Archway PublishingReviews of archwaypublishing.com

They are an excellent publisher but don't promote your book and are high price for publisher

I am impressed with the quality of the finished book, but I cannot afford the price. I will not be able to publish any more books due to the high cost.

I think the marketing department is slow and not connected. Levi was great but others have been unresponsive or dismissive. I am still waiting on my website which is critical for sales generation. Douglas J

The final book product and listing on Amazon is great. However, the process to get there was difficult due to poor communication and lack of responsiveness to simple questions.

Spent over $2.3k and received zero marketing support. No ARCs. No last chance to review the actual print copy. Not sure of the value here.

I try not to be a hardass when working with "lots of working parts" organizations but I have to join the ranks of the 3-stars-or-less reviewers here. I am still in-progress with my book release so we'll see how the "9 Reviews" service works out. I initially bought the Social Media campaign and to be true they refunded it pretty quick (a couple weeks) when I asked, BUT I had to dog them, like I've had to do on everything. Their "author rep" staff just seem to be of the lower-IQ range, naturally inept and/or untrained/unthreatened. I don't know where they get these people or why they keep them on. I too was dazzled by the Simon & Schuster umbrella but Archway is definitely a company of its own. I've written to upper-management people at both S&S and Archway, alerting them to the unpro style and bad lags and/or always-deficient sort of communications and how can they possibly expect to compete in the market with a style like that, etc, but no responses from them yet. They don't appear to give a damn. On the plus side, the content/quality of the hardcopies was very good, once I could get the production dept to make the corrections! I wouldn't bother with them, there have to be other publishers that do better than this. S&S are you listening?! I will update this review as services finalize, to whatever results. 6/19/26 - thanks Eugene for quick response and chance to communicate in detail. Bumping this review up to three stars, will monitor further performance :)

In general, the experience was okay. However, a question I asked about empty pages was not answered correctly. Little things like these mean a lot. The printed copy has empty pages that could have been used. I also missed a typo that I want to fix.

To write a book is very, very hard and the publishing world has changed a lot. This is a project that costs a lot of time and money. The people at Archway were super patient with me and kind. Their professionalism was superb. It does seem that they are only eager to answer calls or speak to you if they are trying to sell you things (editing or marketing packages for example). I was very happy with the overall product of my book and got great feedback on it which was nice. As far as any help with marketing -expect this to be totally do it yourself! I don’t see how the press releases did anything for example…. I also do not think Archway has the best reputation- many bookstores don’t want to deal with them. If you want to publish a book, and can’t find an agent then yes, go through Archway. They only care about the sales of the services tho. They will not help you sell your book. This is very, very do it yourself and you are very much on your own to figure things out. It was hard to do as a single mother of a three year old with a mom dying of cancer. However, the more time and money you have to create a book—- the easier it will be for you. It cost me a lot of money for childcare and editing services which I hired on my own. My packages was expensive FOr Me $5,000. I don’t know if it was worth it at this point because I found it to be very difficult and expensive. However I also fall at the poverty line.