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- Frisco, TX, USA • Mar 10, 2026
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Self publishing scammers MUST be stopped. This organization, Green Book Publishing, text me about self publishing and knew we owned a book, the title, my cell phone number. When I tried to call the number to discuss the text, this person text back they could not talk. When I asked if they were a fraudulent company they text back "it is like you said". When I asked for the number they didnt provide one. There was no website or phone number provided, no professional information about this company anywhere. Luckily we have no interest in self publishing but we have worked a long time on this book and will not let scammers like this get the best of us. I have a filed a complaint with the FTC.

Here is the only site I could find that made sense since this person I spoke with finally had a Thai sounding accent. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576316216736

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- Potomac, MD, USA • Feb 15, 2026
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This is a book publishing company. It focuses on older individuals. I wrote the text on behalf of my mother. They published the book but made mistakes in the final version of the book. While they give the opportunity to review the text they do not give the opportunity to review the final book. They made simple publishing mistakes for example the captions for photographs appeared on the next page. They refused to fix this error or compensate me for the damage done.

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- Royersford, PA, USA • Nov 29, 2025
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I was told their illustrations were not AI generated but they are.

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- Santa Monica, CA, USA • Oct 07, 2025
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This is a book publishing editing and marketing company heavily advertising on Facebook. The people may be operating from Pakistan. They are providing AI editing and illustrations and present themselves as professionals assisting inexperienced writers. They took money from me to obtain ISBN numbers and copyright registrations even though I could face fine it myself.

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- East Hampton, NY, USA • Sep 12, 2025
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Said she is a literary agent and sent an agent/author agreement to my husband 92-years-old who had a small book published. I checked Writers Beware website and saw them listed as a scam.

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- Dana, NC, USA • Jul 31, 2025
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NY Book Publishers promised to promote my book with a 100% guaranteed ROI. They were to edit the book using a real human. Instead, they edited the book with an AI program (obvious, from all the errors), did some inexpensive services like listing the book on Amazon and Ingram, and then did nothing. After 6 months they had sold zero books. They apologized and asked for another 6 months, while trying to upsell me on additional services. When I started putting in bad reviews they offered to refund $1500. ScamPulse.com reported that their 42 Broadway address is a "virtual" address. Their agent Jim Bannister [email protected] talks great, does not do what is promised.

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- Houston, TX, USA • Jul 31, 2025
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I had an extremely disappointing experience with this company. I placed an order and was charged $500, but never received the product for Book publishing. Despite multiple follow-ups, the company misrepresented the situation to PayPal, falsely claiming that the item had been delivered. When I contacted them directly, they assured me that I would receive a refund a promise that was never fulfilled.

It has now been almost 30 day, and I am still without the product or the refund. This experience has been both frustrating and deeply concerning in terms of customer service and business ethics. I strongly caution others to proceed with care when considering this company.

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- Seattle, WA, USA • May 19, 2025
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On their webside they say they will give full refund if the client is not satisfied. When I changed my mind and decided not to use them they at first refused to give me my money back , then refunded $1500 of the $3500 I paid them. This was on March 15th they sent me a letter the rest would be refunded April 15th. When it did not arrive i call and they said they had a problem but would send it May 15th. They day has passed with them sending the money. I called again and was told they were checking iinto it and would get back to me. I would like you to contact them and pressure them into giving me back my money. I live in Seattle and have no means pressuring them myself.

