From the monthly archives:

May 2006

Barbara Bauer issues literary awards

31 May 2006

I’ve heard of scummy scammers posing as agents doing that, but this is the first one I’ve seen, and by Barbara "The Babs" Bauer herself. Ho boy! What a treat!
Bi it known that
The Barbara Bauer Literary Agency, Inc.
hereby authorizes and awards this
Certificate of Approval
to
Milan Nesic
in recognition of satisfactory [...]

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AbsoluteWrite the update

31 May 2006

If you don’t already know it, the refugee forums are up and running. No, they’re not pretty, and no, it’s not the forums from AW prior to the takedown, but they’ll do for now.
Also, Jenna Glatzer, owner/operator of Absolute Write, has made a plea for donations.
Birol offered a brief update:
Today, as the clock [...]

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Matt’s meme on unfinished fiction

31 May 2006

Which I also encountered at Kira and Fahim’s blogs. The original post is on Matt’s blog Fireflies in the Cloud.
I have tons of stories that I’ve started but never finished. I end up abandoning stories a lot if they’re not going precisely how [...]

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Time-release GoogleBomb against literary scammers

30 May 2006

Mad Scientist Matt, commenting over at Dawno’s blog, said, in reference to the top twenty worst agents list:
I think I’m going to start a time-release Googlebomb on my blog, now that I’ve had a chance to ponder things. Each week I will feature a new agent on the list and some of the lowlights of [...]

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Random Act of Kindness

30 May 2006

It’s a meme started by Kelly where she talks about Absolute Write going down.
Before the site disappeared, bloggers on the forum were talking about a way to initiate a blogging effort that would connect people across the globe. Well, that has definitely happened in the form of this really nasty situation, but we had some [...]

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Scammer Haiku

29 May 2006

Scummy scam agentsDie a slow and painful deathSalt and razor blades.
Scum sucking pond scumBottom feeders, the worst kindTwenty worst agents list.
Similar Posts:

Time-release GoogleBomb against literary scammers
Scam! Scammy! Scammer! Scammiest!
Barbara Bauer the Linking Haiku
Barbara Bauer and the (very very many ) blog posts about her
The Top Twenty Worst Agents

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Think before you act

29 May 2006

Stephanie of JC Hosting, the former host for AbsoluteWrite who pulled the plug on their site with one hour notice, has an entry up at her site where she talks about business as usual and pulling her own writing site out of mothballs. I’ll grant you that Stephanie has remarkably bad timing with putting her [...]

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Requiring Information: When is it too much?

29 May 2006

A while back, I came across a writing community that looked interesting and began to register there.
The first box to be filled in? Date of birth, including day, month and year.
Required.
I didn’t like that – I’ll be honest with you. I can understand wanting to know if I’m over 13 or 18, but not a [...]

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Copying blog entries

28 May 2006

Dawno had the title of one of her blog entries and the first few lines copied on another site. The person who did the copying did give her credit for the post, but didn’t ask her permission.
Plagiarism on the internet is easy – all it takes is a couple of clicks. Some people – people [...]

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The Top Twenty Worst Agents

28 May 2006

I mentioned the SFWA’s list of top twenty worst agents in a previous post.
This list has become a rather big deal lately with the whole Barbara Bauer and Absolute Write site takedown. As part of the retaliation of sorts, devoted AWers have posted all over the blogosphere about the takedown and linking BB to the [...]

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