The WritersWeekly Podcast

The WritersWeekly Podcast

From the owners of BookLocker.com, the WritersWeekly Podcast delves into everything involving professional writing. We cover book publishing, article writing, getting writing gigs, paying markets, writing technology, etc.

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April 29, 2025 48 mins

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Angela and Brian explore the potential liabilities and pitfalls of publishing "tell-all" memoirs. 


Many people want to publish accounts of their lives, recounting experiences that negatively affected their lives, and exposing people who "wronged" them. Unfortunately, such declarations have opened many an author up to civil litigation, initiated by t...

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Query Letters and Book Proposals are very important tools for those who want to earn money from their writing. If you aren't landing as many contracts and book deals as you'd like, it may be because your "pitching" isn't as polished as it could be. 

Angela and Brian lay out how query letters and book proposals work, explain what publishers and edito...

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In this episode, Angela and Brian do a deep dive into the non-profit organization known as "NaNoWriMo" (National Novel Writing Month), and their recent announcement that they would be shutting down. 

Did financial mismanagement bring about their demise? Or was it a failure to address alleged accusations that a child groomer was on their forum? Could it have been t...

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In this second part to our scam episode, Angela and Brian discuss steps the WritersWeekly team have been taking to combat the prolific rise in international publishing scams, and specific steps YOU can take to make sure that a 'publishing company' you may be looking into isn't a scam operation. 

Also, something odd happened during the recording of this episod...

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In our first episode, Angela and Brian tackle the astronomical rise in scams that target writers and authors. These criminals from outside the US are using professional looking websites, social media, and direct messaging to lure people in with the promise of writing related services at bargain-basement prices. But look out! Once they have your money, you're not getti...

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