Marks vs. Scammers

The People Who Sell Hope to Authors Who Can't Find Readers

An entire industry is positioned exactly where you're standing, and it would like several thousand dollars.

Marks vs. Scammers is a book in the Indie Author Guide Line: short, source-checked guides for independent authors who have finished writing and now have to be found. The vanity press with the publishing-house name. The marketing package priced against your desperation. The review farm. The message from someone claiming to work at Amazon. Almost nobody writes this book honestly, because almost everyone qualified to write it also has something to sell you.

This house sells books and nothing else, which is the whole credential behind this one.

What's inside:

• The recognizable shapes of author-targeting scams, since the names rotate but the shapes don't
• How vanity presses disguise themselves as legitimate publishers
• What a review farm actually does, and why it usually costs you more than it earns
• How to spot a fake "Amazon representative" or platform-insider claim
• Where to find the standing, current sources that track active scams
• Why a course sold by someone whose only income is selling courses is a signal worth noticing

This is not a scare tactic, and it names no brands that will be gone next quarter. What it will do is teach you the underlying pattern, so you can recognize the next version of it before it costs you anything.

From the Indie Author Guide Line, from Novel Concepts Publishing.