Large Overseas Book Order? Don’t Get Excited…

Sometimes excitement about an order can cloud common sense.
Sometimes excitement about an order can cloud common sense.
If an author has any enemies (or suspected enemies), I recommend he or she remove those people from their social media friends’ lists, as well as their email lists long before marketing of a new book begins…
Being told you have to buy insurance to close a book distribution deal? Sounds fishy because it is.
Offering something for nothing is a really dumb business model. While working with a “free” company may seem tempting to some authors, these firms typically go belly-up pretty quickly. And, some end up ripping their former authors off for years after the firm’s demise…while holding those authors’ books hostage.
We received the following FAKE copyright infringement accusation this week via email…
Here are some tricks publishers use to lure good writers to bad publications.
Ah, “hybrid.” Such a cool sounding word, right? But…
Something that really gets my goat is when people pretend to be stupid in order to take advantage of me in some way. After being in business for 23 years, I’ve seen my share of Faux Ignoramuses…
Sadly, some authors will fall for this type of scam.
“Because I hear so many horror stories about companies like this agency scamming authors (and yes, they approached me first!), I’m…”