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" Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not. "

Victoria Strauss

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" It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off. "

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" Is it ever worthwhile to buy a review? Not in my opinion. With independent paid review services, quality can be a problem; plus, there are plenty of non-professional book review venues out there that will review for free. "

Victoria Strauss

" When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap. "

Victoria Strauss

" If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that. "

Victoria Strauss

" There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published. "

Victoria Strauss

" Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere. "

Victoria Strauss

" 'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way. "

Victoria Strauss

" Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published. "

Victoria Strauss

" Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while. "

Victoria Strauss