Avoiding Publishing Scams
If you missed the previous episode ("Why bad things happen to good books") you can find it here.
Yes, publishing is a swamp. Most of this series will be devoted to explaining how cattails can be yummy and the ways that marshgrass is sometines kind of sweet, but I wanted to spend a little bit of time exploring the muckier part of the swamp first, in the interest of y'all not drowning. There is some solid ground in among the mud, but certain areas of publishing, especially vanity publishing and self-publishing, are especially prone to scams. Another area where scams are common is in fake literary agents, who prey on new writers' naivete about how publishing works.
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