Warning To Writers

Warning to writers

While you are worrying about whether beta readers will steal your ideas, there is a more genuine threat on the horizon.

When offered a publishing contract, please do all your research before you sign. There are a number of fakes and scammers out there, as well as good-intentioned amateurs that don’t know how to get your work to a wide audience. I won’t tell the heartbreaking stories here - there are too many.

Being published badly is worse than being never published.

It can destroy your career and your dreams.

The quick check is to google the publishing house name + scam or warning.

But, to be sure, check with these places first. They aren’t infallible (nothing is) but they can help you protect yourself. They are written and maintained by expereinced writers, editors, publishers and legal folks.

Absolute Write: Bewares and Background Checks

Preditors and editors

Writer Beware

and the WRITER BEWARE blog

Keep yourself and your work safe.

This is really important, so if you are a writer or have writer friends, or you are a writing blog, please reblog it.

Hermione Granger and men (ง︡’-‘︠)ง

Mage Pride Icons: middle finger edition

Want to show your pride while saying "fuck you" to the Templars? Well your wish has been granted!

Thanks/credit to @ankokon for making the mage hand giving the middle finger.

Fucking Dumbledore. 😂

when dumbledore tells you “sometimes we sort too soon”

Flip it:

Ravenclaw: Gryffindor, you’re driving down a road and Slytherin and Hufflepuff walk onto the road. Which do you hit?

Gryffindor: Slytherin.

Ravenclaw: Wrong. Aim for Hufflepuff. Slytherin would get them both out of the way. There’s no way a Slytherin would allow their emotional support Hufflepuff get harmed.

Hufflepuff, teaching Slytherin to drive: So you’re driving down a road and Gryffindor and Ravenclaw walk onto the road. What do you hit?

Slytherin: Oh definitely Gryffindor

Hufflepuff, massaging their temples: The breaks, Slytherin. You hit the breaks.

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