Publish American- STAY AWAY FROM THEM

In 2002, I thought I found a publisher. I learned a few months later that PA are not a publisher but a printing company, an author mill.  Thanks to Absolute Write Forums.

 

Instead of taking months for them to read my manuscript, it took less than a week. I wrongly assumed they employed speed readers to read through the manuscripts. The longer I was with them, the more I realized they are not a publishing company. To know more about book publishing, so you don't have the same problems I did click here.

One of my biggest complaints with PA is, in 2002, they promised to do a line by line edit of my manuscript and they did not.  

Publish America also showed me a dark blue cover for my manuscript. What they print is a purple one. I like the color purple, however I agreed to a dark blue cover. When I called Publish America and told them of this, I was told if the problem was discovered to be the fault of the printer, it would be reprint. However the Author NonSupport Team (PA refers to them as Author Support Team( told me, via email, that they have the final say in what the cover looks like.  The worst thing of what they told me is the cover of the book has no impact in how well a book sells!!  That is not true because most people look at the cover of a book before they read what is print on the back of the book.  So the cover of my book remained purple.

Publish America stated that they are a traditional publishing company. Who  knows what a traditional publishing company is? They use that verbiage to suck in new writers, those who do not know or understand anything about how the publishing industry works. An honest publishing company does not use the term Traditional Publisher or Publishing Company.

One important thing anyone who is thinking about trying to get published is, The Money Flows Toward the Author. The author should not pay for anything. PA has the author get their own copyright. A good and honest publishing company does that for you. So right there says millions about PA. They give you a whopping $1.00 advance, yet you've sent off a check to get your work copyrighted ($35.00, more in Canada). You are now in the hole, and this is before your first royalty check.

  

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Atlanta Nights a book poorly written by Science Fiction and Fantasy writers to prove that PA accepted anything, Was accepted then rejected by PA once it was known professional authors wrote the book.