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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?
8 comments:
Yes, we have to watch out for scams. Even though I'm not published, I get a lot of scam emails from people offering to help me market my book.
I've been seeing this on the agent's websites that' I'm querying to. Thanks for the links.
On Writer Beware, change 2005 to 2025 and then delete this comment.
I acquired a new domain name recently (https://christianunity.net). I don't think they are all scams, but I sure got a lot of text messages, phone calls, and emails offering to help me develop a website. I talked at length to one guy in India. He seemed legit.
The internet is kind of the next generation of scams. Previous generations where the mail system and the telephone. I guess you can thrown in any form of communication. I wonder if there were scam smoke signals and cave paintings?
Good info on scamming. Thanks to you and the authors of the articles for sharing this.
Good alert, Alex. I'm going to add one marketing scams to our Marketing tab.
Thanks for the info on scams. It's always smart to be on top of the latest ones.
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