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Your writing community can help you do many things, like finish your novel or publish your next article. Now, they can help you bust the bad guys.
The Internet crawling with writing scams. Over at Writer Beware, novelist Victoria Strauss and others blog about the pitfalls of self-publishing, debunking myths about the profitability and popularity of our humble profession.
Today the site printed an inspiring story about a bunch of writers who banded together to sue the pants off scammers. This will be today's Dose of Writing Reality:
"The Empty Canoe victims, who encouraged each other to gather together their documentation, file complaints, and not give up, was crucial to the Canus being brought to justice. Similar victim networks brought down Commonwealth Publications and the Deering Literary Agency. This should give hope to the authors who are currently uniting against Airleaf. Believe it or not, The Empty Canoe's website is still online."
FIVE different A2-size posters with illustrations by Joan Rankin, Marjorie van Heerden, Samantha van Riet, Piet Grobler and Paddy Bouma will be for sale at the SCBWI Stand at the Cape Town Book Fair 2007 @ R30.00 each. Avoid disappointment and pre-order one or more posters by e-mailing [email protected].
Click on the picture below to view the posters.
We've all heard the old Nigerian money laundering scam about a bazillion kazillion times. It's as if the spammers believe that if you
juuust manage to send someone the same e-mail for the two-hundredth time then they HAVE to believe you! Less well-known, but even more clever, is a scam being perpetuated on perfectly nice artists out there. Bruce Andrew McKay (BAM) has the skinny on his blog
bigcatheads. He writes:
Here's how it works. It's a variation on the ol' Nigerian email scam. You will receive an email from out of country. The writer will be very complimentary of your work and will request prices for a multiple piece purchase. In my case it was for 4 paintings totaling $7000. They will often present themselves as successful business people who are looking to buy artwork for their new home.
He goes on to give, in detail, how the scammer sent him an International check for an amount higher than the one they spoke about. Then the weirdness began. It actually makes for
fascinating reading, especially since McKay's no dummy and the scammer undoubtedly was. People who've been contacted by this guy have sometimes been featured on the
Drawn blog, so bear all this in mind if your book or art has appeared there recently.
Many thanks to
Drawn for the link. Also check out McKay's
paintings which are, I have to admit, rather charming.
