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I agree. Run away when asked to pay for anything regarding getting your work published.
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Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA
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From: Alex Colvin <[log in to unmask]>
> Ann:
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> I'm a retired journalist turned history student. A word of advise. 1.)
> Legitimate publishers of most legitimate genres don't ask writers to pay
> publishing costs,especially editing. They either have in-house staff to deal
> with MS issues or they farm it out. (And if it were to be an author cost, it
> would certainly be more than $70-90 dollars. In either case, they NEVER ask the
> writer to pay such costs. 2.) Typically publishers seek out MS from
> "established" writers, by going through their agents. To get solicited directly
> from a publisher who then fawns over your work which is previously unknown to
> them, wreaks of scam.
>
> Don't succumb to their sleazy charms. :)
>
> A Colvin
>
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