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Victoria Strauss honored for work with ‘Writer Beware’
Nebula Awards Blog — ... Strauss has donated countless hours of her time to advising, educating and warning aspiring and established authors about dubious, questionable and outright criminal business practices on the fringes of the publishing industry. She maintains the Writer Beware website (http://www.sfwa.org/beware/) and is a major contributor to Writer Beware Blogs! ( ...

Victoria Strauss to receive SFWA Service Award
SFScope — ... . The award is made at the sole discretion of the President, and has previously been called the Service to SFWA Award. Strauss is receiving the award for her work with Writer Beware , a publishing industry watchdog group which "shines a light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls." Strauss responded to the announcement, saying "I'm thrilled and honored to receive this wonderful award (though by rights it belongs equally to Ann Crispin, Writer Beware co-founder and co-conspirator, without whom Writer Beware wouldn't exist—or be ...

Writer Beware wins costs from scam agent
SFScope — ... -sponsored Writer Beware web site has won a significant counter-lawsuit against scam agent Robert M. Fletcher and his Writers' Literary Agency (also known as The Literary Agency Group, and several others). Writer Beware is operated by Ann Crispin and Victoria Strauss, as an on-line resource for writers to warn them away from publishing scams. One of the scammers they warned writers about was Fletcher and his various companies. In early 2008, Fletcher brought suit against them, to have them remove the negative commentary from the web site. When Fletcher failed to provide any ...