Return of the Nigerian Prince: A New Twist on Book Marketing Scams - Writer Beware 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 scam–the “friendly author” social media scam, in which som...

I nearly got caught out the first time I encountered one of these. Since then I've been getting messages like it almost daily. #scamalert #writersscommunity #booksky #bookscams
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The short story should make a grand comeback in electronic form. People spend so much time on their phones and not in the pages of books. It's an opportunity to amaze them should they stumble upon it with their browsing.

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