The Empire PublishersReviews of theempirepublishers.com

Robert Keenan: More people have come forward to point at your for scamming them. You have done with with the several Indian men and women based in Pakistan with revealing IP addresses and their exact location. Asian woman who called herself: Andreaan Stan. You all wil be apprehended very soon. Using the internet to defraud people, hosting a website that is a fraud channel for your crimes and setting up another organization to cover up your tracks will not save you. Your end is new.

I'm giving 5 stars because the people I have worked with have gone above and beyond to help me learn, understand and grow as a new author and have done an amazing job publishing my books. The reels and ads have been wonderful and I get great feed back from them. If or when I have a question or concern they are always there to address them. Because of their dedication to help me succeed, my readers can now order my first book online with Books-A-Million and can be found in select stores on the shelf, which is my ultimate goal. They also offered me the same opportunity with my second book and we are hoping for the same success. The Empire Publishers teams have taught me about the publishing process with all the time and work that goes into publishing. Thank you to everyone. Hannah, kudos to you for helping me and putting up with my panics, anxiety, and computer illiteracy. You are amazing.

Below was a post on Google search The Empire Publishers operating out of Sugar Land, Texas. I cut it and reposted it. I also called Sugar Land Police requesting a verified location of Empire Publishers and was told that question has been brought up before. 10/20/26 update. Even Brian that was doing the work. said he didn't blame me. 00BEWARE BLACKMAIL FRAUD AND DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICE Google Search: The The Empire Publishers operating out of Sugar Land, Texas, is heavily accused of being a predatory vanity press and scam operation rather than facing standard corporate trouble. Key Details & Allegations • Inability to Verify Location: Writers and investigators visiting their listed Sugar Land address have found no physical office or listing for the company in those large commercial buildings. • False Claims: Industry watchdogs like Writer Beware noted that while the company claims on its website to have been established in 2011, public domain registry data shows their web domain was only registered in 2023. • High-Pressure Sales: Authors report being aggressively upsold on expensive, ineffective "marketing packages" that yield little to no genuine distribution or return on investment. • Fraud Warnings: While the company posts its own warnings regarding impersonation and publishing fraud on The Empire Publishers Publishing Fraud Alert, independent consumer complaints and reports to law enforcement characterize the entity itself as deceptive. If you or someone you know has been affected by this company, would you like information on how to file a consumer complaint with the FTC or Texas Attorney General, or advice on how to spot legitimate independent publishers? I paid for 20 book to be printed f0r $400.00 Then I was turned over to A Orlando in marketing since I didn't buy his $1,500.00 marketing they went dark didn't responded to their Basecamp and their phone stopped receiving calls. BLACKMAIL FRAUD AND DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICE

I am writing this review because I believe authors deserve to know exactly what they are paying for before entering into a publishing agreement with EMPIRE. I personally have published three books with Empire first two went down without a hitch the third one nightmare I originally published two books with Francesca, and I had a very positive experience. Communication was good, the process went smoothly, and I felt like I was being treated as a client. Unfortunately, my experience changed significantly when Steven became involved. Based on my experience with my most recent book, my advice to authors is simple: Do your research before paying a publishing company, and understand exactly what they are doing for you. If the primary service being provided is uploading your book to IngramSpark, authors should seriously consider whether they need to pay a publishing company to do that for them. You can create an IngramSpark account yourself, upload your book from your own computer, and work directly with the platform. I also experienced significant communication problems. I requested telephone communication because I wanted to clarify important issues regarding my books and the services I had paid for. Instead, I was told that the company would no longer communicate with clients by phone. In my opinion, that is extremely disappointing customer service. Sometimes a complicated issue can be resolved in a five-minute telephone conversation, while trying to resolve the same issue through repeated messages can turn into days of frustration. I even ultimately had to place a stop payment while trying to obtain clarification about the services being provided. In my opinion, that situation could potentially have been avoided through a simple telephone conversation. What was particularly frustrating was that when I continued requesting a phone conversation, the answer remained NO, and I received written responses that felt more like standardized or AI-generated responses than an effort to actually communicate with me as a client. My experience became even more concerning when I was told that my books would be distributed through more than 50 platforms. I am now questioning exactly what service I received and what was actually done on my behalf. My understanding is that my books were uploaded to IngramSpark, which has its own distribution network. That raises an important question for any author considering a publishing company: Is the publisher actually submitting your book separately to more than 50 platforms, or are they uploading your book to IngramSpark and relying on IngramSpark’s distribution network?

I wasn't happy with the cover concept they sent over. After explaining what I didn't liked, they came back with a much better option. Really happy with how they handled my feedback.

Ned and hisstaff are amazing. There patient towards my novel is without word butiful. THANK YOU

I had a three month Promotion and marketing contract with Empire Publishers. It was for my award winning book, Out For Justice. The team I worked with, led by Brian, created an outstanding visual package of stills and videos that helped increase my sales records. I was more than happy with the results. I rated them 5 stars because I think they went well over the basic package and I was pleased. I highly recommend them for your next book project.

I can't speak to the other reviews they're probably half made up. But I can say I paid $10,000 up feont for a service contract that was never fulfilled. The gentleman Robert Keenan promised amazing things in a phone conversation. He's a great salesman, but they can't follow through with what they are telling you on the phone so don't believe it. you don't need a publishing company to publish a book on Amazon that's easy. They are definitely a predatory company at some level. All I purchased was advertising and promotion services and I think I made over the course of a year $100 and they promised me a return on investment mentioned above. Liars, theives. they did put some good social media campaigns together, but those campaigns garnered no likes no interactions or no return on investment or value. They just tried to upsell the whole time. Robert never responded to communications that I made about my concerns. The company sucks and I advise nobody to go there.