A DISTURBING TREND

Is It Fair To Ask Writers To Be ‘Good Literary Citizens’?

A lot of editors do it, but it can be a sneaky way of getting you to do more work for no extra money

Janice Harayda
Published in
8 min readSep 11, 2023

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James Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” / American Film Institute

Until recently, I thought I was a pretty good literary citizen.

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Janice Harayda
The Pub

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.