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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, guidence
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. OnlyVanity 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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