Author

Publication

2004 - Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

52,750 words, Guess

Page Count

211 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1208243
  • Goodreads1403855

Classifications

  • DDC364.16/3
  • LCCPN149.9.D44 F57 2004
  • DDCB

Description

Former FBI agent Jim Fisher upends the genteel racket of fee-based literary agents and vanity publishers in this searing look at the rise and fall of one bogus entrepreneur who systematically swindled thousands of would-be writers out of millions of dollars with promises of having their work turned into salable books. In divulging the details of this colossal and shocking confidence game, the author exposes a growing and serious crime against writers and a dark, ugly secret about the American publishing industry.

Subjects

Topics

BiographyLiterary agentsDeering, Dorothy.Swindlers and swindlingLiterary agents -- United States -- Biography.Swindlers and swindling -- United States -- Biography.

Places

People

Dorothy Deering

Genres

  • Biography.

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