https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:06:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/spotting-and-avoiding-pay-to-play-publishing-contracts/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/spotting-and-avoiding-pay-to-play-publishing-contracts/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:00:45 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19169 Susan Spann  In recent months, I’ve seen the resurgence of several terrible publishing “offers” that business-savvy authors should learn to recognize and avoid. Some people might call them “scams” – though these particular “deals” are legal if an author signs them. They remind me of my law school contracts professor’s warning that “you can make […]

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