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Karl Straub's avatar

In my anecdotal experience, people that are trying to make money off you expect you to do their job for them much of the time, want you to give them as much as they can take, and are quick to drop you if a better source of money comes along. But then they don’t understand why you’re mad, and will even expect you to hear them chatting about the other opportunity and be happy for them.

There must be exceptions to these generalizations, but these behaviors are the ones that stick in my head.

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M.E. Proctor's avatar

Ouch. It's sobering to learn that being screwed by an editor/publisher can happen at any stage of a writer's career, not just at the beginning....

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