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May 28, 2023 COMPLAINTS about Authors Press AND Westwood Books Publishing - WritersWeekly - May 27, 2023
May 20, 2023 World's Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals For May, 2023 - WritersWeekly - 05/19/2023
May 13, 2023 Yet Another "Publisher" is Telling Authors This Specific, Bald-faced Lie - WritersWeekly - 05/12/23
May 6, 2023 Author Contacts Me, and Avoids Getting Scammed - WritersWeekly 05/05/2023
April 30, 2023 Another Author Gets Rooked by a Scammer - WritersWeekly - 04/29/2023
April 22, 2023 Why Authors and Publishers are THRILLED that Amazon is Closing Book Depository - WritersWeekly - 04/21/2023
April 15, 2023 Battle Rages in Texas County over Puberty and Fart Books - WritersWeekly - 04/14/2023
April 14, 2023 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT from WritersWeekly.com - THIS SATURDAY is the Spring, 2023 24-Hour Short Story C o n t e s t
April 8, 2023 MORE AMAZON KDP COMPLAINTS. Why Complain When You Can DO Something About It? - WritersWeekly - 04/08/2023
April 1, 2023 World's Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals for March, 2023 - WritersWeekly.com - 03/31/2023
March 18, 2023 "How DARE you refuse to publish my book?" - WritersWeekly - 03/17/2023
March 11, 2023 EXTREME AUTHOR WARNING About AuthorUnit.com / PrimeChamber.com - WritersWeekly - 03/10/2023
March 4, 2023 How to Use Breaking News Stories to Instantly Promote Your Website, Services, or Books - WritersWeekly - 03/03/23
February 24, 2023 Can't Easily Find Your Book on Amazon? Here's the Disturbing Reason Why - WritersWeekly - 02/23/2023
February 18, 2023 Authors’ Place Press is Out of Business After Lawsuit Filed by 11 Authors - WritersWeekly - 02/17/2023
February 15, 2023 ChatGPT, AI, and the Future of Writing and Publishing - WritersWeekly - 02/10/2023
February 4, 2023 Amazon KDP Terminates ANOTHER Author's Account, AND Keeps Her Royalties - WritersWeekly.com - 02/03/23
January 28, 2023 World's Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals For January, 2023 - WritersWeekly - 01/27/2023
January 20, 2023 THIS SATURDAY is the Winter, 2023 24-Hour Short Story C O N T E S T - WritersWeekly - 01/19/2023
January 13, 2023 Man Admits Stealing More Than 1,000 Unpublished Manuscripts - WritersWeekly - 01/12/2023
January 6, 2023 NEW: 2023 Self-Publishing Price Comparison - You won't BELIEVE how much some of these firms have jacked up their already-ridiculous prices - WritersWeekly - 01/05/2023
December 30, 2022 Scandals, Complaints, and Humor: 2022 BEST OF WRITERSWEEKLY! Our most-read articles of the year - WritersWeekly - 12/29/2022
December 24, 2022 "Why are so many books out of stock at Amazon now?" - WritersWeekly - 12/23/2022
December 18, 2022 6 Secrets for Landing Celebrity Interviews - WritersWeekly - 12/17/2022
December 9, 2022 Authors Move to BookLocker After Amazon KDP Unexpectedly Terminates Their Accounts - WritersWeekly - 12/08/2022
December 3, 2022 Marketing to Libraries: A Waste of Time? - WritersWeekly - 12/02/2022
November 24, 2022 WritersWeekly is Now Also Featuring High-Paying, Full-time, REMOTE Writing Jobs - Check out what we have for you this week - 11/23/2022 - WritersWeekly.com
November 18, 2022 Z-Library Ebook Site Busted by the FBI + BookLocker's EXTREMELY Popular Annual Half-Price Publishing Package S A L E is Imminent - WritersWeekly - 11/17/2022
November 11, 2022 How I Got a Quarter of a Million Views on My TikTok Video - in Just 3 Days - WritersWeekly - 11/10/2022
