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- boznzWith the whole ecosystem stacked against new and indie authors, and AI getting so good I can see why some people could easily fall for this. I made the tough decision at the start of my Sci-Fi novel writing career to work 100% on the book and 0% on the marketing. It meant I got zero traction and attention in the market (except by word of mouth), and I had to keep my day job, but totally took away all the stress and anxiety.When I retired last year I took the next logical step and now I give my eBooks away for free, being content with the fact I've achieved something good and I'm giving back to the community.
- cadamsdotcomThe need to defend against scams and abuse is a cost distributed across all of society - it’d be amazing if there were a way for all to share the costs without creating a giant firewall to wall off the bad countries.How does one take the good and reject the bad? Even our immune systems still get beaten by cancers.
- twentyfiveoh1Yog's law : Money should flow toward the authorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Macdonald
- helsinkiandrew> The catch, as you’ll doubtless have guessed, is that the author has to pay a fee for their appearance, variously described as a “spot fee” or a “spotlight fee” or a “spot-securing fee” or a “participation fee”.Am I being too naive to assume that legitimate book clubs shouldn't be doing this anyway - or is all online activity just a way of generating income now?
- TeaVMFanThanks for sharing this. New authors have enough challenges without getting scammed. I've written a (free) guide for the writing process here: https://frequal.com/forwriters/The writing is just the first step, however. Promotion is a whole another set of hurdles. I can easilybsee an eager or despondent author falling victim to a promotion scam.
- tarkin2Is it me or are those emails clearly understood to be AI generated?The grammatical usage and structures are a huge tell. Perfect and soulless.
- johneaThe main spam i get these days are "your cloud account has expired, pay immediately or you will loose your data".It's something telling about the internet when spam transitioned from Viagra to cloud computing 8-/
- ForOldHackGoogle? Wells Fargo? Are you LISTENING?
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- MaxPockSuch a retarded scam I doubt anyone would pay .