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PublishAmerica
Posted on: Fri, 12/28/2007 - 23:40
PublishAmerica
In 2006 PublishAmerica published my book, "I Thought I Would Never Make It Through The 4th Grade. 1st let me tell you that some of the things that you have heard about them are false. I found their editing department weak and their art department almost renowned. The good thing about them is that you do not have to pay any money up front. I have read several of their books and have found their writers to be as good or better as those published by the large publishing houses. The problem is the publishing business. If you are not known you are going to find it very hard to sell more than 200 books. You are one in millions trying to sell over the internet. Nevertheless, a very few do sell in the thousands. Publish America is a royality publisher, not a vanity one. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I am only 90% oppose to vanity publishing. It is like going to a brothel you know you are going to get laid. The problem is that they rope in new writers, who do not understand the publishing business, and thank that their book is going to sell millions and are heartbroken when it only sells a few copies.
PublishAmerica is a maverick publishing house and their short commings have to be overlooked. In the event that they reject you and you feel that you have written a good book that deserves to be published at any cost, I would suggest Infinity Publishing. I believe that they do somethings better than PublishAmerica, they are just going to sell you all they can. But if you have time and money and can put everything you have into the project, they might be the best way to go. www.freewebs.com/thomascrosthwaite/
My first novel, Mustang Summer: A Novel, will be released by Publish America in early January 2008; and so far, I am immensely pleased with PA. They have done everything they said they would do. Moreover, the people with whom I have dealt--from the editorial staff to the production team--have all seemed genuinely concerned with ensuring my novel's success.
I think I have a good novel--maybe not the next Great American Novel--but good nevertheless. However, I got so very tired of trying to find someone willing to give it the chance I believed it deserved. Some agents told me it was well-written, it was creative, it was, in fact, one of the best new novels they had read in quite some time; however, it was "way too long." I tried to shorten it, and I was left with but a hollow shell of the story I needed to tell. Publish America is publishing the entire thing--all 441 pages--and never once has anyone said, "It's too long."
Again, I think Publish America is great, and it is vastly underrated by some people.
Carol Culver Rzadkiewicz
http://www.authorsden.com/carolcrzadkiewicz
Carol Culver Rzadkiewicz
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There short comings include pretending to be a mainstream publisher and suing people for talking about them on forums. My only advice to anyone considering them would be: run away. There are many other more honest no-fee self publishing companies.
I was happy with the job Publish America did to present my novel, Green Power, as an attracive product. But it was up to me alone to promote my book. They said they would send out press releases to my local newspapers. But when I contacted my hometown paper, they weren't aware of my new novel. I did pursue it and they came up with a very nice article on both myself and my thriller novel.
Publish America has just recently had a fallout with amazon.com and amazon is no longer directly selling PA books. However, other sellers are still listing PA books on amazon.
http://www.freewebs.com/vrooman