Published on April 26, 2019
copyrights, legal, self-publishing, traditional publishing, writing career advice

If something goes awry in the government database (which is a question of when, not if), someone searching for your pseudonym could find your home or mailing address, put two and two together…
Published on April 26, 2019
copyrights, Invasion of Privacy, legal, libel, self-publishing, storytelling, traditional publishing, writing career advice

Don’t be Karen! Research publishing laws BEFORE writing that book!
Published on April 11, 2019
author scams, copyrights, writing career advice, writing scams

Anthology publisher ripping you off? Rescind the rights to your story AND then invoice them for copyright infringement!
Published on March 21, 2019
copyrights, movie rights scams, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, writing scams

Movie deals are rare yet many authors pay thousands to these types of firms.
Published on March 13, 2019
copyrights, writing career advice, writing scams

An elder lady writer has been stalking me for 7+ years every single day. She has copied my blog posts and used some of my blog post ideas as her own. She didn’t even bother to change the name of…
Published on March 8, 2019
copyrights, legal, self-publishing

Is recreating a photo you find online copyright infringement?
Published on January 10, 2019
children's book authors, copyrights, illustrating, self-publishing

How does paying an illustrator work? How do you determine how much to pay them?
Published on January 2, 2019
copyrights, self-publishing

What I want to do is put my aunt’s three books into the public domain now, and make them available through digital preservation efforts. But, I first need to prove that I actually have the right to donate them…
Published on November 13, 2018
copyrights, legal

“My friend left his book rights to me via an email message, and verbally. The estate claims it belongs to them. What do you think?”
Published on October 29, 2018
author, copyrights, diversify your writing income, ghostwriting, Networking, pod complaints, Print on demand, self-publishing

We launched this service to counter the greedy rights’-grab currently occurring in the industry…