About this episode

Lauren shares lessons learned from a children's book publishing offer that turned out to be a vanity publishing scam.

Send us Fan Mail Week 10 of the 1,000 Rejection Challenge brought an unexpected lesson: not every acceptance is actually a win. In this episode of Wildly Unplugged, Lauren shares how the excitement of receiving a children's book publishing offer quickly turned into a crash course on vanity publishing, author scams, and the importance of doing your research before signing a contract. After receiving an acceptance for Vinnie the Vulture Finds His Place, Lauren dug deeper into the publisher's cl...

People in this episode

Host: Lauren Connolly

Topics covered

• rejection
• publishing
• vanity publishing
• author scams
• research
• children's books

Keywords

• rejection challenge
• publishing offer
• vanity publishing
• author scams
• children's book

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: vanity publishing, author scams

Books & works: Vinnie the Vulture Finds His Place

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