Archway PublishingReviews of archwaypublishing.com

This company is no better than an MLMS. Poor communication on their part, extended deadlines, lack of support has been my experience with this company. I signed up for one of their packages to publish my first novel that was supposed to include editing, marketing that sort of thing. My first red flag should have been that the only inclusion of these items in my package was an additional phone call from a marketing team member attempting to get me to spend even more money for an additional service. They were not concise on when my book would be ready to publish, so I missed the opportunity for an official launch, and my "free author copies" didnt arrive on my door step until 2 months AFTER my official publication date. A little difficult to promote your work when you don't even have it. Royalties and data are a joke. They keep over half of what you make. And your statistics for the previous quarter aren't even available until 60 days after the fact.

have not received hard back books

I paid for a 6k publishing package to republish my children's book. For the electronic proofs they threw the pages together so that the text doesn't match up with the pictures. What a mess! I don't understand why they sent me such a scrambled mess of text pages and illustrations when it was all laid out with Trafford. I wouldn't bother with this company. Too much work to straighten out the manuscript with the pictures.

After the initial consultation it went sour. I had a very unkind person judging and criticizing my work, and she seemed to be sabotaging my project. Things were approved by one person, then declined by another. Very confusing and frustrating. It took 11 months to publish a short book, it was a nightmare right up to the end.

Do not go with this publishing company!!!! First time authors please be cautious and careful! This company is fraught with lies and deceit. They claim they’re archway from Simon and Schuster when you call one number and then when I called another number to reach a different employee, the automated message said thank you for calling author solutions. If I didn’t hear it with my own ears, I wouldn’t have believed what I read online about someone saying that if this company tells you they’re Simon and Schuster they’re lying. You guys are the biggest liars and scammers I have ever encountered and I’ve encountered some pretty nasty scams in my life. I then looked at the pricing that archway charges for all the types of promotion that they offer. The prices were absolutely crazy! No one realistically pays that much up front to be promoted…..for anything!!! Unless they’re just super naive. Then when I received a sample of my edited manuscript back, the spacing was suspicious. BIG red flag!!! Then I was told that archway has professional editors…yea okay. They just use a Chicago site to edit your manuscript. They don’t use actual people who comment and offer suggestions. I could’ve just used grammarly and saved myself $650 bucks. And then they kept reeling me back in to staying in my contract when I kept telling them I was in a really bad car accident and have two huge hospital bills pending. You would THINK you would say I’m sorry I’ll see what I can do to help you get relieved of your contract. But no. I kept getting pressured to stay and felt trapped and like I was aching to get out. Then I was told I was too far into my writing process to receive any kind of refund which WASN’T true!!!! I actually qualified for a 50% refund and was only in the first step out of the 3 steps indicated to me in the full publication process. New authors, pleeeeeeeeease do yourselves a favor and stay far far far away from archway!!!!!…..like almost every review and YouTube video I’ve seen has said. They are a scam like I’ve never seen a scam!!! Do yourself a huge favor and go with a different publisher.

They read 17 pages and start telling you you need a few thousand dollars worth of editing. I designed my own cover; they own it. Royalties: 10% on your paperback. You have to pay 90% for your own copies. The thousands of dollars you give them are ill spent. Really, you are not paying for professional advice. you do all the work and they charge you for it. Disgusting

Buyer beware before choosing this company to self-publish. Don't bank on their tenuous relationship with Simon & Schuster; it won't appear on any product Archway provides.

They will take your money and do no work, then lie about it.