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Outskirts Press is the inept and dishonest pay-to-publish company that I love to hate. Outskirts does so many things so badly, that it is a frequent target of this blog.
Outskirts -- like most of its competitors -- sells few books, so it must make its money by selling high-profit services and trinkets to its author-customers.
Every author needs a press release to announce books, and Outskirts is eager to provide an "original, unique press release for your book" for $219. Sadly, most Outskirts releases are absolutely dreadful, apparently hacked together by a not-very-bright robot supervised by a not-very-bright mammal.
"Original, unique" is blatant bullshit. There is little original or unique in an Outskirts Press release.
A Google search for the phrase "author's most recent book to date" shows over 300,000 links -- in Outskirts book announcements.
- The phrase is bad English (if the book is "most recent," then "to date" is superfluous -- a publisher should know this).
- It's also inaccurate. A quick check of online info shows that the vast majority of "most recent book to date" books are first books by their authors.
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Stay away from Outskirts Press.
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