LifeRich PublishingReviews of liferichpublishing.com

I doubt highly anyone there actually read my book. I got no feedback on content. I would guess that self-publishing works this way: the more money you are willing to pump into getting your work exposed, the more it will, regardless of content. All promotion was left in my lap. The price tag appears to be due to the connections with a printer and venues that will carry the title, like Amazon and/or Barnes & Noble, nothing more outside of some potentially helpful hints concerning self-promotion. This may be a sound business model for turning fiscal profit, but as far as making a genuine impact in the literary world that can positively aid a potential reader, I see it as a failure, given that quality of textual content has absolutely nothing to do with the publisher's efforts (again, given that no one probably even read it at LifeRich).

I emailed Denise Jeffries on 12/22/22 about book marketing kit that I had not received. There has been no response.

Some thing I want to say. Nothing is communicated to me unless I ask. This is my first book and I know nothing about royalties and such, but no one made any effort to communicate that detail until I asked. When I first contacted LifeRich, I was told my book would be published in November. It was finally done in May the following year. I provided everything that was needed. The communication was very poor to say the least. My book was already put together in printer ready form when I sent it in Word Nevertheless it was printed with pictures on one page and text on the next, that's not what I asked for. I did not intend for the illustrations to take up one whole page, text and pictures should have been mixed together. Because of that, there were more pages than I had bargained for.

I felt like the most important part for LifeRich in this project was the amount of money they could secure from the author and no real help without a price.

My author's rep. lost files, and I had to submit the same photos/documents more than five times. Questions were seldom addressed completely. She never answered her telephone extension and her answers when provided by email were oftentimes incomplete. It was a very frustrating experience, and one I hope to NEVER have again with any publishing company.

Publishing with LifeRich was a chore that I was not expecting to have to endure. After polishing my manuscript at home, I bought pictures from a site that allows for use of photos with permissions. I was offered a plan for publishing with LifeRich and chose to try to use color photos. There were only two choices available in a color format and I chose one. This format only allowed me to include 20 of the 150 photos I planned to use. i submitted my forms, my ms, and 20 photos. The original consierge turned me over to another manager who submitted the ms to editing. I was unable to communicate with the editors, so they changed the format and I could not discuss the changes to come to a solution to our differences. When I got the “proofs” I was feeling under pressure and got confused. I submitted the forms for approval by mistake, but was not given an opportunity to rescind them. There was no discussion about the e-book which should have had a different introduction. The design work was wonderful and the cover was great. The final outcome is satisfactory, but I struggled to get past the poor communication and the high cost for the book publishing.

Liferich was good to work with but I am still waiting for Royalty checks from last year. David Potter

The selection of photos for cover was rather poor. The staff did not appear motivated to produce high quality with the book. I had to chase after them to correct errors. The media blast did not produce a single sale and sales reports have been incomplete.