AuthorHouse Reviews 986

I received my books in a timely manner.

A great service for authors. Everyone I encountered was helpful and professional. I highly recommend them.
My book turned out beautifully.

SCAM......I was told I would recive 100% royalty, I was also charged nearly £5000 - £6000 to publish my book plus additional £250 for 30 coppies. My book was put online on Amazon, I was then told I would recive payment quartly for purchases. I had family and friends purchase my book to ensure this was true.....it has been over 1 year and I have recived no money, I have tried contacting Author House for a few months now and been blocked, ignored and told I will get a call back. THIS IS A SCAM....they take the initial payment to put the book online and after that you get blocked as they make money of your book and you get nothing. To end the contract means pulling the book and you have to start from scratch but they keep that initial payment. PLEASE DONT USE THEM.....me and my husband used our savings, money from friends, loans and took a risk....for this to happen.

We are currently trying to save up for court which is now costing even more.....and Author House still want contact me in anyway.

Author house only has interest in taking your money and they dont care if ur mentally unwell or wether u know what ur doing at all they made everything sound appealing and say ur novel will be successfull without knowing how successfull it will be they preyed on my every nerve with my story and i had 2 fight tooth and nail getting my money back and they still kept 60 quid of it if ur wanting to publish with these think twice before diving into something tht aint nice. Rilee hoi

Do you know lawyers for this. (Someone said there is a statue of limitations. I don't see this on my contract that after a certain amount of time that they can make money of of my book without paying me. I published my book with Author House in March of 2011. To date I have no idea how many books have been sold. Since then and to date it is being sold all over the internet including by Author House. To date they have paid me around $4.00. If the book is not selling, then why are so many people selling it. The name of the book is When the Enemy comes by Delores Fischer. you can look it up. I have tried asking them many times over the years and i get no answers. When I first published my book they said I would receive $5.00 per book. I tried again today and because I don't have the same phone number or email address they said they couldn't pull up my account. Before when I called they asked my name, name of the book and the ISBN number. I'm in the process of filing a chargeback and contacting a lawyer about this since they're still ripping me off after all these years.

I am very dissatisfied with my project. It is a reflection of my artwork as a writer as well as the education of alterhouses editing skills. Overall it is 90% great but I want to assume I paid for a 100% greatness. Also I would like to mention I am just being aware of the issues on my project that was published through your establishment, because of the extreme late delivery of my free five copy's of my book. I would like to connect with author house and go over these issues. I would also like them to be corrected and reprinted.

Speaking with Virginia and having lay everything out where we were able to understand fully and proceed forward confidently! Her spirit and energy carried us throughout the process!

What do you mean 'this time'? My so called publishing consultant is insincere, bullying and does not listen. They are supposedly publishing a book for me, and she put pressure on me to offer another one for publication. This second book was not even completed, but she wouldn't listen to what I was trying to tell her. She pushed me to pay half of a first payment. I caved in just to get her off my back, as she is very intimidating. I have since scrapped this second book. I informed them in writing, but they have just sent me-unsolicited, an instalment payment plan agreement which obviously I won't be signing! Authorhouse have been horrible to work with. Admittedly, I am not a'digitaI' person, and am 74 years old! This has been a stressful experience which I would never repeat, neither would I recommend them to anyone else looking to get published!

I dislike the fact that choosing my art work illustration we're not completely used as I wanted and the length of time frame it took to finish the children book. I also dislike the price of a children's book. However someone else stepped in to help work on the book and it turned out okay, so I was in between liking and not liking. I still feel like I should have gotten refunded back some of my money. I been with author since 2006 and I know that they can do better. Thank you all.

No accountability for what you say you will provide. No one has put authentic care into my book. I am treated like a number or, worst, nothing. No one reads or is interested in my book.

Lou Olsen worked tireless in the completion of my husband’s novel! She was easy to communicate with and she was professional. I would work with her again.

You did exactly what you said you would do. Answered all of my questions it was easy to reach representatives very satisfied. Thank you.

Hi everybody my name is Tami LYN I am legally blind. I have written two books with author House, but this experience with my book what is Kwanzaa? Has been devastating. this book serves as a reference and resource guide however the mistake of putting the rough draft of my PREFACE in as my final manuscript has left me palmy with tears flowing of sadness. it has been a long journey from the incorrect spellings on the description page where you check out to having wrong covers and the first representative using her words. I am no hater, but being legally blind I depend upon the integrity of those I work with, collaborate and higher. I just cannot believe it I have been out here promoting the book on my 2 feet not computer savvy and this once I read this for myself I could’ve found it. Prayerfully this too shall pass you are so blessed to be able to see your own work and correct mistakes peace Tami LYN

My experience with AuthorHouse surpassed my expectations in every regard. Their exemplary step-by-step service not only simplified what could have been a daunting process but also made it a genuinely enjoyable one.

The staff are very very helpful from support to the coordinators.

The graphic design on the booklet is excellent!!!

I lucked-out.

To busy to even ring and take ages to reply to emails. keep saying someone elses dept and they will contact you. come on ive given you my money.
I was so keen to get my book published (my life in a letter) that I paid the whole amount they wanted in one go, BIG MISTAKE. i am dyslexic on vowels and my Punctuation is not good. i spoke about some to look at my spelling etc. but they didn't,they printed the book as it was. and belive me the book is embarrassing with all the mistakes. The cover although good, was not quite what I wanted. so after five months of trying to get a hold of someone, I got a price list of what to pay to get it right. the trouble with paying up front in stead of each section,they don't tell you where to wright what you want on the front or back or the forward,or even the more from this author. i had no idea how it worked, they said send the manuscripts and a picture of what you want on the cover with a description, they never did anything apart from use the picture. and again no communication, part from the odd email asking another question and not telling me how to do what ever the problem was.
and I still want the book to be republished because it's a shameful mess, and I'm embarrassed to put my name to it. (shabbafret) and I've got to pay more. i don't think the next three books are going to be published with these,

UPDATE
I had a phone call to resolve my concerns, so we will see how it goes; why did it take this to get it moving, though?

Let’s say that it hasn’t gone very well at all. I will review again on a new review
Just saying that they have let me down again.
Ok I have to review on this page so they probably won’t see or do anything about it
I have re written my book ( my life in a letter ) without mistakes in it . They have reprinted the book but you can not get it from anywhere . The old one can be found if you look hard enough . I have emailed everyone I have been in contact with, NO REPLY. Apart from the good lady that sold me 12 copies of my own book that I had to paid for . No freebies , oh wait they did let me have one free. Amazon kindle are the old book. So it is almost impossible to get the new book unless I buy them. Waste of time this company I wish I had gone with anyone else. And will not be using them again for the next two books in the series. Or my poetry.
This review is now June 2024. There reply was months ago and nothing since

Not sorted even after a year
My revised book isn’t available anywhere it’s still the old one on Amazon even though both party’s say it’s available if anyone knows how to and where to buy ( My Life In A Letter from let me know please. Rubbish company

Still not able to buy my updated book my life in a letter.been over a year. Since re writing can not buy from anywhere apart from author house this is no where near good enough just think on if you are

Ok I brought one of my newly revised book from author house that was the new one . And one from kindle that was the old one . I’ve spoke to both party’s and the new book is only available at author house.
This is been going on now for
TWO YEARS
Advice to anyone reading this . Don’t publish with author house full stop