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- Hollywood, FL, USA • May 07, 2025
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I signed a contract with NY Book Publishers with Victor Hughes on 11/25/2024. I have approved the front cover and revised copy in 8/1/2 x 11 format. The play is supposed to be in 51/2 x 7x1/2 format. It has been almost 30 weeks and I have never seen a completed copy/ When I tried to cancel and break ties with the company, Olivia Davis said cancellation was not possible because it was in the publishing phase. How could that be possible when I never had final approval of the product. Olivia's text tone was rude and vindictive. It clearly says in the contract that I can sever our ties anytime I want if I am not satisfied. I also checked and discovered that NY Book Publishers is in the Word Weekly scammer's list. All I want to do is sever ties with them. get a refund and move on. A simple play should never take 39 weeks! ***** ** ******** **********

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- North Little Rock, AR, USA • May 06, 2025
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Refund Promised, Never Delivered — Elders Beware

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I am ***** ********* ****** ****** **** ***** ** ****** ** ****** **** * *********** ************** ****** ******** *** **** ** **** *****. I engaged Authors Hike and TekVersify for publishing services totaling over $64,000. After numerous delays, broken promises, and misleading inducements, I was verbally and digitally promised a full refund. That refund was never honored. Communication ceased after assurances were given, and I received no services in alignment with the timeline sanctioned by the ********* ************ ******* guiding my work.

This experience disrupted sacred elder work tied to ancestral restoration, and caused measurable harm. While the financial grievance is clear, the spiritual and emotional cost has also been immense. I urge fellow elders, authors, veterans, and spiritual leaders to proceed with caution. The path led me to ancestral keys, yes—but that awakening was born out of exploitation. Business platforms and agencies have been formally notified, including the FTC, Attorney General, and FBI cybercrime division.

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- Flushing, NY, USA
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This company has a website that when you browse a chat box opens, engaging you in conversation. They claim they are mystical book publishing company, in business for 20 years but they publish childrens books.They talked professionally as if they know the business. They sale you into an agreement offering a 3 month path to best seller success: Pre marketing launch, manuscript refinement and design enhancement, ISBN and barcode,, cross platform formating, audiobook creation, retailer and bookstore engagement, generating excitement SEO content and social media strategies. They claim to have 100% money back guarantee "we stand behind our services " we either make it right or refund your investment . They pressured us to give them the money on the spot, 2,499 dollars and they claim their office was so confident in the success that they were puting 2,499 from their own pocket. This was a sacrifice for my husband and I . They insisted that after we make some money we can invest in a bigger package including more services. Before we made any money they insisted that we pay for an audio book. 4,500 dollars. In their proposal there was no extra fee for the audiobook. they insisted that thats the way they work and it takes and extra cost. We sent via pay pal $4,5000.

We were enthusiastic to work with them. They assigned us someone to work with us who would make appointments with us and stand us up, with different excuses every time. When he spoke to us he claimed he was taking notes on our requests yet the product that he produced was not though out and instead of improving the manuscript it got worse. We requested our money back but her (Sean Marcus) begged for another opportunity to get it right. In the mean time we realized that they were not as professional as they claim to be and cancelled the 4,500 payment with our credit card. Sean was asking to call the bank and cancel our report of fraudulent activity while he would work on the next trial. The next document he presented to us had mostly the same errors that he had presented the firs time. We had asked to speak to the manager for several weeks and he kept giving us excuses. His phone gets disconnected at his convenience. Some times my text messages would not even go througgh. Finally , after weeks we spoke to the manager (Natasha), who very nicely conviced us to give them another chance. She was removed Sean from the project and assigning us to Angelina. She claimed that after our call she would send us the number for Angelina. She did not follow through with her word to us. At that time we wrote her an email saying that we were done with them and want to get our money back by last Friday. She did not answer my email even though we said if we did not receive the money we would take further action.

They did not provide a receipt, when we insisted they provided a receipt withou an address. Also they delayed sending a contract. By the time they sent it, we had lost trust in them.

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- Bushkill, PA, USA
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I was trying to publish a book using their website. They tried to send me an invoice that required me to download. Their site which was under a different organization called Design CRM was asking for my bank information that caused suspension.

