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Tuesday news - more bad behaviour

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Blog - The Author Business

 
 
I linked to a writer beware article last week on a new publishing business that has sprung up. Writer Beware has long been a fantastic site and information tool for exposing dodgy business practices and people, companies, practices and opportunities that authors should generally avoid. This kind of behaviour obviously earns enemies, and Writer Beware has finally gotten theirs: The Write Agenda, now waging a disinformation campaign against Writer Beware and any other writer-education centre. A lot of writers have since been put on the "boycott" list of TWA - generally, anyone with a lick of sense who either supports Writer Beware or some similar initiative.

Don't believe their nonsense. 

In other dodgy news, yet another publishing company has turned up, this time targeting agents whose clients have backlist ready to go up. The publisher will take agented manuscripts, format for ebook and upload, and collect a tidy amount of profit before passing on a royalty, of which the agent (of course) gets a share. Passive Guy (the lawyer-blogger with a lot of useful stuff to say about our industry) has a great post analysing the pros and cons, and pointing out the (hopefully bloody obvious by now) conflict of interest on the horizon with this practice. Sigh.

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