Litfire Publishing Scammers - Authors Beware
A LitFire employee began calling a few months back claiming that a book scout noticed and highly-recommend a book we already have been self-publishing and selling (for years). He left his name, with no company affiliation, and stated that he wanted to talk to us about taking our book, under their company, to a big publishers convention next spring. This employee named himself and left a phone number and extension.
We didn't return his call.
This didn't stop his enthusiasm. He continued to call, pretty much, daily. Sometimes twice a day. I once answered and told him that we had received his message and that IF WE WERE INTERESTED we would CALL HIM. (hint, hint). Less than a week later, the calls resumed - pretty much daily, sometimes twice a day. Finally, after almost three months, he left a company name - LITFIRE PUBLISHING.
So I went hunting and found many a such complaint and I noticed that folks aren't comfortable with this company. Well, we certainly won't be dealing with them. They should "get a clue" and STOP CALLING. In my humble opinion, no legitimate publisher will HARASS people via cold calls. So, fellow authors BEWARE and BE AWARE.
Thank you, Victoria Strauss.
Sincerely,
A fellow author and family
Who are SO TIRED of the ***, seemingly endless --- and unreturned --- phone calls and messages.
Location: Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
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False Allegation from fake people.So sad.
Another fake review from accrispin.blogspot.com.All threat with class action lawsuit just to scare the people and no one fills one.Litfire Publishing is one of the best self-publishing company which threaten the network made by Ann Crispin and Victoria Strauss to catch new authors and steal their work. Be aware from Ann Crispin and Victoria Strauss and their associates.
These are the worst people I have dealt with. They give you an original price and then keep changing it. If there are enough complaints I want to file a class action lawsuit.
I agree and would be in on the lawsuit if someone would just pull the trigger. I believe the problem to be financial.
One would have to go after them in their own country if you could actually locate them. I now know who does their printing and distribution due to the new account I have with the same company. I filed copyright infringement violation with in this company and still cannot find out how many of my books they have sold. At least they shouldn't be selling any more of my book.
I put in for a title transfer into my account which is something LitFire have to allow so I will wait to see if it happens.
Our copy rights as authors isn't worth much as long as there isn't any way of holding publishing companies accountable. All of us in the Journalism world need to make some noise.