I just did some extensive research on B&F, and I wound up falling into a very weird rabbit hole using Google reverse image search, and here's what I found:
Tyler Ferguson, their founder, wrote this book:
Apocrypha, "a journey to the cradle of life to explore the true origins of the two major modern day religions."
The publisher of that book was called Tate Publishing, a family-owned Vanity Press embezzling scam (
read more here).
Here's where things get weird...
Some of their staff listed on B&F's website have pseudonyms, and they all have these illustrated images of themselves. I was able to track down the main artist of these images,
a deviantart member, and I also found another religious connection...
Their submissions dept is headed by "R. Chota", and their image is different from the rest. I reverse-image-searched it and found this:
See this book called "
Forgotten Heir"? There's a quote in the 16-year-old author's bio: "96% of teens won't stand up for God. Put this on your profile if you are part of the 4% who will."
Now look at that cover of "Forgotten Heir" and compare it to the cover of this book on Amazon: "
The Great Deception: Modern Sodom and Gomorrah"
Check out the author...Neketo
FERGUSON. Not
Tyler this time. It's
Neketo. And he writes in his book, "The Great Deception", the following:
"Four years ago, I was darkened in my understanding of God, but thanks be to God for pulling me out of that darkness and giving me light."
The book was self-published on Amazon in 2015, roughly
four years after Tate Publishing went under. And what was the light that Ferguson experienced? In the book, he talks about meeting his wife from a distant country.
B&F is another embezzlement scam, using whatever they had stashed away from this old vanity press, and now getting vulnerable authors to sign with them. They're recruiting teens and young college kids to make up their entire company. I'm pretty certain their Director,
Blake Tan, is a recent college graduate, while one of their editors is
Kate Luke whose first book came from Polyethnic Publishing, which has already been talked about in this thread.
I don't think this is just a bunch of teenagers. I think it's a family-run business with a cultish God mission.