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- Columbia, MD, USA
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I wrote a book about the strokes that had, to help others. The last stroke happens years late that last part, when look for a publisher I saw Amazon publish a book with us. I knew that they sole books. After a long time they would something different. I send them my book online to get an email. I have every email and amount paid. After I said no about getting my book known more. They blocked me out about any information. I kelp asking about my royalty that I never received. I ask that a supervisor or Manger email me I received an email from someone I did not know,

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- Arcadia, CA, USA
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I was scammed by Writers Tree.

I'm a retired CPA specializing in IRS audits and appeals. I advised thousands of clients over 50 years to avoid being scammed. Then I found myself scammed!

I needed assistance in publishing the second edition of my book on " *** ** ***** *** *******" I chose Writers Tree after reading their claim as the #1 Top Book Writing Company and glowing reviews of 4 and 5 stars. Then, my nightmare began.

I hired and fully paid them in June 2023. It's now January 2025 and they have not published my book. What they did, however, was annoy me with unending sales pitch to buy extra services. My wife advised me to stop dealing with them when she noticed that I was constantly arguing with them to stop bugging me.

I dug deeper into reviews and found that they were rated with 1 or 2 stars. How they received glowing reviews, I don't know. I wouldn’t be surprised that they were fake reviews. Even their names are fake. Their HQ address is fake. I found reviews that they operate out of Pakistan.

I lost money from sales during the 2024 tax season and had to visit my doctor for elevated BP from stress from their constant strong arm tactics.

I'm now lodging a complaint with the Attorneys General of the states of California where I live and New York and Florida where they claim to be headquartered. I’d love to connect with ******** * of Charlotte NC and **** * of San Ramon who are also lodging complaints wit the Attorneys General of NY, FL, CA, NC.

I'm a conservative professional and careful businessman but I still fell for these scammers. They’re great at scamming, poor at helping their customers. They were relentless in aggressively selling extra services but did not care about publishing my book. Do yourself a favor. Do not hire Writers Tree. You’ll be sorry.

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- Norman, OK, USA
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Times Square Publishers assured me that they could provide actual shelf-space for my book – ***** **** ** **** ****** (my pen name) – at Barnes & Noble stores across America. Of course, this type of brick-and-mortar access came at a high price. However, after contemplating, I decided this was a once-in-a-life-time opportunity, and consequently parted with over $50,000. Supposedly, the first batch of 4k books was shipped in late September, and supposedly landed on store shelves in the first week of October. However, when I asked my project manager Sasha Barber ([email protected] (442 446 1653 ) for a list of stores, so I could verify my books had, indeed, landed on shelves, she hedged...making up excuse after excuse. Soon, I was informed that Sasha had taken a TWO MONTH leave, and wouldn't be back until January (as expected, I was eventually told she was gone for good!) Naturally, at this point, I became very suspicious. So I began to reach out to other people I had had direct correspondence with. First, I contacted Sasha's boss – Mia Dawson ([email protected] 442 446 1655). Strangely, where there was once always a prompt response, Mia now went missing – she refused to call or respond my email. And the exact same thing could be said for the two financiers – Brad ([email protected]/442 446 6181) and Tracie (442 446 1657) – both are nowhere to be found. So, ALL of the people I had been dealing with had vanished in a matter of less than two months! Now, I was almost certain I had become a victim of fraud. Then, after continuing to try to get a hold of Mia Dawson, who was really the boss of operations, I received a call from a person name Ray (442 446 1698). He was the one who informed me that Sasha was gone for good, and that Tracie was no longer, there and Brad had been moved to a completely new department – it was Brad who convinced me to part with an initial investment of 17K. However, this Ray person said he was now in charge of my project, and assured me that I had nothing to worry about – all would be made well. Well, guess again! Soon, I received a call from Ray, telling me that his manager wanted to discuss the subject of royalties. Apparently, my book had sold quite well, and a significant amount of royalties were headed my way. Well, think again! Turned out, Ray's manager – Henry Miller ([email protected]) attempted to defraud me for the amount of 19k! Here was his tactic: He said that the first 4k books had sold out (I doubt the books were even printed, let alone shipped and sold) and that I had close to 69k coming my way. But here was the obvious fraudulent catch – he said that Barnes & Noble were demanding that I purchase an author's license BEFORE they could release my proceeds. I was clearly informed that if I didn't part with 19k and thus obtain an author's license, I wouldn't receive a single cent of my royalties. Of course, I staunchly objected, and reached out to Barnes & Noble, who informed me that I was, indeed, dealing with fraudsters, that my book had NEVER landed in any of their stores, and that an author's license is NOT required in the U.S., as it is in the U.K. "You've been had," I was informed. So I am contacting you – the ScamPulse.com – to make sure this Barnes & Noble book shelf access SCAM is revealed, posted, and hopefully put to an end, so nobody else has to experience what I have been through – a living hell! I'm also interested in how I can prosecuted these people and recoup some, if not all, of my invested money. Basically, how should I proceed...how should I seek justice? Any advice in these matters would be much appreciated.

