12 Ways to Avoid Getting Sued When Writing Your Memoirs – by Angela Hoy, WritersWeekly.com and BookLocker.com
A book you’ll be publishing for the masses is NOT the place to settle a score, even if you think you’re doing it anonymously…
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Publishing Other People’s Non-fiction Stories Can Get You Sued!
Unfortunately, she can’t publish the book as-is because it comes with a great deal of legal liability. Here was my response to her…
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When An Author Dies, The Vultures Will Rise!
She didn’t yet know who to leave her intellectual property to but that she knew who NOT to leave it to.
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Why Your Publisher Doesn’t Care if YOU Get Sued
It’s pretty pathetic when a company is happy to take hundreds or thousands of dollars from you, knowing all the while that YOU might get sued some day for something you included in your book…
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