PA posting some author's rant about negativity towards them is the ultimate in unprofessional ism. This looks like something you'd see on someone's MySpace page.
And what does it say that this person read the thousands of posts and still backs up PA? And she pends most of her blog post repeating the attacks on us while spending very little time actually debunking anything we've said. Also she says everyone has a right to free expression yet she wants us to shut up.
Hell who am I kidding, odds are she's a PA employee or possibly Miranda herself.
Some highlights:
Publish America now has a return policy available to all bookstores, through Ingrams.
That's great, but this policy means nothing as bookstores will NEVER order the books except on special order for individuals and those usually don't get returned.
The second, I find rather amusing, since it is the responsibility of each writer to repeatedly edit their work, before sending in the final draft.
No it's not, publishers also need to participate in the edi...........oh who am I kidding we've beaten that dead horse to the point where it could be considered desecrating a corpse.
How many of us, during our college years, did not edit our research papers and expected our professors to do it for us?
This is so ignorant it hurts. The professors were the READERS. Readers aren't supposed to edit. Professors are not publishers.
However, I have also noticed that even the books of the well known authors do have spelling errors in them. Most books have some sort of typographical error somewhere in the text.
Sure they do, but nowhere near as many as PA books do. Why? Because those books by well known authors were edited both by the author and editors.
But let's assume it IS the author's responsibility to edit, PA should then reject them if they don't.
It is also widely known that Publish America takes those that have overcome tremendous challenges, and puts their voices to print. This is powerful, especially for myself, since I am a survivor of domestic violence.
Lots of people were victims of domestic violence, that doesn't mean they deserve to be published.
Again, I am proud to be an author with Publish America. The simple resolution to this situation, in my opinion, is for those that seem to be so heavily disgruntled to simply seek out a publisher that better accommodates their needs and wants as a writer.
Don't worry, we will.
I do respectuflly, yet firmly, request that those individuals that are obviously displeased with Publish America consider that they are not simply expressing their opinions, but rather fiercely ripping apart the hopes of many Publish America authors, as they endeavor to reach out to those that are hurting and in need of support, comfort, and encouragement
You've got it backwards. PA s the one exploiting these authors and hurting them, not us. There have been countless authors who were spared being PA victims due to this site.
A few other bits from others there:
From Lynn Barry
On coping with rejections from other publishers: I had worked on "Puddles" for nearly seven years, sending it out to publishers and getting it back. After so many rejections, I relaxed and said to myself, "Wait a minute. Let's make it the best it can be." And that's when PublishAmerica came in. It was great. They really made me feel wonderful about my book.
Question Lynn: If you built a car in your garage from scratch and it never would run even after seven years of tweaking, what would you do? Would you keep working on it or would you jsut take it to the race track and run it anyway? If you went with the latter, you'll find you'll get to race but you will still lose.
From Argile Stox:
On book sales: Each royalty check you receive is a complement and a validation of your hard work. Remember that someone you don't know actually paid cold, hard cash to purchase your book - and took a chance on reading an unknown author's work!
If you got "someone you don't know" to buy your PA book then you're in the minority.
And lastly, from Femi Olawole:
On why he chose PublishAmerica: PublishAmerica offers a worthy pedestal for every aspiring author to showcase their literary and intellectual capabilities. They offer a refreshing, friendly aura of creativity that welcomes every author with an ambition to be read.
Wait, EVERY author? I thought PA didn't just publish anything submitted to them.
