Global Summit House review: bad, mysterious treatment 9

I have never spoken to Racquel, but I keep getting calls (which I only answer if I have the time to mess with them) and emails from a Red Blake. However, I also get calls from three companies - there's a Sarah, Miranda, and an Andrea - and they are all from different "media companies." They all speak in the same, low, husky voice with the same Filipino accent. They have the same pitch, word-for-word. "Our scout has recommended your book to us. He gave it a score of 8.7, and that is a high score..." and it goes on and on. But it is strange that their scout always scores my book at 8.7. They were calling me every day, sometimes all three on the same day. They don't understand the word "No" so I mess with them a bit depending on my mood. One of them told me how much money I would make for just $6, 000. They guaranteed I would earn me at least ten times the amount I invested every month. Nice one. I asked her if she'd like to be my agent. If she was so confident that my book would earn $60, 000 a month, I suggested she pay the $6, 000 and I will pay her 25% commission - she would get her investment back in the first month and reap 2-1/2 times the investment every month.

Her sister called the next day to make the same offer. She introduced herself and asked me how I was doing (health-wise, I think), and I was ready - I launched into an explanation of the amount of research I had to do on my book and she tried to cut in with "uh" and got no more than two or three words of a sentence because I wouldn't stop talking. I spoke fast and wouldn't let her get a word in edgewise. If I paused to take a breath, she would try to speak, but I was off again. After about 15 minutes I heard the heavy sigh, but I carried on for another ten minutes. There was no other sound on the other end since the sigh, and I wondered if she even there, so after 25 minutes I paused. Then I asked "Hello? Are you still there?" Her voice sounded rather flat and dull. "Yes, I'm still here, Mr. Triggs, I was going too----" Me, cutting her off in an excited voice: "Oh, good. I thought you's fallen asleep and I'm getting to the most exciting part-- you're going to love this----" and I went off again at a hundred miles an hour.

Ten minutes more - I stopped in mid-sentence. "Oh darn, I have a customer. I have to go and take care of them."
"Can I call you back tomorrow."
"Sure, you can. I'm almost finished giving you an overview of the first book, and I still have five more to go... oh, and by the way, you may want to bring your sister's up to date on the first book when you're sitting around the dinner table tonight."
"Sisters?"
"Yeah, Sarah, Andrea, and Red... this is Miranda isn't it?"
Hesitant, "yes"
"No, no, I'm sorry, you introduced yourself as Sarah. You must be a really unique family. It's rather unusual that four sisters happen to hold the same position in four different companies. I can't imagine what the conversation must be like around the dinner table every night."

I never got another call for about two months. Until today. Global Summit called again, sent an email. I save all my emails to a folder each month (I delete at the end of the month), and so far this month, I have 44 emails. The record for one month is 137 :/

Just received a message from them today! Thanks so much for this review...saved me from yet another scam!
Anne Durand-Athy
secretsofthenire.wix.mybook

I had a call from Arthur Dwayne re interest I had shown in their marketing my books on a commission basis. I thought this was strange as it would have been about 1.00 AM in the US at this time . I commented on his Philippine accent The guy got up tight about this I then explained I had a bad experience with Xlibris and their money chasing Philippine operators
I then told him a story of an Amy Smith from a New York office who had a similar spiel for marketing my books. She had a back-ground noise of roosters crowing. I commented on this and explained that I had been a farmer and the rooster crow was not the normal farm rooster or a Bantam rooster but sounded very much like the cock fighting Asian rooster. I told her she was calling from a village in the Philippines. She admitted to this inn the end. Be careful every Author there are more crooks in the publishing industry tan there are in the government . I have four books Opal Eggs Of Fire. The Opal Dragon, Great White Shark Tales and xxx rated Bernado's Circus. sick to death of crooks on the phone James Calderwood

That is why they are called VANITY PRESS. They feed on our vanity. Sadly, fellow authors who are now struggling more than ever due to this pandemic, we must pick up our pages and march forward, forgetting what is behind and forge our goal to write books and to publish them, with or without money. Our life is our books, our minds are fragile and wonderful and we must keep our sacredness for our dedicated work. Not everyone in VANITY PRESS is a crook, not everyone in the Phillipines is dishonourable, there are some good eggs there and very many poor people striving for a living.
When I read all of the above messages, I feel empathy, having been stung by this rogue BEE (VP) in the past and lost loads of money, but being hacked recently by 3 persons of Indian speech, I feel that crookedness is rampant all over the globe. Is the Lord of Heaven mad with us all because of these folk, along with crooks everywhere we look, in Governments, Religion, Banks, Army and in our homes? Yes, and the sooner this racket is stopped the sooner we can live in peace again. We just wanted to write our stories and publish them. And that is not a crime. Keep sane and write again.

I have not learned a bad thing about these people yet. They are kind and sweet and do what they say they will. Now Legaia, that is another rotten egg to me. They up and closed up shop with my books and royalties with them. 3 books and 3 years of hard work.

If you just want to write a book for a small group of people and sell it yourself, you can do this for a very small fee, which includes the ISBN number. You need to be prepared to charge your prospective customers rather more for the book, than a traditional publisher would charge. I am not sure about Amazon, but this is the business model for BOD a company based in Germany. I published a book for my wife which had some colour pages and paid Sfr. 25 to register and obtain 1 ISBN number. You need some PC expertise, designing the cover was a little tricky. My wife paid Sfr. 14 per book for the printing and sold them typically for about Sfr. 24. I think she bought 50 books which is a realistic number. If you have a name and travel around speaking to people, you can probably sell more. Unless you have a name, a reputation and the likelihood of writing several successful books, no publisher or agent is going to approach you directly. Such emails are all scams, many operating from the Philippines for some reason. Be warned!

Recently, I received a call coming from this company. I was surprised that they already know much about my book, and I had a great time talking with them. There are already a number of publishing companies out there. By the look of it and from my research, this Global Summit House looks fine to me. If you carefully browse Amazon, you can see that they have already published numerous titles. Though, it shows that they are still a startup company. And I have nothing against that.

I tell them to read my entire 500+-page book before even talking with me. Then I will quiz them on it to make sure they read it. If they don't pass this test, I won't even talk with them. How can they represent your book if they don't even know what it is about? That's a good way to determine if they are legit or not.

I asked them to read my entire 400+-page book before even speaking to me because how can they possibly represent me if they don't know what it is they're selling? Then quiz them on it to see if they really read it. If not, why go with a company who won't even learn what they are selling?