Money Goes Toward the Writer; Never From the Writer

I am not sure if non-writers will feel the same sensation of bile rising in the throat as writers when reading the following, but it should disgust and disgruntle any professional writer to hear of a large and well-established imprint like Harlequin stooping to the level of plucking money from the naive and unwary.

Harlequin is offering its services as a vanity press and vanity editor. In other words, you pay them to edit & print your manuscript, they do not pay you. And it is a healthy fee to...