About Us
Mission
Who we are, what we do, and why. Includes information on how to contact us.
Overview and Site Map
What you’ll find on the Writer Beware® website.
Writer Beware®
- Contests and Awards
- Copyright
- Editors and Editing Services
- Literary Agents
- Miscellaneous “Bewares”
- Self-Publishing
- Small and Independent Publishers
- Vanity, Subsidy, and Hybrid Publishers
Legal Recourse and Other Remedies
What do you do if you’ve been defrauded? We offer suggestions and resources for taking legal action, along with a variety of options for reporting to the authorities and filing complaints.
Scams in Action
Case studies of notable literary scams, including Edit Ink, Tate Publishing, Deering Literary Agency, Martha Ivery/Press-Tige Publishing, and more.
Writer Beware®: The Blog
To complement the general advice and warnings on the Writer Beware® website, the Writer Beware® blog provides up-to-the-minute information and alerts about a wide variety of scams and schemes–along with advice for writers, publishing industry news and commentary, and a special focus on the weird and wacky things that happen at the fringes of the publishing world.
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Contact Us
We accept complaints about publishers, literary agents, editors, and others, and maintain an extensive archive of documentation on companies and individuals who engage in the questionable and/or fraudulent practices we warn about on this website. Reach out to us at beware@sfwa.org.
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