Publishing Scammer Pleads Guilty
The Small Press Blog posted a link to an article about someone pleading guilty in a publishing scam. It seems Martha Ivery, who advertised in Writer’s Digest and on the ‘net, stands accused of bilking 200 would-be authors of something like a total $700,000. (That works out to $3,500 per author average!)
According to the article, Ivery was running a fee-charging agency scam that collected fees but rarely, if ever, placed a book with a publisher. In addition to billing her clients, she stalked them when they didn’t pay.
Most scams don’t go as far as stalking, but no truly reputable literary agency charges a fee. Writers beware!
Write well and often,
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