9 hours ago · Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling From George Saunders to the National Book Foundation, the literary world has been besieged by …

Writers Are Being Targeted by Scams. This Reporter Knows the Feeling. Feb 25, 2026 11:00 AM

Jul 22, 2025 · Self-published authors are especially vulnerable to scams like this. Here & Now 's Scott Tong talks to Brent Crane, an investigative reporter who wrote about these scams for …

6 days ago · From the new AI marketing scams, to nasty contract clauses, to publishers behaving badly, to the biggest copyright infringement restitution in history, Writer Beware has been on …

Jan 19, 2026 · In which I wonder about the dark forces that may be behind the rash of scams directed at writers and offer some thoughts on how to respond.

2 days ago · There has been a noticeable uptick in email scams targeting authors. We published a piece on scams in the Fall 2023 issue of the Bulletin, but things have continued to escalate.

Sep 17, 2025 · As authors, we’ve all been inundated with DMs on social media asking how our writing journey is going. Invariably, after starting out saying they want to be our friends, they …