{"id":327228,"date":"2026-08-22T05:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327228\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T05:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:44:21","slug":"brooklyn-book-festival-alert-scammers-target-authors-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327228\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Book Festival alert: Scammers target authors, publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 THE BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL is alerting authors and publishers to not be taken in by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXun5Vbkk8g\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">scammers<\/a> posing as staff or representatives of the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynbookfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">book fest<\/a>, which takes place Sept. 20-28. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are an author or publisher and approached by any other entity or person requesting payment, they do not represent the festival,\u201d organizers warn on Instagram. \u201cPlease be aware and do not respond to emails requesting personally identifiable information.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Registrations for the event\u2019s Marketplace take place through the official Brooklyn Book Festival group only. If in doubt, email <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#472e29212807253528282c2b3e292528282c212234332e31262b69283520\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN \u2014 THE BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL is alerting authors and publishers to not be taken in by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,121090,100,99,9,24,5325,63,10693],"class_list":["post-327228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-book-festival","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-no-paywall","tag-nyc","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}