Craft Chat Submitting to agents

[RK Wallis]

it’s difficult to know when to move on.

It gets easier, I promise : ) you just know.

 

[Aethalope]

The whole Royal Road, Inkitt, Webnovel brigade is increasingly becoming a predatory minefield. There was a recent hoo-ha on RR with a publisher called Shadowlight Press snapping up authors and plying them with contracts that included clauses like:

An irrevocable 10-year grant of rights that demands every right in existence and renews to infinity
(source: Writers Beware)

Writers post their stuff for fun. Stuff gets popular and the publishers come knocking. Without someone whose job it is to know these things (e.g. an agent), it's difficult to identify predators.