Tim Heath Author & S.
Avoid This Money-Focused, Morally Empty Company at All Costs
I signed with Visionary Publishers in January 2026, paying a significant fee ($5,500) for what I was told would be a professional book marketing campaign. I also provided additional funds for Amazon ads. The foundation of our agreement was their own words: "performance not activity is the measure of success." The Results Were Disastrous Before they started, I had a natural organic baseline—steady readership built over years. Under their "expert" management, with a team and my ad spend running, sales and page reads declined. Worse, the organic decline I was already experiencing accelerated under their work. They managed to spend thousands of dollars and deliver worse results than doing nothing at all. When I later had their Amazon advertising data independently reviewed, the campaigns showed no strategic targeting, wasted spend, and no measurable return. They simply spent money without delivering results. The Work Was Shockingly Poor When I later had the work they delivered reviewed by industry professionals, the quality was exposed as embarrassingly substandard: The A+ content for one novel names the villain as the protagonist A boxset description opens by calling one of the books a murder investigation—it's a time-travel thriller with no murder investigation Another boxset description describes a book's central technology as "revolutionary" when the entire plot turns on that technology being a hoax Three of the five A+ modules on one title contain no text at all Image alt text is keyword-stuffing rather than description Not one of my book covers appears anywhere in the modules It reads as though it was written from the titles rather than the manuscripts. This is not professional work. This is negligence. They Failed, Then Asked for More Money When I raised the failure of results, they asked for more time to present a new proposal. I gave them that chance in good faith. Instead of addressing the original failure, they sent me a proposal for a completely new direction—asking for an additional $28,000 for physical book fair representation. This had nothing to do with our original agreement and ignored the fact that they had already failed to deliver on what I'd paid for. Two Contracts, Both Breached They eventually offered a "goodwill gesture" of roughly 35% of the fee—a fraction of what I'd paid, and far less than the contract's money-back guarantee entitled me to. I accepted this reduced amount in the spirit of closure. We signed a settlement agreement. They promised payment within one week. They missed that deadline. I reminded them. They then offered to pay only if I removed my review. I removed it in good faith to test whether they would finally honour their word. They did not pay. To date, I have received nothing. A Company Without Integrity They have now breached two contracts. They have failed to deliver professional work. They have asked for more money while ignoring their own failures. They have used a review as a bargaining chip and still failed to follow through. This is not a company that cares about authors or results. This is a company that cares about one thing: money. My Advice to Other Authors Avoid Visionary Publishers at all costs. If they approach you with promises of sales, ask yourself: if they couldn't beat a natural organic baseline with a team and paid ads—and if the work they delivered was this carelessly produced—what will they deliver for you? I have documentary evidence of every claim made above: emails, contracts, sales data, and the professional review of their work. Let my experience be your warning.