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
So if you haven’t heard by now publisher Bloomsbury AGAIN put a white girl on the cover of a book starring a dark skinned woman. They’ve done it before with the excuse that “covers with black people don’t sell” (I’m sure there are many AA fiction authors that beg to differ, and Bloomsbury, what about … Continue reading
Updated with more links. If, for some reason, you haven’t heard yet romance megalith Harlequin announced this week that they are opening a self-publishing branch of their company. This is so very wrong, but don’t just believe me. Here’s a short index of who is saying what: Mystery Writer Allison Brennan Writer Beware Nora Roberts … Continue reading
