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Initial Complaint
06/02/2024
- Complaint Type:
- Order Issues
- Status:
- Unanswered
This "publisher" breached contract, has not sent royalty reports or payments, and has not responded to phone calls, or written correspondence (by mail or email). She no longer has a publishing business, no website, no editor, just poor legal assistants who she forces to answer the phone and run any of "her" authors around in circles. She has not fulfilled her contracted duties and thinks she is above the law because she is a lawyer. She has kept author's and illustrator's intellectual property and has not fairly compensated them for their work. The author/illustrator of ******** ****** was never paid for his work, yet she still has his book listed online for sale. I want my rights back to my book that was published by this sham company in 2020. I've received only one royalty statement from Jeanne Vinal--and when I asked the editor who was (is no longer) working for the company, Brett A***, for my royalty statement in April 2021 he pretended like he had no idea what a royalty statement was. I was promised an editorial relationship that would grow my career as an author, not a scam nightmare. I didn't "pay" the business anything, but I spent several thousands of dollars in marketing my book.
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Contact Information
193 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14202
Customer Complaints Summary
1 total complaints in the last 3 years.
1 complaints closed in the last 12 months.