Book Festival Scams, Interview Fakes: Two New AI-Driven Impersonation Scams to Avoid

Have you recently received an email invitation to be a featured guest at a book festival or conference event? Or to be interviewed on a radio show or podcast? Literary agents, publishers, and major production companies don’t typically cold-call authors. That unexpected “endorsement” from Amazon Studios, or expression of interest from a Big 5 editor, Read More
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#AIscams #ArtificialIntelligence #Impersonation #NigerianAIscams #Solicitation

The Two Faces of Woodside Motion Co.

Last spring, I began hearing from writers who’d received the email below. (Note the phrase I’ve highlighted; you will see it again.) Judging by the number of reports I received, as well as this lengthy Facebook discussion thread (which includes responses from Woodside), a lot of these emails were going out. Emails received later in Read More
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#BooktoFilm #ReferralSchemes #Solicitation

For millions, perhaps billions of reasons as yet unknown, rain has an effect so like silence.

As each and every raindrop plays it's own note, so the orchestra of rainfall voices out in hordes, each voice drowning out the one before, and is drowned out after.

The only thing sadder than this individuality gone, at speeds faster than the crazy rush of thought, is how the laugh dies, in peals and gales and cackles, so soon before being born.
#SlowDaze #Solicitation #ProudMary #PoetryUnwelcome

DC Comics has released Solicitation information and preview covers for new comics shipping in January 2026.

See: https://comixnow.com/2025/10/25/dc-comics-solicitations-for-january-2026/

#DCComics #Solicitation #January2026

Marvel December 2025 solicitations: Legacy, Hunt, Knights, Wars, Red

#Solicitations #StarWars #FanthaTracks #solicitation #marvel

Make a note of the solicitations for December 2025.

Read the whole story at the below link:

https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/literature-art/marvel-december-2025-solicitations-legacy-hunt-knights-wars-red/?fsp_sid=41801

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace…
https://writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/return-of-the-nigerian-prince-redux-beware-book-club-and-book-review-scams

#MarketingScams #OverseasScams #Nigeria #Solicitation
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Return of the Nigerian Prince: A New Twist on Book Marketing Scams

Marketing scams have always been plentiful. Over the past year or so, though, they’ve really surged. I’ve written about one type of marketing…
https://writerbeware.blog/2025/08/01/return-of-the-nigerian-prince-a-new-twist-on-book-marketing-scams

#MarketingScams #OverseasScams #Solicitation
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When an Interview Isn’t Exactly What It Seems: NewYox Media and Its Suite of Magazines

A few months back, I began getting questions about emails like this one, from a UK-based…
https://writerbeware.blog/2025/07/11/when-an-interview-isnt-exactly-what-it-seems-newyox-media-and-its-suite-of-magazines

#VanityPublishingandPaytoPlay #Solicitation
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