If you support a service, be sure that your marketing strategy is in line with the ethos of that service.
scam
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It must be fraud week for me or something… my experience with a text job scam
It’s my week for scammers! Yesterday I got texts from a guy claiming to represent a company (which he didn’t) trying to hire me for a position that […]
scam
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And look, I’m getting e-mails from Grammarly asking me to take down pages again!
If you’ve been around for a couple of years, you might remember when I talked about Grammarly. My review of the service was that it wasn’t worth the […]
business of writing / scam / scams / writing
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Pay for a novel-writing course! Get a certificate (but apparently, not a novel….)!
I swear, sometimes I wish I didn’t have ethics. Because then I could guilt-free do crap like this: This $331.81 value (snarf choke cough) can be had for […]
awards / scam / scams
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Authors and Publishers: Paying for Awards is CRAP.
Okay folks, it’s award season again. And while there’s all sorts of shenanigans going on with the Sad Puppies and the Hugos (Jim Hines and Chuck Wendig say […]
digital publishing / kickstarter / publishing / scam / scams / self-publishing
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I Wish It Was “Or What?!”: Vanity Publishing has Found Kickstarter.
I’m not sure if this project actually violates Kickstarter’s guidelines, but it sure as heck violates my ethical crowdfunding standards: Yes, that’s right. “Backers, submit your story & […]