@victoriastrauss.comNew #WriterBeware blog post: Another entry in the annals of publishers behaving badly: fee-charging Australian children's publisher Starfish Bay Publishing, which has failed to honor oblilgations & now has gone dark.
Nearly 200 authors are affected (so far)
@victoriastrauss.comNew #WriterBeware blog post: Two artists' decisions to go public this week reveal new concerns at Must Read Magazines, which was the subject of controversy last year over its unfriendly contract terms
@gothicscifibooks.shop#WriterBeware publishes a list of companies and emails associated with publishing scam. The list is mindboggling long. And it "only" includes overseas scammers. Prepare to scrolllllllllll -> buff.ly/vhhyQmH ✍️
Thank you, @victoriastrauss.com, for everything you do for the writing community.
@corneliaamiri.bsky.socialHow Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h... #writerbeware #AIscamemails
@victoriastrauss.comNew #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book.
Here's a little peek at how it's done.
@victoriastrauss.comNew #WriterBeware blog post: One writer sued their scammer...and won.
The case provides a revealing window into the techniques scammers use to bleed their victims dry, and how they hide behind webs of corrupt businesses and forests of fake names,
@angleonwriting.bsky.socialThis week @victoriastrauss.com of Writer Beware, talks about the increasingly sophisticated scams targeting authors. She also touches on the Anthropic copyright settlement issues affecting authors.
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#WriterBeware #PublishingScams #WritingCommunity #Authors #Publishing
@corneliaamiri.bsky.social#AnthropicCopyrightSettlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on #Authors' Payouts writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/a... #WriterBeware