My book was sold out and they said that i only sold three books they changed their name a it's been a year since i had contact with them my authors portal hasn't been updated in months ... I have proof the robbed me
I republished my book through Litfire and everything seemed o b fine but after two years I have not received any royalty payments for the books they have sold. Last year when I called them about the problem they told me they were sending a check right out. I have yr to receive any check or other form of payment from them. I am trying to contact them by phone but they have the system looped up pretty good . No one answers.
I got a call for lit fire publishing, note when a company calls you, get there name and company name and check them out.
I got a call from kelly summers senior publishing and marketing specialist of litfire publishing who told how great my book spirit travelers was and they wanted me to go on tour and promote my book, because it was so great
They try to rush you in there so called business by saying the slots goes for “first come, first serve” basis and we only have a few opening left, so what card to you want to use you better say none, or you lose your money. They rush you so you do not have time to check them out.
Be for i buy from any bussness i always go to and they tell you how many complaints they have on that company, one credit card company had over 4,500 complants.
I am paul
And the total amount (3 events): $890.00. And if i wanted to do a book singing in atlanta that would be another $800. To do a good webpage $400 total $2090.
They claimed they read my “spirit travers” so i described a scene from harry potter, i said "did you like the chapter where the main character kill the big snake with a sword? I said the snake represents the devil and the sward is the word of god. " she said yes that was great" i said you are a scammer because that chapter was never in my book.
Got a call from "Luis Chandler" today from Litfire - same story ... broken English, sounded Asian or from Philippines. There was the same big tale of "book scouts" being very excited about my book. He said book scouts only recommended 3 books total during the whole month of August so being recommended was a 'very big deal'. He wanted me to transfer from my existing publishing company to them with promises that they could do a much better job to market my book. But when asked specifics of exactly how they would do a better job, I got very broken, indirect, disjointed answers about some International book fair in Guadalajara and other locations such as Frankfort. He also talked about Author House (which is not the company I published through) saying it was a sister-company of my publisher. I haven't found any evidence of that being true. When I asked what they would do for me that my current publisher was not already doing, he never really answered the question directly. Interestingly, "Luis" also kept saying "oh, hold on, my manager is really excited about this and wants me to ask you if .... " - LOL, this is huge used car sales tactic. He kept referencing Cami Onolfo as an example of one of their amazing "success stories" of someone who was not getting what they really needed for marketing and promotion from their existing self-publishing company, but after signing with Litfire she became a huge success. I looked her name up on Amazon and found a book (see for yourself), but she barely shows up on a Google search at all. He told me that after years of no success on her book, she had transferred her book to Litfire and it had been picked up by a big traditional publisher quickly because they had an "in" with the big publishing companies. The price to switch over was $599 because they had contacted me instead of me soliciting them (discounted from $1400). I asked what's in it for them to market my book to traditional publishers. It seems if they want to publish my book because they think it is good enough for them to make $$$ on with better marketing, but then also want to promote my book to a traditional publisher where they will no longer make $$$ on it, it seems like a conflict of interest to me and it makes no sense at all. He never really answered the question. He strangely kept asking if I had my manuscript in .pdf or if I still had the original version. Now, he has sent lots of emails with attachments for contracts and such. I am now curious if there would be anyway for them to troll to find my typed manuscript if I download the attachment. Would my book show up somewhere in the Philippines under a different title ... crazy conspiracy, but this is strange. Anyway, sharing my story to add to the ongoing saga in hope that it might help someone else not get taken advantage of. What a waste of my day :(
I received a call A few moments ago from a Portia Rollins. After reading the post from http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2014/11/solicitation-alert-litfire-publishing.html I realize just how bad they are scamming, as one of their main marketers uses different names. I was told that my book was very interesting and that they had read it she then proceeded to say that it had a great story to it. when I asked if she enjoyed the dancing firefighters scene, she then proceeded to say yes that was a great scene. Guess what there are no dancing firefighters in my book. So obviously full of crap. Have a nice day Litfire I will be reporting furiously.
