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Complaint Review: Lighthouse Publishing/Andy Overett - Internet

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  • Reported By: Bill Watkins, Author — Los Angeles California USA
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Lighthouse Publishing/Andy Overett CreateSpace Self-Publisher in Disguise Took Me for 400 Bucks Georgia and/or Minnesota

*Consumer Comment: Andi and Lighthouse is fair, reasonable and a great way for new Authors to share the word of God and get thier name out.

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I was desperate to publish my book.  As my book had a lot of Christian themes, I thought to pitch it to some Christian "publishers"/agents.  One of those was Lighthouse Christian Publishing, found online.  I sent them an email with my pitch and a manuscript in doc form.

After twenty years of mostly rejections for my work, I was cheered to see that Lighthouse wanted to publish my work!  Some things bothered me about the contract, but I wanted to believe in the deal, and tried to have faith--so after saving money for six months, I finally paid Lighthouse/Andy Overett $399 via paypal to get the "publishing" started.

Soon I found out that Andy was unwilling to let me in on process of being paid/how many books were selling, etc.  So I looked further into his "publishing" process to find he was just a self-publisher with Amazon.com's "CreateSpace.com."  With them, anyone can self-publish and sell books FOR FREE.

When I learned this, and told Andy via email that I wanted to get out of contract to pursue free self-publishing with CreateSpace on my own, he refused to part with any of the $399 I had sent to him.  I told him via email (no phone number for him given--another red flag) that he could keep $200 for the work he had done on the book, and for illuminating me in some ways--about a great free self-publishing/selling service called CreateSpace.com.

He refused to give me ANY money back, taking the full $399 I saved over a six month period.  He never posted the book on his website, so only half the contract was followed--in which he promised to sell the book on Amazon.com.

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#1 Consumer Comment

Andi and Lighthouse is fair, reasonable and a great way for new Authors to share the word of God and get thier name out.

AUTHOR: Jeffery - (United States)

POSTED: Tuesday, June 30, 2020

About 3 weeks ago, I was blessed enough to publish my first book with a publishing company "To Be Saved" with Lighthouse Christian publishing.  While the process was not perfect, it was typically myself who slowed it down and I could not be more impressed with the art for the project. 

I do not expect to get rich, but if I google, To Be Saved by Jeffery Distad, I get 3 different Amazon sites to purchase it, one for American english, one for Great Britian and one for Japan.  I hope that means the book is selling well.  I have self published a few books, and attempted in the past to publish with major publishers.  After sharing my manuscript with over 500 differnt companies. 

I got 2 deals that I would consider.  12 that would have cost $8000- 12000 investments on my part.  Lighthouses deal was the best for me, the book turned out great with any errors really being my fault.  I have already had conversations with other writers and a publisher who also were impressed with what they saw, who I did not know who reached out to me.  I can honestly say, from what I can tell, I just think that some of the complaints have expectations that are way way way to high unless they are already a world famous writer. This was by far the best deal for me. 

My book is available at https://lighthousechristianpublishing.com/collections/childrens-books/products/to-be-saved So you can see for yourself.  God bless you and I pray that God blesses each party involved in a way that shows his hand in our seperate journeys.

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