The Easy Path to Publication is paved with Your Dollars

the above post was somehow posted wrongly...here`s my real post:

Hafsa, nice article. I have myself been a witness to this scam. Everytime I submitted a poem to poetry.com it would get published and I would be amazed! Later on, I discovered that it was all a scam cuz some of my friends were submitting their poems and all of them were getting published...thank God i wasn`t stupid enough to attend one of those so-called poetic conventions!

Re: # 8
//..What`s the point of raking up the past?.Let the dead past bury the past..//

It makes sense to ``rake up the past``. Particularly when the past has been so beautiful in many ways. If for nothing else - to make the future better. With so much history, Orissa has good potential for tourism, which will bring in the money needed to get out of being a ``basket case``.

And then there is the cliche - those you ignore history are condemned to repeat it. That has been the bane of Indian existence - we don`t record history and we never learn from it. Too bad.

hey hafsa - the very first sign of a scam as explained to me was if they asked you for a fee. they pay you, you dont pay them. some of the smaller agencies may ask you to pay xerox charges but thats it.

i think poets are more at risk because the market is so tiny and hard to get into or make any money in.

Interesting article, Hafsa. This is very true. Another scam I think are the vanity presses, publish on demand arrangements and companies like American Book Publishers that routinely take money from writers and make them believe they will recoup their investments. Very useful for all writers and poets to take note.