Preditors and Editors
Since so many short story competitions have come our way recently, it seemed time to post a link to one of the better debunking sites on the web. If you're curious about a contest, publisher, etc, check with Preditors and Editors to see if they're listed as "not recommended." The site also has a whole section just for warnings, including good links to other sites with warnings. This is a nice resource.
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A closer look at this "Preditor and Editor" site reveals that it is written and posted by just one very unsuccessful science fiction/fantasy author Dave Kuzminski AKA "The Butterfly".
Following Victoria Strauss’s Sci Fi book promotion methods in her volunteer writers beware page or did she copy Dave’s methods first? Both are self appointed writing scam “experts” without any independent over the shoulder type of fact checking or supervision. Some of their “scam reports” are nothing more than false rumors they started in writer discussion pages and blogs. Each are masters of intimidation and use pen names to post additional comments quickly to contradict and bury any opposing comments in their discussion boards, forums and blogs.
It has been proven that they both have knowingly posted false statements in their listings. Possibly to take vengeance on some publishers and agents that have rejected them personally or possibly for income through extortion or protection schemes as some companies have reported.
Both appear to work full time or obsessively to post propaganda to the writers community to support their web site “reports”. Either they are independently wealthy or earn significant income from book sales or as paid bloggers by the competitors of agents and publishing companies that they criticize. Working together they often begin topic threads to reinforce each others misinformation and work to publicize each of their Sci Fi novels. Both represent themselves as scam busting heroes to the writers community, when in fact it is merely their platform to manipulate and deceive naïve writers with their own book sales and profiting schemes.
Gee, John, you want to provide some proof?
A fascinating piece of fiction you have here. For anyone who's interested in figuring out just how false the information above really is, I recommend carefully and thoroughly reading EVERYTHING posted on the Writer Beware website. Then, do a little fact checking of your own. There's quite probably sufficient information provided there to do a thorough investigation of your own.
Once you do, dear readers, I'm certain that only the most gullible of you will fall for the tripe written above.
Everyone realizes, of course, that the post I made was in reference to the slush written by John.
Oh, and, THREE CHEERS FOR SCAMBUSTERS!!!
As a blog-site reader, the above story seems factual and realistic, so I'm tempted to believe the writer isn't making up any false charges. Thank you.
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