Victoria Strauss
@victoriastrauss
Novelist, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Mostly off X as of 1/1/24; find me at @victoriastrauss on BlueSky & Threads
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Hi, Jilanne Hoffmann met her April 1 deadline.... -- could you please reach out to me (Writer Beware) via DM or email ([email protected] )? Thanks so much!
Hey, writers! A startup called Dashtoon (webcomic creation platform) is approaching authors w/ license offers. #WriterBeware would love to see a contract, so if you've been offered one & are willing to share (in confidence), please email [email protected]. Thanks! #WritingCommunity
It was my absolute honor to contribute this piece to #WriterBeware .
If you haven't found Victoria Strauss' invaluable site yet, get on it. She strives to protect the #WritingCommunity .
#PipelineWriters #writerslife #writersoftwitter
New at #WriterBeware : Book-to-film scams are everywhere these days. How to protect yourself? Know the process. Today's guest blog post from Jeanne Veillette Bowerman will help: How a Book REALLY Becomes a Movie writerbeware.blog/2024/04/12/gue…
Victoria Strauss #dreamspinnerpress were given TWO pandemic loans totaling $258,000, inc one for 'New Single-Family Housing Construction' when they're a publisher who profited during the pandemic. They STILL haven't paid authors. projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/ba…
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Great thread on how to unmask a fake agency. Couldn't have done it better myself! #WriterBeware
Fake agency alert: stolen 'agent' photos, fake agent bios, no evidence of sales, generic blather rather than substantive, verifiable info about the company. Scammer standard, in other words. #WriterBeware
New #WriterBeware blog post: Do you need a special 'book license' or an 'international book seal' in order to publish your book? Nope. But scammers want to sell them to you anyway. A look at a very common and very deceptive scam #WritingCommunity writerbeware.blog/2024/04/05/the…
New #WriterBeware blog post: To CCB or Not to CCB: The Question is Still Out. A little over a year and a half after establishment of the Copyright Claims Board, Writer Beware's Michael Capobianco takes a look at how it's doing #WritingCommunity writerbeware.blog/2024/03/22/to-…
.Pande Literary You are being impersonated by a scammer looking to sell bogus services to writers--see the email solicitation below, of which I've seen several examples #WriterBeware
New #WriterBeware blog post:Impersonation scams are increasingly common: lit agents, publishers, movie companies & more. Introducing the Impersonation List: all the impersonated companies & individuals Writer Beware has identified to date #WritingCommunity writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/the…
Harper’s Magazine does not have any kind of relationship with the entity calling itself FFS Global Portal. #writerbeware
Guidelines for manuscript submissions can be found here:
harpers.org/about/submissi…
.Dar Al Muna please contact me (Writer Beware); I have reason to believe that a scammer is making false publishing offers in your name. DM me or email: [email protected] Thank you!
New #WriterBeware blog post: Author Complaints at City Owl Press about a wide variety of issues spark multiple rights reversions, unusually public statements by affected authors, and response by the publisher #WritingCommunity writerbeware.blog/2024/03/08/aut…
New #WriterBeware blog post: Outrage Over New Terms of Use at Findaway Voices Forces Change. A look at the controversy that roiled social media over the weekend #WritingCommunity #Audiobooks writerbeware.blog/2024/02/19/out…
New #WriterBeware blog post: The Scam of Book Returns Insurance. Scammers have spun the reality of (print) book returnability into a fictional product sold for exorbitant fees and incentivized w/ fake promises #WritingCommunity #Publishing #SelfPublishing writerbeware.blog/2024/02/16/the…
