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Grand Theft Lettuce

Warning to writers

While you are worrying about whether beta readers will steal your ideas, there is a more genuine threat on the horizon.

When offered a publishing contract, please do all your research before you sign. There are a number of fakes and scammers out there, as well as good-intentioned amateurs that don’t know how to get your work to a wide audience. I won’t tell the heartbreaking stories here - there are too many.

Being published badly is worse than being never published.

It can destroy your career and your dreams.

The quick check is to google the publishing house name + scam or warning.

But, to be sure, check with these places first. They aren’t infallible (nothing is) but they can help you protect yourself. They are written and maintained by expereinced writers, editors, publishers and legal folks.

Absolute Write: Bewares and Background Checks

Preditors and editors

Writer Beware

and the WRITER BEWARE blog

Keep yourself and your work safe.

This is really important, so if you are a writer or have writer friends, or you are a writing blog, please reblog it.

[rosey-buddy]

Just to let you know, PublishAmerica changed their name to America Star Books.

[lunamax1214]

HEAD’S UP, WRITER TYPES: THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PSA!

[oldmanyellsatcloud]

Also applies to many so-called freelance sites that are just content mills, and may not pay unless your work is used, even if the contract seems designed otherwise.

[konekat]

Listen, reading these is like legit reading horror stories.  When it comes to publishing your writing, always, always, ALWAYS do your research.  Not only will it help you avoid scams, but it will also be likely to help you land a much better fit for an agent/publisher/whatever.  Knowing more is never going to hurt.

[glorious74-deactivated20181211]

Omg!!! Thanks for the warning! Writers— reblog!

[thegirlwiththebook]

I’ve heard stories like this that are scarier than horror stories. This is an all time worst nightmare for a writer. Everyone reblog and make sure you keep your work safe! 

[the960writers]

Always, ALWAYS check Writer Beware. Let me also recommend Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s blog about contracts and contract scams for authors in her section Business Musings.

[more-legit-gr8er-writing-tips]

Reblogging again for the links. Also check pred-ed.com and the Absolute Write forum. Then google Publisher’s name + scam and see what comes up. Do NOT use the BBB ratings, they are wholly unsuitable for rating publishers and regularly give A ratings to well-known publishing scams. You can also read my own post on publishing scams, have a link on the left of my blog ( can’t link here, I’m on mobile, sorry).

[bodaciousbanshee-deactivated202]

@korrigu

[breelandwalker]

SUPER IMPORTANT PSA!

Equally important to know is that you can SELF-PUBLISH through a number of platforms these days. @ean-amhran and I used Amazon’s CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing to publish both of our books. No editors, no contracts, no finagling with publishers who want to change your materials. Just direct-to-market material.

(Granted, it means you’ve got to do a LOT more work yourself with editing and formatting and cover art, but it’s worth it to miss the headache of trying to bargain with publishing houses or avoid scams.)

Be vigilant, fellow writers!

[jenniferrpovey]

If you choose to self publish then HAVE A PLAN and think things through.

And hire an editor. Please, for the love of all that is holy, hire an editor. It’s expensive, but you will get a better book out, a better reputation…

[athelind]

If you’re going to publish electronically, make sure you also get someone who can LAY AN EBOOK OUT PROPERLY.

I have spent money on Kindle books, many of them reprints of older works, whose formatting is so messed up as to render them unreadable.

[jenniferrpovey]

I actually recommend using the Smashwords Style Guide even if you don’t use Smashwords.

It lays out how to neatly format an e-book in a wonderful step by step format, and you can get it free from Smashwords. Just leave off the couple of things that are (very obviously) Smashwords specific.

If you can’t stand dealing with the meticulous detail, then by all means hire somebody, but most people can learn to format an ebook correctly and once you’ve done it a couple of times it takes about an hour tops.

[freshest-tittymilk]

@ghdos spread the knowledge

[vorpalgirl]

Because the redirects aren’t working for me, I’m going to assume others might have trouble with these links, so for those who need it the URL for the website to Writer Beware is: www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/ As stated on here: “Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, with additional support from the Mystery Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.” These are not publishers’ guilds, notice; you sometimes see scammers trying to defend themselves against Writer Beware exposes by claiming that they’re “small press” or “indie” and Big Publishing is somehow out to get them - but all of those guilds are run by and for writers, to help support them and represent them in the field. It is the closest writers have to having unions, and there’s no direct competition between them (you could literally be an in any of those guilds are the same time as each other, in addition to others, and I believe a number of authors are).