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- Costa Mesa, CA, USA
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A user on X messaged me, asking if I wanted both my books to get an audio version. I said I'm willing to get more information. She had her senior consultant, Andrew Parker, reach out to me via email on behalf of Content Unicorns. I even had a consultation call, based in Boca Raton, FL. They seemed legit, but once they gave me the first few chapters of my audiobook to look over, I could tell that it was an AI robo-voice. I said that I didn't want anything to do with it, but they talked me into it. I reluctantly agreed for them to do an audiobook for my first book only and hoped for the best. Unfortunately, I waited several months and I haven't heard back. I emailed them; they ignored it. I emailed them again and again within the next couple of months, now asking for a refund of the down payment; they continued to ignore it. I have Mailtrack, so I've seen them opening my emails many times.

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- Houston, TX, USA
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I was offered a "special" investment opportunity that was supposedly only offered to "exceptional books" from the publisher that were chosen each year. If i paid for the initial batch publications, I would receive a high yielding profit. After sending the funds, nothing has happened except a bunch of stalls and delays. In many instances, no communications for weeks.

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- Lebanon, PA, USA
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Salesperson responded to website inquiry; I thought I was on AmazonPublishing.com, but further scrutiny of expanded e-mail address showed amazondigitalpublishing.com

Project Manager, Shawn Hill, set up appointment for 11 on Monday 9/24. I was at work this day so took lunch early. When I tried to access the website from work the company server tagged the site as malicious, scam, phishing.

The project manager gave me a name of a client and boasted 14+books collaborated. I was able to contact the author and she indicated she worked with Kindle Direct Publishing on all 14 books.

I called my bank to dispute charge while it is still pending so the payment would be held.

Their e-mail signature block claimed they are working from NY, NY 112 W 34th St Floors 18&17 (which was another tip off). I checked with the leasing agent, no record of them renting space, no publishers even on those floors.

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- Surprise, AZ, USA
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Signed with Page88 costing 49.99 a month in Feb 2024 to sell my book. I have sold currently over 100 books and have not received a dime.

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- Boston, VA, USA
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THIS (my attempt at getting my book "published") is not the first time. THIS is "Strike Three" for me - having previously been duped by two OTHER scamming companies!! The "folks" at Global Summit House belong to a HUGE, aggressive Filipino Cloning Group / Conglomerate (that goes by many, MANY different names!!) that contact Independent Authors - MIMICKING Big Publishing Houses, with all sorts of promises about marketing and selling the author's book - once the author sends them the manuscript. After the money has changed hands, there is no apparent effort on THEIR part to make good on their promises (of selling thousands of books - to where major, big-name Publishing Houses will take notice, and want to publish the book THEMSELVES!) - Proof being: No monthly reporting of any sales, or LACK of sales. Future authors should steer WAY CLEAR of this, or ANY "Group," mimicking the Indie-type "Publishing Houses" (which is also a group of scammers, which will be left for another day). Do your due diligence. Don't bite at their ridiculous, outlandish "carrots!" If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't.

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