There’s been some Internet buzz over the past few days about an apparent scam in which an unknown individual, posing as agent Jodi Reamer of uber-agency Writers House, targeted an unsuspecting author with a fake representation offer, followed by a fake high-advance contract offer from a major publishing house, all in the space of a few hours.

If you thought that Judge Denny Chin’s denial of the Google Book Settlement last March was the end of that story, you were wrong.

When publishing relationships go bad, the writing was often on the wall long before the author signed on the dotted line.