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| | Fiction Factor - What a Write Off |
 | | After paying $595 to appear at the convention, she found prominent editors and publishers to be conspicuously absent, and when organisers had only an hour to decide winners from over 200 entries, she finally realized they were predetermined. |
 | | Selling a few anthologies and hosting phony dinners may seem a miniscule rip off, but as outlined on the Wind Publications website, The Greater Maryland Better Business Bureau estimates that the ILP has 500,000 customers each year and if only half purchase a single $50 anthology, the International Library would make $12.5 million. |
 | | In the pursuit of professional writing careers, writers are constantly thrust into exploitative situations, often unaware of what is to happening to them. |
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