Book Writing LeagueReviews of bookwritingleague.com

Do not use this "scam" agency. Detailed and documented experience (my last email). Avoid them. Contract not delivered, kept the money. 1. Almost nine months into this project, with poor to no results. All work was driven by me. 2. None of my concerns are ever answered. 3. Calls/emails asking for more money for extended marketing (2k to 5k) when book issues remain unresolved. 4. Proof issue. You called and said proofs are part of the process, and if the proof had errors, they would be addressed. Proof delivered, no page numbers, gaps between paragraphs and sentences. You blamed me and said you require more money to fix. 5.Incorrect set-up of Amazon/Kindle account by your agency. My email and phone number are what was required, yet Joshua used my email but not my phone number, and you (the agency) had no idea what number he used. Unforgivable. 6. Incorrect posting of Title on Amazon, and not using the summary blurb I provided for the back of the book. Three tries to correct. 7. Incorrect editing, using AI, incorrectly changing words, tenses and meanings. I was forced to edit and review my own work - 2 months of my own time because of your errors. 8. Editorial review - first response, not my chapter titles, but some of my characters in the scenes, no human would do that - again AI? Second review, incorrect, using epilogue scene as the opening chapter??? 9. I provided the book cover, and all you did was change it into a pdf. format. As for the manuscript, you basically changed it from one word document into another. This is what I received for 3999.00 USD. 10. Started a fraud case with credit card company, and the money is gone. The merchant and their bank is uncooperative. 11. Please do not use these people. They lie, oversell, make promises and they do not care. I asked for honesty, integrity, and open communication. They were polite and said they stand behind their work. Once they have the money, then you realize they have completely lied to you. As other reviewers have posted, they experienced the same problems. Fraud at its worst. I believe in karma, and they will pay for their deception and thievery. I stand by this review, and have kept all email correspondence and text messages for record purposes.

I signed a contract with Book Writing League on November 5, 2025, and paid $3,400 on November 7. The only thing I ever received was an electronic book cover design. Shortly afterward, I was asked to purchase a $12,000 marketing package, which I declined. After refusing the upsell, I was pressured repeatedly to submit my book manuscript. Because the pressure tactics felt inappropriate, I researched the company and found numerous public complaints describing similar issues. Based on what I discovered, I decided not to send them my manuscript. I exercised my termination right under Section 7.1 of the contract, and the company acknowledged my cancellation in writing on December 5, 2025. On December 23, 2025, my attorney sent a 30‑day demand letter citing Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93A. The letter stated that accepting my money, agreeing to terminate the contract, and failing to refund the payment constituted an unfair and deceptive act. No one responded by the January 23, 2026 deadline. I have since filed complaints with consumer‑protection agencies in California and Massachusetts, as well as federal agencies. I’m sharing this to help others make informed decisions. Everything here is based on my documented experience and publicly available information. After my experience, I searched for public reviews and found numerous complaints on platforms such as Trustpilot, the Better Business Bureau, and Yelp describing similar concerns. These reviews are publicly available and easy to find by searching the company’s name. “I was contacted by: 1)- Joshua Gibbs regarding my manuscript. 2)- My contract listed Sasha Miller as the compliance manager. 3)- Rae Donnelly emailed me the invoice. By the way, it looks like the same shady pattern is happening again — Joshua Gibbs posting 5‑star reviews for himself to dilute the failing rating. It’s extremely easy for anyone to verify. Just compare the timestamps with the supposed “published books” he claims to have worked on. The inconsistencies speak for themselves.

All I can say is don’t do it. You’ll be sorry! They hide their fraud with incompetence. Try to see how many of these other reviews actually have works published. Unfortunately, I have read others that had similar experiences, But when I look up on Amazon, the people with the five star reviews are nowhere to be found. Their books do not exist. I have made a formal complaint with the FTC and the FBI IC3 unit. I just hope that you learned by my mistake. I have emails that say they will refund me my money but they don’t. It began with them taking the BBB logo with an A+ rating and putting it on their webpage. I have screenshots. I have Proof, the rating on BBB is actually an F rating the worst it can be. All in all they got me for over 12 grand so you might think about it before you make the plunge. At one point in time I received payment for somebody else’s book. I told Joshua about it and he laughed and said it was his his mistake. I’m sure that author never got his money. They truly are fraudulent disguised as incompetent.

DO NOT USE BOOK WRITING LEAGUE!!! There aren’t enough words to fully encapsulate how utterly disappointing it has been to “work” with Book Writing League. I say “work” because I quite literally ended up paying them to do absolutely nothing. I began this process in August. I provided them with 150 poems and asked them for minimal grammatical edits, help on the cover design, and the isbn. Instead they took 2 months to provide me with a complete restructuring of my poems which included changing my words entirely and adding punctuation where it wasn’t needed. The cover designs they provided were completely AI and when I provided a mood board to help them get a better idea as to what I wanted, they literally put everything from the mood board into a weird collage and presented it to me as a cover option. I ended up having to contract an actual graphic designer separate from this company in order to get the cover completed. And just when I thought this 5 month nightmare was over, I go to upload my book to Amazon and they say the isbn is not valid. And since trying to get ahold of anyone at this company during the duration of this project was akin to pulling teeth, I decided to just buy my own isbn- since 3 of the texts I sent today went unanswered and I have no doubt that they will remain that way. Not only do I wholeheartedly believe that no one at this company has even seen a book, I also believe that it has to be a scam in some way. None of the books shown on the site are real books aside from one, and after reaching out to the author months ago and never hearing back, I’m beginning to think it’s fake as well. If I could do it all over again I never would have given them a dime, I would have figured out how to do it on my own (which I basically did since they did nothing), and I would have had this book published 3 months ago like I had originally planned. PLEASE LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE!!!

This company is full of scam artists and crooks. They review your manuscript and tell you it is fantastic; then they try to sell you all of this marketing at an increased cost. They mislead you and try to get every penny they can out of you. Their work is substandard at best, and they offer you things that no one needs, like business cards and stationary, to appear to be helpful;. They are con-artists at best. What a waste of time and money.