Just how evil are vanity publishers?

[inverarity]

Well, obviously not all of them are this evil. But holy crap.

Yes, this is from Robert Fletcher, the same guy I have posted about previously, who runs a variety of vanity presses under the Strategic Publishing Group (and who has even harassed my tiny little blog, or his marksclients have).

The desperation of wannabe authors knows no bounds. All the hacks throwing their unedited RPG fanfics up on Amazon are now calling themselves "indie publishers."

Comments

[anthonyjfuchs.livejournal.com]

Has Mr. Fletcher dug up all the criminal activity committed by various Inverarity's yet in an attempt to lay it all at your feet? `Cause, man, when that stuff hits the message boards (where it never goes away), things are gonna get UGLY.

Though I'm sure you'll be exonerated.

[winterfox.livejournal.com]

Why do they do that, when they can actually get their badly-written RPG fanfics published with WoTC?