LitFire Publishing LLC Reviews
My book was sold out and they said that i only sold three books they changed their name a it's been a year since i had contact with them my authors portal hasn't been updated in months ... I have proof the robbed me
No royalty payments
I republished my book through Litfire and everything seemed o b fine but after two years I have not received any royalty payments for the books they have sold. Last year when I called them about the problem they told me they were sending a check right out. I have yr to receive any check or other form of payment from them. I am trying to contact them by phone but they have the system looped up pretty good . No one answers.
Scam
Poor sod called me, stumbling over every other word. Made big promises without any coherent details. Avoid these people and block their numbers!
Litfire publishing is a big scam and fake.
I got a call for lit fire publishing, note when a company calls you, get there name and company name and check them out.
I got a call from kelly summers senior publishing and marketing specialist of litfire publishing who told how great my book spirit travelers was and they wanted me to go on tour and promote my book, because it was so great
They try to rush you in there so called business by saying the slots goes for “first come, first serve” basis and we only have a few opening left, so what card to you want to use you better say none, or you lose your money. They rush you so you do not have time to check them out.
Be for i buy from any bussness i always go to and they tell you how many complaints they have on that company, one credit card company had over 4,500 complants.
I am paul
And the total amount (3 events): $890.00. And if i wanted to do a book singing in atlanta that would be another $800. To do a good webpage $400 total $2090.
They claimed they read my “spirit travers” so i described a scene from harry potter, i said "did you like the chapter where the main character kill the big snake with a sword? I said the snake represents the devil and the sward is the word of god. " she said yes that was great" i said you are a scammer because that chapter was never in my book.
LitFire Scam
Got a call from "Luis Chandler" today from Litfire - same story ... broken English, sounded Asian or from Philippines. There was the same big tale of "book scouts" being very excited about my book. He said book scouts only recommended 3 books total during the whole month of August so being recommended was a 'very big deal'. He wanted me to transfer from my existing publishing company to them with promises that they could do a much better job to market my book. But when asked specifics of exactly how they would do a better job, I got very broken, indirect, disjointed answers about some International book fair in Guadalajara and other locations such as Frankfort. He also talked about Author House (which is not the company I published through) saying it was a sister-company of my publisher. I haven't found any evidence of that being true. When I asked what they would do for me that my current publisher was not already doing, he never really answered the question directly. Interestingly, "Luis" also kept saying "oh, hold on, my manager is really excited about this and wants me to ask you if .... " - LOL, this is huge used car sales tactic. He kept referencing Cami Onolfo as an example of one of their amazing "success stories" of someone who was not getting what they really needed for marketing and promotion from their existing self-publishing company, but after signing with Litfire she became a huge success. I looked her name up on Amazon and found a book (see for yourself), but she barely shows up on a Google search at all. He told me that after years of no success on her book, she had transferred her book to Litfire and it had been picked up by a big traditional publisher quickly because they had an "in" with the big publishing companies. The price to switch over was $599 because they had contacted me instead of me soliciting them (discounted from $1400). I asked what's in it for them to market my book to traditional publishers. It seems if they want to publish my book because they think it is good enough for them to make $$$ on with better marketing, but then also want to promote my book to a traditional publisher where they will no longer make $$$ on it, it seems like a conflict of interest to me and it makes no sense at all. He never really answered the question. He strangely kept asking if I had my manuscript in .pdf or if I still had the original version. Now, he has sent lots of emails with attachments for contracts and such. I am now curious if there would be anyway for them to troll to find my typed manuscript if I download the attachment. Would my book show up somewhere in the Philippines under a different title ... crazy conspiracy, but this is strange. Anyway, sharing my story to add to the ongoing saga in hope that it might help someone else not get taken advantage of. What a waste of my day :(
I received a call A few moments ago from a Portia Rollins. After reading the post from http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2014/11/solicitation-alert-litfire-publishing.html I realize just how bad they are scamming, as one of their main marketers uses different names. I was told that my book was very interesting and that they had read it she then proceeded to say that it had a great story to it. when I asked if she enjoyed the dancing firefighters scene, she then proceeded to say yes that was a great scene. Guess what there are no dancing firefighters in my book. So obviously full of crap. Have a nice day Litfire I will be reporting furiously.