November 6, 2022 Movies Have Ratings. Should Books? - WritersWeekly - 11/05/2022
October 29, 2022 Chess Champion Sues for Libel After Cheating Accusations - WritersWeekly - 10/28/2022
October 22, 2022 World's Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals For October, 2022 - WritersWeekly - 10/21/2022
October 14, 2022 Why is Amazon Raising the Prices of So Many PAPERBACK Books by $8 to $10...or More? - WritersWeekly - 10/13/2022
October 8, 2022 Why It's a Bad Idea to Delay Releasing Your Book...For Almost Every Reason - WritersWeekly - 10/07/2022
October 1, 2022 How to Get Your Readers to Buy Your Other Books - WritersWeekly - 09/30/2022
September 24, 2022 A JERK Tries to Sell Me Scanned (Illegal) Copies of Books, and Ends Up Looking the Fool - WritersWeekly - 09/24/2022
September 16, 2022 How To Write a Killer Newsletter To Help You Sell More Books - WritersWeekly - 09/16/2022
September 16, 2022 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM WRITERSWEEKLY.COM - THIS SATURDAY is the Fall, 2022 24-Hour Short Story C o n t e s t
September 10, 2022 The Top 5 Best Selling Book Genres Every Author Should Know - WritersWeekly - 09/09/2022
September 3, 2022 Can You Guess Which Publisher is Closing NOW? - WritersWeekly - 09/02/2022
August 26, 2022 Yes, You CAN Be Sued for Libel, Even If What You Wrote Is 100% True - WritersWeekly - 08/25/2022
August 20, 2022 "Hey, why don't you copy that other company that screwed me over? After all, their services were F R E E!" - WritersWeekly - 08/19/2022
August 12, 2022 AUTHORS: Take Some Advice from a Do-It-Yourselfer... Know What You CAN'T Do Yourself - WritersWeekly - 08/12/2022
August 6, 2022 Is This New York Times Real Estate Writer SQUATTING? - WritersWeekly - 08/05/2022
July 30, 2022 It Happened AGAIN. When Friends Lie to Authors About Buying Their Books... - WritersWeekly - 07/29/2022
July 22, 2022 ANGRY COMPLAINTS about Xlibris - WritersWeekly - 07/21/2022
July 16, 2022 LAST CHANCE - The Summer 24-Hour Short Story C o n t e s t Starts TOMORROW - WritersWeekly - 07/15/2022
July 9, 2022 BOOK RE-PUBLISHING S C A M ALERT - WritersWeekly - 07/08/2022
July 3, 2022 Guess the Weight of Mason's Yard Long Bean Harvest to Win a Publishing Package from BookLocker - WritersWeekly for 07/02/2022
June 25, 2022 More SCATHING COMPLAINTS about AuthorHouse / Author Solutions - WritersWeekly - 06-24-2022
June 17, 2022 World's Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals For June, 2022 - WritersWeekly - 06/16/2022
June 11, 2022 ARE YA SCARED?! New Author Cold-Feet-Syndrome is REAL - WritersWeekly - 06/10/2022
June 4, 2022 We're at a 2.6-star Hotel with a Drug Dealer Guarding the Back Door... - WritersWeekly - 06/04/2022
May 29, 2022 AUTHORS: Do NOT Publish N*de Pictures of Dying or Dead People! - WritersWeekly - 05/28/2022
May 21, 2022 10 Secret Reasons Why That Publisher Rejected Your Book (That He/She Will Never Tell You About) - WritersWeekly - 05/20/2022
May 14, 2022 3 Common Reasons Why Freelancers Get Sued - It Happened To Me - WritersWeekly - 05/12/2022
May 8, 2022 How to Become a Paid Audiobook Narrator - WritersWeekly - 05/07/2022
April 30, 2022 Eye-Opening Complaints about Amazon KDP - WritersWeekly - 04/29/2022
April 22, 2022 Any Writer Who Sends Me This Kind of Filth Will Be Reported to the Authorities - WritersWeekly - 04/22/2022
April 16, 2022 Have You Been Denied a Writing Gig Because of Your THOUGHTS on S*xual Orientation? - WritersWeekly - 04/15/2022
April 9, 2022 I Drove into Black Clouds and Sideways Rain, My Ears Popped, and THEN... - WritersWeekly - 04/08/2022
