I published my book as a paperback in 2003 when this company was called 1st Books. They have been stealing my royalties ever since. The book is on close to one hundred websites, world-wide and is selling in euros, canadian dollars, Japanese yen and regular dollars.

Amazon.com will not release sales figures on any book coming from AuthorHouse without a subpoena from a lawyer representing the author (even for one copy). This does not make sense unless Amazon.com were in it up to their necks with AuthorHouse and hiding this fraud, both from the authors and the taxes rightfully due the U.S. government. In addition, Ingram's, which distributes these books, is also in on the scam.

It is extremely paranoid for a multi-billion dollar company, one of the world's wealthiest companies today like Amazon.com to demand a lawyer in the matter of one single copy of a book when the royalty due the author was under twenty dollars . . . which, by the way, she has not gotten from that lying company, AuthorHouse.

Surely a lousy twenty dollars would not bankrupt this extremely rich company, but, if thousands of sales were being stolen, it would make sense for them to try to cover their backs by demanding a lawyer. Their reasoning is that the average author would not have a personal lawyer.

I cancelled my contract two years ago with AuthorHouse and my novel is still selling everywhere on the internet. There is no need for more than one website offering a product of any kind unless that product were selling.

The name of my novel is April is the Cruellest Month: the Praetorium.