I am writing because of problems that I am having with authorhouse publishing company. I signed on to have two books self published. I made an initial payment and received two paid receipt that indicated that while they had received payment, there was no monetary information regarding the amount I had paid or what the amount for the deal was. I received a phone call from a person from authorhouse indicating that they were assigned to work on my book. I contacted her back regarding how to get started, but did not hear back from her after one week. I called back again and she lied and said that she had sent me an email back, which of course I never received. I recontacted the representative I spoke to earlier, and he asked me to submit the material to him that he would take care of the submissions. I asked to work with another person rather than the previous woman, and was told I would get transferred to work with someone else. After 1 week, the same woman emailed me back, I emailed her back to let her know that I had submitted it to the representative Mr. Jefferies and to ask whether she had received it, she never emailed me back. I called back her company only to be told by her that my phone had been disconnected, when I told her that my phone was never disconnected and confirmed the number she had indicated that she had called. The bottom line is this after one month since I made my payment towards these books, the company has done absolutely nothing and have acted in the most unprofessional and unethical manner. I need to get a refund back. I am appalled.

I know my book is selling good, I'm just not making any royalites off of it. I see where lots of people have bought it but I don't get anything but about 2.30 off of each book. I don't know why someone doens't do something about this. I've complained to the BBB and the Attorney General and they have done nothing. They say the author gets 50 percent of the royalties, but that's a lie. They also say what you see there on your sales does not include sales from bookstores and amazon. Well that's a lie. I know many are making money off my book that I NEED to live on. I'm on social security disability and I NEED that money. Do they care? NO. DON"T DO BUSINESS WITH AUTHOR HOUSE OR IT"S SISTER COMPANIES. Word Clay. Author Solutions and other. They will take your money and act like it's your fault that you don't get more. They know how to legally cheat you. They can change those documents in their favor.

BEWARE OF AUTHOR HOUSE: I spent $1, 250 to publish my book with them PLUS $2, 500 for a "National Marketing Package".

Four months later, not a single paperback nor e-bbok has been sold.

Unless you like to throw money away, AVOID AUTHOR HOUSE ENTIRELY!!!

Michael

I paid them $2300. to self publish a book and I find out that I'm getting little in royalties from my own book. I could understnad if they published that wihtout money from me. But I gave them ALOT for nothing in return. They said I approved only getting less than 2.00 a book, they also said I approved 22.00 onAmazon and Barnes and NOble. but when I got the price sheet. I was told 13.00 for my hard cover book, and 8 for my soft cover. I would have never approved such a thing. I was scammed!
They hope I come back and have a second book published. Oh the bonuses I will get they say. Places like Amazon.com, and barnes and Noble are profiting big off the book I paid so much to get published. They have quite a raquet going and probably will never get caught. I heard that they are cheating the IRS too, They know how to write things and do things that looks legal and up front. I hope they fall.