Travel articles can be written without leaving your backyard. In July, my oldest son informed me that a business acquaintance was leading trail riders and a wagon on a two-week trek starting from our hometown.
I found an article I wrote online, published without my permission. They claim they got permission from another company (the company I first sold the article to – and it was *not* a work-for-hire job!). I sent them an invoice. However, they didn’t agree to pay my invoice, only to remove my article. What should I do?
Tell him that’s not good enough. You can’t take away somebody’s copyrights and then restore them just like that (snap!). It’s like spending someone’s rare coin at the store and then trying to pay them back with a quarter. And, the fact that they got caught using stolen goods isn’t your concern. They shouldn’t be publishing articles without speaking to the writer directly. Obviously, you can’t always trust companies that claim they have permission to resell/share articles with others.
Since I try to get most of my work done during the school day, I tend to feel pressure to stay at my desk the entire time. Last spring I hit a dry spell. I kept sending out queries and checking in with my contacts, but nothing materialized. Anxious to make some sales before school let out for the summer, I remained fixed at my computer each day. By day’s end I’d be drained and irritable, but nothing was turning into cash.
SEVENTH COMPLAINT about RiseUp Publications, LLC. / usariseup.com / Ellis Management Marketing Group / EMMG / emmg.net / Janice Ellis / Christopher Ellis / collegeoutlook.net / – Publisher of For Posterity, Achieve, Creative Outlook, College Outlook Counselor’s Guide, The Business Kit, RX Dialogue, The Compliance Monitor, Future of Asthma, Managed Care Training, Pharmaceutical Representatives Companion, and Digest-ables – SEVENTH COMPLAINT!
COMPLAINT about We Are Movie Geeks / wearemoviegeeks.com / Scott Hutchison – Publisher claims all rights for no pay; posts by writer were credited to publisher’s wife after writer left the site.
COMPLAINT about Bellezza – Publisher of La Vita di Donne / lavitamag.com / Bellezza Magazine / bellezzamag.com / Travel Envy, Holiday Gift Guide, The Belleezza Source, The Bride’s Book, and Swimsuit Issue & Spring Fling – Claims they don’t have to pay for articles accepted by one of their editors who had “malicous intent.” Owes writer $164.00.
We had our last big RV hurrah of the year last weekend, taking Max and Mason to a campground on the Maine coast.
Think you’re safe from the Amazon/BookSurge ultimatum because you’re in the United Kingdom? Think again. You might be next!
Amazon has launched a POD service in the U.K. While they say “We are offering titles that are being produced by other print on demand providers” – they don’t say they’ll continue to do so.
Read more HERE.
Angela,
A. Antaonow’s article was fantastic! What a great — and fresh — topic for a feature article. The subject is something that I’ve noticed too, and that bothers me to no end. In fact, I wrote a blog post on the subject myself last year:
https://www.katharineswan.com/2007/12/when-writers-screw-other-writers.html
Thanks to you for running the article — and to the author for writing it! It’s good to raise awareness that our fellow writers can sometimes also be our worst enemies!
Sincerely,
Katharine S. Leppert
https://www.katharineswan.com
I’m a lot of fun on a school field trip (embarrassing is the word my children would choose). It’s not enough for me to visit Philadelphia and listen to the standard speech by the National Park Service employee. I ask weird questions. Who named the Liberty Bell? What did the men who wrote the Constitution eat for lunch? Did they order takeout or did they brown bag it? Did somebody from Philadelphia really invent the Philly cheesesteak? For decades I’ve waited but no one created a magazine “niche-y” enough for the tiny shards of knowledge I’ve gathered.
If you are a writer, you know it’s hard work. It takes patience, persistence, lots of time, an appreciation of the process, it’s harder than it appears…and that’s the easy part. What does a writer do after you’ve written something?
Lulu.com – Has laid off 25 of its 100 employees
Level 10 Solutions LLC / level10solutions.com / Waleed Mohammed – DON’T MISS THIS ONE!
SIXTH COMPLAINT about RiseUp Publications, Ellis Management Marketing Group, et. al. received about RiseUp Publications, LLC. / usariseup.com / Ellis Management Marketing Group / EMMG / emmg.net / Janice Ellis / Christopher Ellis, et. al.
CityView Magazine / Knoxville’s CityView Magazine / cityviewmag.com / Nathan Sparks – The plot thickens…
