It’s time for another edition of The Insecure Writer’s Support Group, founded by Ninja Captain, Alex J. Cavanaugh.


The question for today: What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry?

There are a lot of things to choose from! Plagiarism, vanity publishers, using AI to write the whole book, etc.

I decided to go with one that many people may not be aware of – book returns.

Bookstores and the wholesalers & distributors who deal with them are the only ones who return book...