This is a long post, but hopefully it will put a factual and well based end to this already 13 page forum.
This forum is kind of painful to read. After reading most of this forum I finally decided to go all out and get the full scoop. I looked through consumer reports about Tate Publishing. Almost all of them either directly quoted the Tate Publishing Website or warned that it was a scam. Because of this I looked into Tate Publishing even further. They boast a small 3.5% acceptance rate, yet I have only been able to find 1 reference of anyone actually being rejected, and that person was just Tate Publishing in disguise. I have noticed that several forums Tate Publishing has come on as a "regular author" who found them to be "very nice" and a lot of other buzz words like that. That alone should say something about their honesty as they are proclaiming to be "a good Christian Publisher."
One person on this mentioned that people apposed to Tate just don't understand the concept of co investment. As far as that goes, I researched all the expenses that a publisher could possibly spend advertising a book, and came no where near the $20,000 - $30,000 range that they promised to spend on the book.
When I contacted a couple of anti-spam organizations, they all said the same thing. Tate Publishing is a Scam. One of them even had a few authors who contacted them saying that they did not get the $4000 "co investment" back when when they sold their 5000 copies. Another one took the time to go through their website and point out everything that was a red flag saying possible scammer. All the good Christian stuff which I have already found to be blatantly false, as well as taking the time to speak to you personally are just ways where they force you to sign it over. They don't make you give up your manuscript but they do make you give up more than any other publisher possibly would.
As it turns out, they do exactly as they say. They publish the book and market it as normal, but that is as far as they go. You don't get your $4000 "co investment" back. They probably use $500 of it to publish and advertise your book, and the rest goes into their pay checks. Ask any expert in the field and they will say (and I quote this from one of the many other forums where Tate Publishing is also disputed) "Don't walk, run away, as fast as you can."
I usually try to avoid a biased opinion as I just stay with the facts, but this time the facts them selves very much point to it being a scam. I am sorry for those of you who have gone with Tate Publishing, and no doubt Tate Publishing will respond to this with another post from a phony author, but those of you who have not signed up with Tate, DONT. Best of luck out there to all of you who are trying to publish a book, I know from experience that it is an important event and I hope a real publisher absolutely loves your books and you sell more than your wildest dreams thought possible.
Now it is time for Tate Publishing to reply with a phony author again