Wergle Flomp

The remarkable Making Light informs me today of Wergle Flomp, or the vicious things people will do to aspiring writers, just to make a buck.

I don't know which troubles me more -- the creeps who perpetrate this or the poor souls who fall for it. What scribbler hasn't dreamed of making it big? You want to believe that your priceless prose/poetry is good enough to win the hearts and minds of all, and it seems judgement goes out the window.

A simple Google search (poetry writing scam) brings up a nice (if chastening) set of links.

Worst of all, I think that someone I know has recently fallen for this, and I dread telling her. I'm not sure I'm up to raining on her parade.

Parenthetically, Making Light should be on every writer's regular reading list. Honest. Click the link, go see what I mean.