Writer Beware is a wonderful resource, and I highly recommend it. It’s both a good general guide to the scams people run/red flags to watch out for (such as giving up your copyright entirely as opposed to specific rights, or being charged to publish something or have it edited, when they’re trying to act like they’re a “normal” publisher), and a frequently-updated list of the latest specific known scammers, both in “fake agents” and fake/scammy publishers categories. (The company formerly known as Publish America is one of the most famous and egregious cases, but by far not the only one)

Additionally, for SF and fantasy writers, the SFWA’s own list of qualifying markets that one can be published in as a prerequisite to be able to get into their guild (remember, it IS a profession-based guild), is a great guide to normal markets for those genres that have standard contracts that aren’t abusive or scammy, and their guidelines include some of the industry-standard minimums for “per word” etc rates, so even if some new magazine market isn’t on their list, you can tell if it’s suspiciously far outside the usual per-word or whatnot standards. (It’s likely the guidelines for Mystery Writers of America etc also would be useful in that vein) Even if you’re unpublished or don’t want to join their guild, they’re a wonderful group and resource, and I highly recommend their site and Writer Beware in particular! The other sites mentioned above, such as “Preditors and Editors” should be still valid if you Google them, and are often rec’d by Writer Beware, but Writer Beware is the one I’m most familiar with. :)

[hookslovelyswan]

Also, you should never have to pay an agent or anyone a  “reading fee”! DO NOT PAY PEOPLE TO READ YOUR WORK!!! Run away from so-called agents that charge a reading fee! They are considered unethical in their own industry!

Also related to agents: Should you go this route and seek one, DO NOT PAY ONE DIME TO THEM upfront! A real agent only gets paid when he sells your book to a publisher! The average cut is about 10-15% of the first sale profits, if I remember right, with cuts of film and other rights maybe being more, when sold. At most, writers should only be responsible for the costs of phone calls and postage.

For more information see: How Literary Agents Get Paid. Standard Commission Practices and Payments for Literary Agents

Edited to Add: Some other great, highly respected resources for writing and getting published are:

Writer’s Digest

The Writer

Writer’s Market

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FREE & SAFE DOWNLOAD FOR PHOTOSHOP CC Like/reblog if using. ** This link will take you to dropbox where you can download it. ** Once you download it, it should be right in your downloads folder. It’s called “Photoshop CC Setup”. ** Double click on it to open it, and scroll down until you see “Photoshop”. Click and choose to “extract all”. ** Another window will pop up. Just click “extract”. This may take a little while. ** When it’s done, go back to your downloads, and you should now see two folders called “Photoshop CC Setup”. You can delete the zipped one. Keep the other. ** Go into the one you kept, and scroll down until you see “Photoshop”. It should now have a little PS icon beside it. ** Right click on it, and choose to “run as administrator”. Click “yes” and Photoshop CC should open and work from now on. ** You need to keep that entire folder with Photoshop in it. I just keep mine in my documents. You can right click on that “Photoshop” and send it to your desktop so that you can always find it with ease. But don’t drag it out of the folder and onto your desktop. Once it leaves that folder, it no longer works. Enjoy! ♥ -Sookie Cookie

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random thing but i realized it might be helpful for some people so uh. theres this thingy where you can upload an image and it gives you a color palette based on it ! 

heres an example

and it also gives you the hex code values for them too its p neat !

here’s the link to the website !

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[champagnemanagement]

i need some victory today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hoursgoneby]

Some days you just need a velociraptor on your side.

[jordisstigander]

“It might be nice, it might be nice,

To have a velociraptor on your side”

[quiteliterallyhotsauce]

I’m ready

[mcapriglioneart]

how to draw arms ? ? 

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[pinapple-jumpsuit]

YO ON SOME ANIME SHIT THIS DOPE AF!!!!

[sweepsheep]

Some loser: Wrestling is fake Me: Explain THIS Loser: Holy shit

[herelieslill-deactivated2022041]

i’m so delighted that tumblr found out about this match, because lord have mercy, twitter was losing its shit over it

[tonightweredrinkingfromthebong]

[mayothompson]

this guy is from an alternate timeline

[dicknurse]

“…what”

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[elliehopaunt-deactivated2025073]

worth watching for the end

[uglyassbinch420]

yo what tHE FUCK ¡

[catgirl9696]

Interesting fact these two are playing but they are using play behaviors of their own species so they dont really “match up”!

Dog - is “bowing” and using open mouth “bites” as forms of play

“Play fight with me!”

