The Book Fair SCAM

 A ploy that cannot fail

The easiest SCAM

One of the easiest scam projects is the Book Fair SCAM.

I was approached by several vanity publishers, with regards to putting my books in book fairs.

This may seem a great opportunity for sales, but it is the easiest, and most successful way to scam a writer.

The usual approach is they give you a list of fairs they "say" they will put your book in, knowing well you cannot prove they did nothing, but take your money. You cannot get to all the fairs, and if you go to one, all they'd say is either we were there, but you couldn't find us, or we were somewhere else.

What is a Vanity Publisher?

The usual ploy of a vanity publisher is to say, "if you pay for the first book to be published, we may give you a contract for the sequel."

If you have to pay for the first book, which does well, why give someone the credit of publishing a sequel, when they had no faith in you?