Released on: 25, March 2006
, Author: Eddie Bruce
, Audience: Internet related
While awaiting recovery of my short story collection heldhostage by PublishAmerica, I tracked the remarkable ability of this vanity book millto not only to keep one step ahead of the law, but to treat with contempt theircontracted authors and the ever-growing mass of writers' forums campaigning for aninvestigation into their illegal practices.
Let's ignore for a moment the indifference shown by those public bodies paid toprotect their citizens, and examine how PublishAmerica's 125 new signings a day(their latest claim) fall into the evil web spun by Willem Meiners, Larry Clopper,Miranda Prather, Jessica Lewis and other soulless characters who make up theiranonymous and absurdly-named Author Support Team.
Should a misguided friend or spiteful enemy point a novice writer inPublishAmerica's direction, a first logical step should be to undertake a simpleGoogle search. Such a search reveals about 614,000 results, of which probably99.9%, other than book publication announcements, are waving bright red flagsproclaiming "Vanity Press! False and misleading advertising! Stay away!" (ref:http://www.washingtonpos t.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25187-2005Ja n20 ,http://www.absolutewrite.com /forums/showthread.php?t
Source: Express-Press-Release.com
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