Read this story about a badly misbehaving publisher. Notice how there were warning signs, you know, like the fact that the antho doesn’t pay at all, not even a contributor copy. Also notice the completely crappy quality of covers (and editing) that’s typical for the press. Now for good measure google the owner of the … Continue reading
I’ve been working my way through BookLife by Jeff Vandermeer. It’s slow going because I’m marking up the pages, underlining important passages and adding in my own remarks. I have never written in a book like this before, but the experience is so immersive that it’s helping quite bit to work some of my own … Continue reading
Well, not you. This guy, who sent me a spam mail today. Now I get a lot of forced adds to newsletters, ads for books in my inbox and even a few queries (as in “Will you publish my book” not “might you be interested in reviewing my book”). Normally I just delete. Often I … Continue reading
Just passing on the heads up. Recently on a thread concerning a new exposure-paying online zine at Shocklines it was also revealed that the owner/editor also ran another zine under another name and had been known to act pretty peculiar. To make things worse someone else came onto the thread and revealed the editor had been … Continue reading
No, not fighting with reviewers or engaging in flame wars on message boards. Today I gotta talk about a different kind of bad PR, because even though I’ve talked about it before (but I can’t find the post, so I guess I can’t fault readers for not finding it either). I’m a member of more … Continue reading
..suck. No really, I’ve always thought so. Sting submissions are when a person or persons submits a purposefully fake submission in order to prove some point. The most famous is Atlanta Nights, a purposefully horrid, repetitive and nonsensical novel submitted to PublishAmerica to prove they’d publish any work sent to them. You’ve probably also heard … Continue reading
