Links

Vetting an Independent Editor Sound advice from the Writer Beware Blog
Amazon's Plagiarism Problem Literotica fertile source for erotica plagiarists 
Best Practices for Amazon Ebook Sales. Not
Is Writing Replacing Reading?
Do Orgasms Make You Live Longer? Yes, yes, yessss!
Kinky Killer on Dateline NBC The extra-marital affair might be relevant to the murder, but the BDSM is not.

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Confessions of a Plagiarist

The plagiarizer behind the spy novel Assassin of Secrets offers an excuse. In a recent essay for The Fix, Q. R. Markham claims he was addicted to stealing from other writers. It's pretty much like alcoholism, he says. Only it involves big advances and even bigger ego-gratification.

Evidently, because stealing is a disease, rather than a character flaw, an apology is unnecessary.

Links

Susan's Kindle Sample Reviews: This clever new site reviews samples of bizarre Kindle romances and erotic romances. Hilarious (and a little mean). Fiction is stranger than fiction, evidently.

Why some people are so opposed to self-publishing: This blog post presents an analysis of why it makes business sense to self-publish. A summary: Percentages rule. Sales, not so much.

The meltdown resignation: What happens to an author when self-publishing math doesn't add up.