It boggles the mind. As I posted how can a reporter fall for PA???? If you do your proper reserch you can't fail to find MILLIONS of posts and evedence agents PA.
It boggles the mind. As I posted how can a reporter fall for PA???? If you do your proper reserch you can't fail to find MILLIONS of posts and evedence agents PA.
If you're too close to your subject, you can lose objectivity. I suspect that's what happened in this case.
I guess, and the "OMG they exepted me" can cloud your judgment as well.
Yeah, it's damn sad, all right. And maddening.Seriously, does no one in the reporting business do their homework anymore? I realize that times are changing, but credibility and research should still count for something.
FWIW, I posted a link to my "Pursuit of Publishing" booklet, which can arm aspiring book authors against the scams and put them in a position to at least know what questions to ask and where to turn for meaningful answers. (A couple of pages of the booklet specifically expose PA's shenanigans.)Yeah, it's damn sad, all right. And maddening.
I started to compose a long point-by-point criticism of Ms Pinion-White and then decided, what's the use? . . .
Vanity publishers often left authors with boxes and boxes of unedited books, offering no cover design and no help in getting the product sold.
You made two funnies. I took it as a sexist slur, as in she is more than an opinion piece.This is more of an opinion piece. Hey. I made a funny. Oh, she discovered something, so wrote an oh-Pinion piece.
Neil
Vanity publishers often left authors with boxes and boxes of unedited books, offering no cover design and no help in getting the product sold.
Is that link working for everyone else?
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Thank you,
The "boxes of books" thing is becoming fairly common as a way of making a (faux) distinction between different kinds of fee-charging publishers. I've seen a number of fee-based publishers deny they are vanity publishers because they use POD and thus don't saddle authors with a garage full of books.
- Victoria