Category: Writing Life, Publishing Industry, Indie Author Journey Scams and Solicitation Author Advocacy Creative Reflections Self-Publishing Truths

It didn’t start with a scam. It started with hope. A hope that someone, somewhere, had read my book and believed in it. That all the years I poured into writing it had finally been seen. But what followed wasn’t real interest—it was a machine built to prey on authors like me. Emails, DMs, flattery…