Response from Firebrand Publishing
Hi, My name is Amy. I work for Firebrand Publishing.
I have been a member of absolute write for over two years. I've lurked around but never posted much.
I started out in the flash fiction community writing stories every week. It was a great experience. I learned how to create entire stories in under 1K words.
I love romance. So, when I heard Harlequin was having a contest to find their next author, I submitted my work. I didn't make it. lol.
However, I wanted to complete my story. I finally completed my novel Claimed by Desire in 2011.
I created a company Sovereign media and started publishing my stories. It was difficult and I learned many things along the way.
Some things were successful, other this were not. I also start publishing books for a few of my close friends.
The more books I published, the better I got.
My husband suggested I start a company offering publishing services to authors who want to self publish, but don't want to learn everything or don't want to do a diy approach to publishing their book.
It took my about a year to get things set up and organized so we launch a couple of months ago.
I am happy to say we have 6 books in the process of being published. WE are proud of the work we do and our culture is to do any and everything to make our authors happy.
Not everyone wants to be a publisher. Ask Amanda Hocking. She just wanted to write. Self publishing a book is not easy. But, that does not mean those that don't want to do it themselves should be locked out of the opportunity to publish their books.
As a company, we act as our authors Publishing house. We handle the production of their book. ALL profits and royalties go to the author. We do not take a dime.
We also have a 100% money back guarantee for our customers. If you decide to publish with us and you don't like the editing, or you don't like the cover and we try to fix it, but still can't, we give you your money back. We stop production on your book, return your manuscript to you and return your money.
Doing business with Firebrand Publishing is without risk.
We do not lie. What evidence do you have of this? The terrible allegations made against Firebrand publishing with absolutely NO evidence is wrong. You are working on nothing. No one has said we've ripped them off (as author solutions has) No one has ever said anything bad about us, but you.
However, you don't know anything about us. You just decide to mouth off and label us a "vanity" publishing house. Why? what have we done to you? nothing.
We believe we offer a valuable service to authors. We will not close our business because you are calling us names.
"sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will never hurt us"
We will continue to publish books. We will continue to be an honest and trustworthy company.
I am sorry you have a problem with that.
P.S everyone's determination of success is different. What one author decides is success may not be your success. We do guarantee that you will not lose money publishing with Firebrand Publishing.
Any package you choose, you are guaranteed to earn more money from the sale of your books than the money you paid for our package. We can guarantee that. Even if we have to over spend our company funds to do it.
That's how much we believe in our product. That's how much we believe in our authors. That's how much we believe in the care of our authors.
Maybe I didn't introduce myself properly. maybe I didn't do as I was suppose to on this forum. Sorry about that. However, Firebrand Publishing is a great company that will change how self publishing is done for the better.
Firebrand Publishing just recently popped onto my radar.
I want to distinguish the Firebrand Publishing company based in Atlanta from Firebrand Books (
http://www.firebrandbooks.com, a feminist and lesbian publisher based in Michigan that's an established and award-winning publisher.
This thread is about the Atlanta vanity publishing company Firebrand Publishing. Since Firebrand Publishing seem to have no distribution, and are selling entirely to authors, the distinction seems important.
Here's their site:
http://www.firebrandpublishing.com/
Here's their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/FirebrandPublishing