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Watch out for book to film scams (This week in books)

June 17, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! First up, we continue to live in a golden age for scammers, and Anne R. Allen has an important post about a new, more polished publishing trap: the book to film scam, where a “film scout” suggests you pay for a new screenplay or treatment so they can shop it to streaming […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, Anne R. Allen, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Elizabeth A. Harris, Ian Bogost, literary agents, Scams

Watch out for these publishing scams (This week in books)

January 15, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 6 Comments

This week! Books! Well. It was a week. How are we doing out there? Publishing scams are pretty much as old as publishing, and they’re proliferating in our digital and gullible age. Anne. R. Allen has a good roundup of publishing scams to watch out for in 2021, including new ones (manuscript phishing!) and old […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angie Thomas, Anne R. Allen, Confederacy of Dunces, George Saunders, Jane Friedman, Janet Reid, Lincoln Michel, Scams

Publishing scams to watch out for (This week in books)

February 21, 2020 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

This week! Books! There are so many publishing scams out there it’s hard to keep track of them, but Anne R. Allen has a really great post on 10 new publishing scams to watch out for in 2020. Be careful out there, people! The Authors Guild released its 2020 report on the writing and publishing […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Anne R. Allen, Barack Obama, Fanfic, Future of Publishing, Jessica Faust, Scams

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