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Twitter is a wonderful tool for writers.  It creates interactive communities and allows extremely customized newsfeeds. Twitter also opens doors between authors, agents, and publishers, through intermittent pitch contests like #pitmad (Pitch Madness), #AdPit (Adult fiction pitches), or #SFFpit (science fiction & fantasy pitches). In general, contests like these allow participants to post their novels’ short…

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…Because stuff like this keeps happening, to people who should maybe know better, but let greed, hope, and inexperience cloud their judgment. Case 1. Silver Publishing When I first started looking at publishing erotic romance in the summer of 2011, there was a rock-star publisher rising in the ranks, with some gorgeous covers, great writers,…

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