Cat - is giving the little paw bats they use when playing with kittens

“Cute kittens get booped!”

They are both trying to engage the other in a playful way but not understanding the others responce.

The dog is like “you smack so no play? but not hard smack and no bad noise so not angry?”

The cat is like “why you jump around? open mouth but no chomp? no hiss so is okay?”

And then they sort of settle with a kind of communal grooming gesture they both understand!

Dog: no play? okay i lay… we calm now friend!

Cat: sad? no play? is ok i luv u weird kitten!

[neonperri]

I like how the dog recognizes that the cat is getting a little upset when the dog gets a little too energetic (her ears are halfway back and her tail is lashing); he immediately settles down on the ground and waits for her to make the next move. Which she does, because she’s comfortable again. This is absolutely a classic example of competing body language in cats and dogs, but also a really good look at how they can learn to read each other.

[thebookwormfairy]

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In urgent need of money for vet bills!

Warning: potential TW for sick guinea pig pictures below

Hey guys so I hate to do this but I need to ask for donations/commissions so I can take my two guinea pigs to the vet, the boy pictured overhead is Clay he is only 2 months old and is showing signs of URI. Due to the epidemic I am currently unable to work due to quarentine and I need to get them in IMMEDIANTLY or I fear the worst.

Here is a link to my commissions sheet, and my ko-fi for donations. If you cannot donate please share this, I am so scared for my boys.

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UPDATE: My boys went back to the store to be cared for by their free vet, I am to hear more about them tommorrow. I am still nervous about them, I hope they come back to me with the supplies to help them get better.

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UPDATE UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who donated and spread the word, as far as I know my boys are doing well now. No need to spread this anymore, they have gotten the help they needed :)

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In urgent need of money for vet bills!

Warning: potential TW for sick guinea pig pictures below

Hey guys so I hate to do this but I need to ask for donations/commissions so I can take my two guinea pigs to the vet, the boy pictured overhead is Clay he is only 2 months old and is showing signs of URI. Due to the epidemic I am currently unable to work due to quarentine and I need to get them in IMMEDIANTLY or I fear the worst.

Here is a link to my commissions sheet, and my ko-fi for donations. If you cannot donate please share this, I am so scared for my boys.

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UPDATE: My boys went back to the store to be cared for by their free vet, I am to hear more about them tommorrow. I am still nervous about them, I hope they come back to me with the supplies to help them get better.

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In urgent need of money for vet bills!

Warning: potential TW for sick guinea pig pictures below

Hey guys so I hate to do this but I need to ask for donations/commissions so I can take my two guinea pigs to the vet, the boy pictured overhead is Clay he is only 2 months old and is showing signs of URI. Due to the epidemic I am currently unable to work due to quarentine and I need to get them in IMMEDIANTLY or I fear the worst.

Here is a link to my commissions sheet, and my ko-fi for donations. If you cannot donate please share this, I am so scared for my boys.

[freyacommissions]

hi, i hate asking for help but this is a bit urgent.

my dog just puked up orange bile and had blood in her stool - she’s been sick for a while, and i was able to get her on antibiotics but this is actually worse now? i’m scared for her. idk how much the exams are but getting her checked out is 63 USD.

the meds i got last time wer about 30 USD. so i think i need a little more over a hundred to check her out. plus uber money, and i have literally 1 dollar in my paypal. 

i know this is a lot to ask but i don’t know where else to really go. she’s a good pup, and eleven years old. google keeps scaring me with intestinal bleeding and if that’s the case i can’t delay that. please help if you can, even sharing helps a lot.

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/cheyenne68

https://venmo.com/Cheyenne78

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Important update

Okay guys, so I’ll try to make this short and sweet. I recently entered a relationship with my dear friend of a year @fightfearwithfun, but we are separated by about 2,173 miles. We are trying to earn enough money to get her a plane ticket to come visit me, ideally the money we raise would be like $3,000? Which is a lot so I am tentatively extending my reach to you guys.

I am opening up commissions to help fund this trip, and anxiously setting out a donation jar here: https://ko-fi.com/T6T1NWYZ

Buy Kroxn a Coffee. ko-fi.com/krotheflare

Buy a Coffee for Kroxn with Ko-fi.com

Every little bit helps, every commission helps, every reblog helps. We are two queers ( me homo-romantic and her bisexual ) in love, and we want to actually meet face to face just like anyone would.

Thank you for your time, I hope you all have a lovely day and are able to spend time with someone you love today!