Publish America: Making Books

[Peder]

Many thanks for the suggestion. ABC.
That looks like a good lead into the literature.

 

[Hugh]

Just found this on Wikipedia:

Acceptance of hoax manuscripts
In an attempt to demonstrate a lack of editorial oversight at PublishAmerica, several authors have written "sting" manuscripts. For instance, in December 2004, PublishAmerica agreed to publish the novel Atlanta Nights, which was later revealed to be a hoax.[13][14] PublishAmerica also accepted another author's manuscript which featured the same 30 pages repeated ten times.[13]

http://web.archive.org/web/20050217092254/www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30389

 

[PlaypitsPark]

Pig in a Poke. If you don't know what that is, Google it.

 

[sparkchaser]

I miss Hugh.

 

[MadBen]

A vanity press that lies about its status as such and on top of that keeps writers from going to real publishers with their books afterwards. Sounds like the worst case scenario. I hope this defamation campaign is succesful enough to save most victims that might otherwise have gotten trapped as well.

 

[readsalot]

I heard PA was bad before I ever checked them out. So I just avoided them.