April 2, 2022 The Most Unprofessional Request I've Ever Received from an Author - WritersWeekly - 04/01/2022
March 26, 2022 ON MY SOAPBOX AGAIN: Trigger Warnings ON BOOKS?!?! - WritersWeekly - 03/25/2022
March 19, 2022 World's Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals For March, 2022 - WritersWeekly - 03/18/2022
March 12, 2022 Author Raises 19M on Kickstarter to Self-Publish His New Novels - WritersWeekly - 03-11-2022
March 5, 2022 Russian Journalists are Quitting and Escaping - WritersWeekly - 03/03/2022
February 26, 2022 AN OPEN LETTER TO AMAZON: Please stop publishing garbage books -WritersWeekly - February 25, 2022
February 20, 2022 I Believe Children Shouldn't Be Exposed to S*xual Content and Now I'm a HOMOPHOBIC RACIST? - WritersWeekly - 02/18/2022
February 11, 2022 Keeping Certain Books Out of the Hands of Children is NOT Censorship - WritersWeekly - 02/10/2022
February 6, 2022 Lawyer Guilty of Stealing $300K of Author's Advance - WritersWeekly - 02/05/2022
January 28, 2022 Why People Are Burning This Author's Books at His Grave -WritersWeekly - 01/27/2022
January 21, 2022 COMPLAINTS about JustFiction Edition - WritersWeekly - 01/21/22
January 14, 2022 If You Can't Get Writing Work Right Now, You Have Only Yourself to Blame - WritersWeekly - 01/13/2022
January 7, 2022 FBI Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Book Manuscripts - WritersWeekly - 01/07/2022
January 2, 2022 Author Kills Using Violent Scene from His Own Novel - WritersWeekly - 01/01/2022
December 24, 2021 Author Must Hand Over $5.1M in Book Profits - WritersWeekly - 12/23/21
December 18, 2021 6 High-Paying Poetry Markets - WritersWeekly - 12/17/2021
December 11, 2021 Why Your Publisher Doesn't Care if YOU Get Sued - WritersWeekly - 12/11/2021
December 4, 2021 Canadian School District Censors an Author, and you won't believe why... - WritersWeekly - 12/03/2021
November 26, 2021 BookLocker's Half-Price Black Friday thru Cyber Monday Book Publishing Package Sale IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW - WritersWeekly - 11/26/2021
November 20, 2021 Mainstream Media and Politicians Expect Lawsuits by Rittenhouse Lawyers - WritersWeekly - 11/19/2021
November 12, 2021 If You're Not Going to Promote Your Book, Why Did You Even WRITE It? - WritersWeekly - 11/12/2021
November 5, 2021 Need Your Book Published By Christmas? You Only Have ONE Option Now... - WritersWeekly.com - 11/04/2021
October 30, 2021 Don't You DARE Trick or Treat THERE! - Topic, Common Themes, and Winners of the WritersWeekly.com Fall, 2021 24-Hour Short Story Contest - WritersWeekly - 10/29/2021
October 22, 2021 Diva Debbie Stopped By for an Insult...- WritersWeekly - 10/21/2021
October 15, 2021 No, "Netflix" did NOT just email you about turning your book into a movie... - WritersWeekly 10-15-2021
October 9, 2021 Book Industry Thrown Into Chaos Over Supply-Chain Delays - WritersWeekly - 10/08/2021
October 3, 2021 Another Reason Authors Must Own and Control Their Own Websites? CANCEL CULTURE - WritersWeekly - 10/02/21
October 1, 2021 World's Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals For September, 2021 - WritersWeekly - 09/23/21
September 17, 2021 TOMORROW is Start-time for the Fall 24-Hour Short Story Contest. What Will the Contest Topic Be? - WritersWeekly - 09/17/2021
September 10, 2021 Brutally Honest Review of an Author's Book Description on Amazon - WritersWeekly for 09/10/2021
September 3, 2021 If You're Buying Books for Christmas This Year, You Should Start Shopping NOW. Here's Why... - WritersWeekly - 09/03/2021
