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Hey all, I have a question: What do you count as one draft? For years, I counted "one draft" as one complete MS read through, whether structural changes or something else. Only this morning I decided that's too hard to track (it's always been...

Savannah Rose Whitaker... I've got emails from her in my trash bin as well. Lol

Savannah Rose Whitaker... I've got emails from her in my trash bin as well. Lol

Have you heard of negging? There are dudes teaching it gets girls, so of course someone is going to try it on writers who are all girl's blouses anyway. According to the dudes who neg.

Another Night in A&E (Part 1) by Rachel McCarron The Art of Waiting Back in March, I regaled you all with tales of the bizarre night time world of the emergency department. And last night, we were back for more. I was about an hour off...

Yes. I'm getting more and more of these types of emails and they all want $$ for promotion for old books. Here's one from yesterday: (What the hell does that first sentence even mean?). Hi James, I’ve been thinking about My War with Hemingway...

man, that is depressing. I have heard of that but assumed it was a movie/sitcom trope

Have you heard of negging? There are dudes teaching it gets girls, so of course someone is going to try it on writers who are all girl's blouses anyway. According to the dudes who neg.

"I've written over seventy novels" was the place I'd hit delete. If you've written that many novels, and I've never heard of you, and you've no awards to show for it, then you're either a shitty bot, or a shitty writer. It makes them sound like a...

Only answer possible. Dear Fecking Feck maggot, fecking go feck yourself, you fecking failed con artist feckwad.

"I've written over seventy novels": either she has and they're all unpublishable Madriani fan fiction or she's scribbled all over and ruined seventy beautiful books OR she's taken vulnerable writers' manuscripts and re-written them to pretend...

I get these all the time I ignore them, but last week, a guy emailed mt four times because I didn't reply. Ended with this rather shitty email

Thanks, John. I’ve tracked the issue down to those emojis in the scam message, the forum database wasn’t comfortable with them. Now updating the character set on the server, shouldn’t happen again after that.

I’ve received several emails in recent days, all structured as the one below, received this morning. While I can’t tell you exactly what sort of scam this is – it’s got “scam” written all over it. My thoughts follow. OK, so now an analysis of...