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Dear Reader,
Since 1994 I have organised a one-man campaign to
insist on truth and honesty in the publishing world and - at last
- in 2008 the law was changed to enable the authorities to deal with
the rogues in the publishing world.
During the last 18 years I have been instrumental
in closing down the 13 worst vanity publishers and - according to
an independent report - have with my “voluntary help, guidance
and advice, saved or retrieved in excess of £25 million for
authors world wide.”
On August 19th 2009 the British Library archived
my website for use by researchers in the future.
The Advice Pack consists of:
Section 1 - Vanity Publishing
Vanity Publishing, Advice & Warning. Vanity Publisher Will Not. Points
To Ponder. Self-
Publishing. - A Conspiracy? Anthologisers.
Section 2 - The Mainstream
Publisher
BBC Radio Short Stories and ZigZag Education.
Section 3 - Self-Publishing
Typesetting . Copy Editing. Proof Reading, and The Literary Consultancy
and remember . . .
A) If you answer an advert offering
to ‘publish’ your manuscript you do so
At Your Own Risk. Only Vanity Publishing advertise for
authors. ‘Proper’ publishers do not
need to.
B) If you use a publisher Not listed
in the Writers’ & Artists’ Year Book
you do so at your own risk.
C) If you use any reference book
other than the Writers’ & Artists’ Year
Book you do so at your own risk.
If you have questions about a particular publisher
I have files on well over 100 vanity publishers in the UK and also
a few in the USA.
SELF-PUBLISHING:
For a book to be genuinely self-published, a name
designated by the author as his publishing house must appear on the
Copyright Page of the book as ‘Publisher’.
The books ISBN number must also be registered by
the ISBN Agency to that author as publisher. All the copies of a self-published
book are the property of the author to dispose of as he wishes.
Any company which charges to publish books under
its own name or prints an undisclosed number of copies which it claims
are their property is a vanity publisher - whatever it may try and
tell you to the contrary.
If you find these pages useful and would like to
support my work you may do so by sending a donation made payable to
The VP Account at the above address.
Good wishes,
Johnathon Clifford
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