Sentences with phrase «by a vanity press»

Looking at the list of previous winners in one contest site, I noticed that every book category had winners published by a vanity press with a shady and notorious reputation.

If the author had been approached by vanity presses with their promises of great sales, there is a good chance that they would have agreed.

With all the self - publishing options available to authors, how do so many authors still get sucked in by vanity presses?

Other authors may see this work published by a vanity press as a stepping stone to get a traditional publishing house's attention for a second work.

And they don't encourage authors whose works aren't good enough for traditional publishing to go get printed by those vanity presses.

The deals offered by vanity presses sounded incredible and authors couldn't help but visualize becoming rich and famous.

When this isn't the case, there is an unfortunate abuse of the system taking place, most often by vanity presses.

It was a field dominated by vanity presses that charged their authors a lot in order to be published.

The assumption that a work published by a vanity press is one that could not be published elsewhere nor be a commercial success is no longer automatically correct.

But lots of authors spend money on pricey promotion packages offered by vanity presses and get next to nothing for the thousands they spend.

Assuming you didn't get scammed by a vanity press that deducts an additional «publisher's» royalty, you probably make about $ 5 on each book.

How many contests does WD host each year that are sponsored by vanity presses like Outskirts Publishing?

Their contention was that Indie was a term coined by vanity presses to scam would - be clients into believing they were legitimate independent presses.

4 years ago people were curious about publishing, but scared by all the bad - mouthing they read in Writers Digest (funded largely by vanity presses) and by online wannabes.

At this point in time, most of this 30 % is being gobbled up by the vanity press model.

Writers get hosed by vanity presses every day.

Reviewers and bookstores generally won't touch books produced by vanity presses.

I can't tell you how many people I've come in contact with who are duped by vanity presses.

Have you ever been scammed by a vanity press, phony marketer, scammy editing service, or a bogus agency?

It's sad that so many writers don't take the time to learn about publishing before getting snookered in by these vanity presses.

Writer's Digest also hosts contests that are sponsored by vanity presses... contests that create the illusion that the winner will be published by a «real» publisher.

However, either the majority of self - publishers didn't read the fine print in the deals they were offered by vanity presses or they had little understanding about how vanity publishing worked.

I have to admit, that last part cracks me up — Can you imagine how annoying it would be to get «rejected» by a vanity press you were referred to?

Most of these slurs came out of a time when the majority of so - called self - published books were put out by vanity presses that preyed on the desire of the unwary to have a book with their name on it.

These include (but are not limited to) books published by vanity presses, self - published «zines», blogs, web forums, usenet discussions, personal social media, fan sites, vanity websites that permit the creation of self - promotional articles, and other similar venues.

It happens all too frequently that I come across an author who has been scammed by a vanity press or by a vendor that provides some type of author services.