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Publish America has been one huge disappointment for many would be authors, including me. Like so many other people being new to writing, new to Internet scams, new to publishing I set myself up for failure with Publish America. I had thought myself lucky to have avoided the so called vanity press publishing companies. You know what, if they advertise they are a vanity press or a self publisher at least they are being honest. Publish America sells a lot of hype and uses all the carefully worded sales pitches it takes to lure the writer in.

Being an honest person I still believed that an ethical company would not accept a book just to trap the writer into spending money. I thought they would read the story, send it back with editing or re-writes and help a writer produce a market worthy book. They are a traditional publishing company so, of course, they want the highest quality of book unlike those vanity presses; imagine how people feel when they realize the truth.

My book was a story inspired by an actual event but my creative mind took the story into conspiracy, murder and intrigue. Publish America said it was worthy of publishing. They sent me the contract and I had a local attorney look it over. The attorney said it was very vague but not bad. So I signed it, I have been trying to get them to let me out of the contract for several months now or at least get them to edit my book! The impasse is I can't sell the book in the current status, not edited; they won't let me out of the contract because they say it is marketable as is.

From all the email contacts with Publish America while working on the book I had been duped into believing they were actually editing my book. I had edited with spell check, grammar check and had friends read it. I sent in hundreds of change/errors as I tried to edit my own writing per Publish America's instructions. Still I assumed it would have a final edit by the "real" editor for the company. I never dreamed that a big publishing company would allow material full of errors out with their name on the cover!

Publish America is not a traditional publishing company. This company feeds off thousands of writers, would be writers as well as a few pretty good authors. The business is sign them up and get them to pay Publish America's inflated book prices plus not get any royalties on books purchased by the author. The books are so riddled with typo's and errors they are not suitable for serious marketing by anyone. Even in my small

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