website and YouTube video.
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