Q –
Is Bloodhound Books a legitimate publisher?
Gordon
A –
Bloodhound Books / bloodhoundbooks.com is a legitimate publishing company that has been around since 2014. (HINT: Never do business with a publisher that hasn’t been in business for at least 10 years. Most of them go belly-up, and most of the scam publishing websites from overseas are only a few months to a couple of years old.)
However, all authors needs to beware of imposters. The scammers are impersonating countless real companies now. And, many of those companies have warnings on their websites about that. The one we have on WritersWeekly says this:
ALERT: Nigerian scammers are impersonating WritersWeekly on social media. WritersWeekly NEVER charges writers any money at all. CLICK HERE for details.
I’ll say (I mean write) it again. NEVER RESPOND TO ANYONE WHO SPAMS YOU THROUGH EMAIL OR ON SOCIAL MEDIA, NOR ANYONE WHO CALLS YOU ON THE PHONE UNSOLICITED! Also, beware of scammers contacting you through your website.
SPAMMERS ARE SCAMMERS!
Legitimate publishers (and legitimate literary agents) don’t chase after authors in that manner. Their slush piles are far too high. Assume that anyone contacting you unsolicited is a scammer, because these days, they are!
Look for email addresses that don’t exactly match the company’s website URL (like if they use a Gmail email address). Also, while they may give you the real company’s website in their email to look legitimate, you’ll notice slight differences in the spelling of the company name in the email addresses.
If you’re communicating with the real Bloodhound Books, their email addresses will have this in them: bloodhoundbooks.com
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I’ve been scammed by a ‘legitimate’ publisher called ‘Olympia Publishers’. This used to be a company that had a good reputation for publishing ‘avante garde’ authors like Henry Miller, William Buroughs and Samuel Beckett, etc. And this was why I chose them to do a publishing job for me commencing March 5th, 2025, my 78th birthday.
They are now a ‘Hybrid publisher’; do any publishers still offer a ‘Traditional publishing contract’ anymore? I doubt it. Anyway, the relatively simple task I asked OL to do still hasn’t been done, apart from jointly creating with me, a book cover I can be proud of. It has cost me 2,800 British Pounds and month after month of stress waiting for them to actually finish the publishing job they’d been assigned to do, and get the book out and promote it thru their so-called ‘global network.’
As they are now in breach of their own contract time line by several months, I’ve terminated my business with them. At the last count they had 22% 1-star reviews on Trustpilot, quite possibly a record number.
You’re not the only one. 🙁
COMPLAINTS about Olympia Publishers / olympiapublishers.com
Angela