August 27, 2021 When One Co-Author Tries to "Fire" the Other - WritersWeekly for 08/26/2021
August 20, 2021 Woman, Raised by Wolves as a Child, Sues Publisher as an Adult, and All Hell Breaks Loose - WritersWeekly - 08/19/2021
August 13, 2021 NEVER, EVER Buy THESE Book Promotion Products/Services. PERIOD. - WritersWeekly for 08/12/2021
August 7, 2021 10 Paying Arts And Crafts Markets For Writers - WritersWeekly - 08/06/2021
July 30, 2021 Brutal Honesty, Because You Asked. Why YOUR Book Isn't Selling - WritersWeekly - 07-29-2021
July 23, 2021 If You Want Your Book Published in Time for Christmas Sales, You Need to Act Now - WritersWeekly - 07/22/21
July 16, 2021 THIS SATURDAY - What Will the Summer, 2021 24-Hour Short Story Contest Topic Be?? - WritersWeekly - 07/15/2021
July 9, 2021 World's Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals For July, 2021 - WritersWeekly - 07/08/2021
July 2, 2021 DISRUPTIVE AND DUMB: Do NOT Lie to Your Publisher About ANYTHING! - WritersWeekly - 07/01/2021
June 25, 2021 And, Even MORE Complaints about LuLu Press - WritersWeekly - 06/24/2021
June 19, 2021 Why "Free" Publishing Services Can Quickly Go Belly Up, and How They Can Keep Screwing Authors Years Later - WritersWeekly - 06/18/2021
June 12, 2021 9 Obscure Markets That Pay Writers Up to $500 and More - WritersWeekly - 06/11/2021
June 7, 2021 Amazon Hires People Just So They Can Fire Them?! - WritersWeekly - 06/03/2021
June 1, 2021 World's Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals For May, 2021 - Writers Weekly - 05/28/21
May 29, 2021 How to Get Social Media Influencers to Promote Your Book - WritersWeekly - 05/14/2021
May 7, 2021 "She's my friend so she won't sue me for writing about her, right???" -WritersWeekly - 05/06/2021
April 29, 2021 Food Magazine "Cancels" Beef - WritersWeekly - 04/29/2021
April 24, 2021 6 Paying Niche Short Story Markets for Writers - WritersWeekly - 04/23/2021
April 15, 2021 THIS SATURDAY is the Spring, 2021 24-Hour Short Story C o n t e s t - WritersWeekly - 04/15/21
April 8, 2021 Are Authors REALLY This Desperate for Eyeballs? - WritersWeekly - 04/08/2021
April 3, 2021 9 Paying Markets for Writers on the History and Culture of Food - WritersWeekly - 04/01/2021
March 19, 2021 Writers: Do NOT Let Facebook Host Your Website or Newsletter - WritersWeekly - 03/18/2021
March 13, 2021 4 Paying Fiction Podcast Markets for Writers - WritersWeekly.com - 03/12/2021
March 5, 2021 2021 Self-Publishing Price Comparison - WritersWeekly.com - 03/04/2021
February 27, 2021 WHAT in the WORLD is in THAT BOX?! Topic, Common Themes, and Winners of the WritersWeekly.com Winter, 2021 24-Hour Short Story Contest
February 20, 2021 You, Too, Can Teach an Online "Write Your Own Obituary Class" - WritersWeekly.com - 02/19/2021
February 13, 2021 Paying Markets Galore for Writers - WritersWeekly.com - 02/12/2021
February 6, 2021 I have a moral issue with "read aloud" children's books on YouTube - WritersWeekly.com - 02/05/2021
January 30, 2021 Assuming Your Readers are Stupid is Just Plain...STUPID - WritersWeekly.com - 01/29/2021
January 23, 2021 Despite Covid, Print Books Still Outsold Ebooks in 2020 - WritersWeekly.com - 01/22/2021
January 15, 2021 Amazon Ebook Investigation - WritersWeekly.com - 01/14/2021
January 8, 2021 LAST CHANCE! THIS SATURDAY!! What will the Winter, 2021 24-Hour Short Story Contest Topic Be?!?! - WritersWeekly.com - 01/07/2021
January 2, 2021 Do NOT Pay Someone to Showcase Your Book at a "Virtual Book Fair" - WritersWeekly.com - 1/1/2021