Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Insecure Writer’s Support Group Day and Writing/Marketing Scams


It’s time for another group posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group! Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic. If you’d like to join us, click on the tab above and sign up. We post the first Wednesday of every month. We encourage everyone to visit at least a dozen new blogs and leave a comment. Your words might be the encouragement someone needs.

The awesome co-hosts for the February 4 posting of the IWSG are J Lenni Dorner, Victoria Marie Lees, and Sandra Cox!


February 4 question - Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you?

Marketing Scams

A lot of marketing scams are out there, eager to take advantage of unsuspecting people. Writers and authors need to become familiar with them and avoid their pitfalls:

From Tod Newman - When AI Becomes a Weapon: The Rise of Sophisticated Book Marketing Scams

Anne R. Allen has a couple recent articles -
Update on those Flattering AI Book Marketing Scams
New Scam Alert for Authors

From Rod Raglin - New sophisticated publishing scam targets struggling authors on Amazon

And from Writer Beware, their top writing scams of 2005. There are a lot!

Keep on top of the information and don’t get taken!

Are there any other scams or sites warning writers that we should know about?

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