World’s Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals For November, 2025!
Don’t miss this batch! The last one is AWESOME!!!
BATTERED AUTHOR SYNDROME: Are YOU, Too, in Denial That You’re a Victim of a Publishing Scam? By James M. Walsh, Esq.
Why are you continuing to send money to a hack in a shack?
WritersWeekly Trivia Question for 10/30/2025
CONGRATS to Sara Storey, who was the first to correctly answer: One way to know if a book club is a scam is if it asks for a fee, or “spot fee,” for authors to be featured, as genuine book clubs do not charge authors for this. According to this week’s issue, what is one […]
Use Your Novel’s Book Birthday to Boost Sales! – by Dawn Colclasure
Personalizing a book birthday for novels can certainly grab a potential reader’s interest!
Your Book Is Too Long (And Here’s Why That Matters) By Richard Hoy, BoostABook.com
The most successful authors today have multiple books on the market!
What Horrors Will the Blood Moon Bring?!?! – Topic, Common Themes, and WINNERS of the WritersWeekly.com Fall, 2025 24-Hour Short Story Contest
Moonshine, a blood moon rising, and a girl in white… What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!?!
A NEW WAVE OF SCAM EMAILS IS TARGETING AUTHORS! “My book club wants to review your book!!”
PUT UP YOUR B.S. ANTENNAS, FOLKS!!! “Your book offers invaluable guidance and real-world examples that truly demystify the process of…” IT’S ALL FAKE!!!
When Your Adult Son Tells You to “Tone it Down” for Halloween…
NOT FUNNY!!!! I had to ground our 33-year-old son AND his 19-year-old brother!!
WritersWeekly Trivia Question for 10/25/2025
CONGRATS TO “ADAM WRYTER,” WHO WAS THE FIRST TO CORRECTLY ANSWER THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: The five companies are: Apex Digital Pro, Pro Writers network, Page Solution, Crescent spring literary and bluegrass bound books. According to this week’s issue, which five “companies” did WritersWeekly connect to a scammer using addresses and phone numbers? ***Please answer the […]
PRISM International
“PRISM International is a quarterly magazine out of Vancouver, British Columbia, whose mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Writing from PRISM has been featured in Best American Stories, Best American Essays and The Journey Prize Stories, amongst other noted publications.” Welcomes new writers. Circ. 1K. Quarterly. Pays right before or right after publication. Publishes ms 1-6 months after acceptance. Buys First North American rights. No reprints. Responds within 1-6 months.
Pays $40 per page for poetry, $30 per page for prose.