Recent experience with Tate Publishing company out of Oklahoma
Author: John Rigo Date: 09-15-05 14:00
I am a senior citizen and self employed business person who has been writing poetry for a hobby for over twenty years. I started going back to college recently and have been encouraged by individuals with PhD\\\\\\\'s to publish my poetry. I started my search on the net which has proved to be interesting.
Recently I came across Tate Publishing out of Oklahoma on the net. I was fairly impressed with the site (even thought I am a practicing Christian I did find a little too much \\\\\\\"We are a wonderful God-fearing company\\\\\\\" which is generally a \\\\\\\"red flag to me\\\\\\\". Have you ever noticed \\\\\\\"crooks\\\\\\\" are the first to tell you what great Christians they are?\\\\\\\") On my dime I took time to make a phone call and spoke with Janey the manuscript managers whom I was very impressed with. We spoke over the phone for twenty minutes. Based on the conversation, I forwarded my manuscript. I received numerous e-mails encouaging me from that point on to read about the company. I downloaded their brochure which was mainly a picture book with little meat in addressing specific questions. I was aware they reguired a $4000 investment on the part of a \\\\\\\"selected author\\\\\\\" since they spent in little Oklahoma about $16000 to $21000 thousand (so they claimed) of their money to promote a book they selected).
I sent an e-mail to the founder of the company which asked simply \\\\\\\"how many authors had they actually refunded the $4000 to and could they verify that information with a CPA firm? They claimed that they refunded these books when 5,000 books were sold. Since I have been in Marketing and Sales Training for over forty years, I felt my question was a reasonable one. The response I received from the President of the company was both insulting and completedlhy \\\\\\\"off the wall\\\\\\\" indicating this is a \\\\\\\"racket being operated out of Oklahoma\\\\\\\". Run, do not walk away from these folks.
[Please Note: Ryan Tate, President of Tate Publishing, rejects Mr Rigo's description of the contact between himself and Mr Rigo and would like that to be known. (Hamish - WritersNet)]
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