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		<title>Publishing Contracts 101: Beware Internal Contradications</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It should probably go without saying that you don't want your publishing contract to include clauses that contradict one another.  Beyond any potential legal implications, internal contradictions suggest a publisher that either doesn't understand its o...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Bad Contract Alert: Stary (aka Dreame)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posted by&#160;Victoria Strauss&#160;for&#160;Writer Beware®This is another in my series of blog posts about serial reading/writing app contracts (you can see all of them here).&#160;This time the subject is Stary (official name: Stary Pte Ltd, based i...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Author Complaints at GenZ Publishing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Strauss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®GenZ Publishing is “on a mission to bring new authors to the world.” Founded in 2015 by Morissa Schwartz&#160;when she was just out of college, GenZ&#160;publishes&#160;a wide range of genre fiction, as well...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The Writer Beware Blog Has Moved!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Strauss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®The Writer Beware blog has a new home!After many years on the Blogger platform, we have finally transitioned to WordPress, which offers much greater flexibility in terms of design, control, and ease of use.&#38;...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Bad Contract Alert: Popink</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Strauss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®&#160;Are you sick of my contract warnings about reading/writing apps yet?&#160;Honestly I'm not even sure who I'm aiming these posts at. They go right over the heads of many of the writers who could benefit...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Another Fake Agency Referral Scam: Harper Literary / Bantam Wings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 18:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®As if the querying game weren't hard enough, writers increasingly need to watch out for fake agents/agencies.&#160;These fakes are set up by scammers as fronts for referral schemes. The aim is to draw the wr...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Bad Contract Alert: GoodNovel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Strauss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®This is another in my series of posts about author-unfriendly contracts from reading/writing apps and platforms. (Previous installments: EMP Entertainment and A&#38;D Entertainment, Fizzo (formerly Fictum), ...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Wattpad Contest Controversy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Strauss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®Last week on Twitter, I was contacted by a writer with concerns about the official rules for Wattpad's Open Novella Contest 2022. Specifically, this clause:This is incredibly writer-unfriendly. Prize winners...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>How to Spot a Ghostwriting Scam</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Strauss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®In 2018, I wrote a post that, in part, warned about a solicitation from an obviously dodgy "ghostwriting" service (one big clue: the mangled English everywhere on its website).&#160;With a bit of digging, I ...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Pink Sand Press: What Can Happen When Your Agent Decides to Become Your Publisher</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Strauss]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware®Last week, several people drew my attention to this article in the Des Moines Register. "Iowa Romance Writer Sues Over Efforts to Have Ghostwriter Take Over Series."&#160;If your "conflict of interest" radar...]]></description>
		
		
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