Avoiding Literary Agency & Poetry Contest Scams: A Writer's Resource
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Writing Scams Are Big Business - Take The Time To Research Before You Send Off That Poem Or Manuscript
How To Spot A Writing Scam
- P&E Warning List
- Preditors & Editors general rules for spotting scam publishers and scam literary agencies. There's also a list of hosting sites that have terms that threaten copyrights.
- What Real Agents Don't Do
- Blog entry listing things a real literary agent doesn't do by Writer Beware's Victoria Strauss.
- About Literary Agents
- How To Spot Dishonest Agents
Amateur, Incompetent, and Marginal Agents
Telling Questionable From Reputable
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fees - Agent Research & Evaluation's Agent Verification Search
- Research potential literary agents and agencies by searching for legitimate sales...
Or complaints.
Registration is required but the site and service are free. - AAR Canon of Ethics
- "...members may not charge clients or potential clients for reading and evaluating literary works and may not benefit, directly or indirectly, from the charging for such services by any other person or entity. The term "charge" in the previous sentence includes any request for payment other than to cover the actual cost of returning materials."
excerpt from the Association of Authors' Representatives, Inc., Canon of Ethics
The Worst Offenders
- Twenty Worst Literary Agencies
- "None of these agencies has a significant track record of sales to commercial (advance-paying) publishers...
...virtually no documented and verified sales at all...
...All charge clients before a sale is made--whether directly, by levying fees such as reading or administrative fees, or indirectly, for editing or other adjunct services."
Writer Beware
Research Before Submitting
- Caveat Scrivener
- CAVEAT SCRIVENER IS ON HIATUS.
Message board discussing dubious literary agents, literary agencies, publishers, contests, and vanity press, and best of all, you can ask questions. Invaluable resource.
The Single Most Important Rule About Writing
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Money goes TO the writer FROM the publisher, not the other way around.
That's it. The One Rule. You will <i>never</i> be asked to pay for being published by a legitimate publisher. They pay YOU, either in money (if they're publishing your book) or contributor's copies (if you're accepted into a magazine or anthology) or both.0 points
Writer's Market
Legitimate publishing markets.
2009 Writer's Market
Amazon Price: $21.59 (as of 12/16/2009) 
2009 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market (Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market)
Amazon Price: $20.15 (as of 12/16/2009)
2009 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market (Novel and Short Story Writer's Market)
Amazon Price: $18.47 (as of 12/16/2009)
Writer's Homework: How Publishing Really Works
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How Real Publishing Works - Absolute Write Water Cooler
What to expect when legitimate publishers acquire manuscripts, edit, copy edit, proof, publicize, and ask for rights to your work.0 points
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Agents: A Three Part Series by Laura Resnick
"Now, if you learn nothing else about agents for the rest of your life, please at least remember this one absolutely essential piece of informati...0 points
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Wyrdsmiths: A Writer's Index to Making Light
A Writers Index to Making Light (2001-2006)0 points
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Publishing Scams Guestbook
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- anndouglas anndouglas Jun 16, 2007 @ 11:26 am
- Would you consider adding this lens to the "Authors" group? You have a lot of valuable information here.
- Ann
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- KCStargazer KCStargazer Mar 22, 2007 @ 9:46 am
- Excellent info for anyone in the literary arts! Thanks for putting this together. A warm welcome to Squid Ink: Art of the Sea Pen Writers Group. It's great to have you there!
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