Bellevue Publishers

Proceed with utmost caution if you want to print or publish a book with Bellevue. Ill start with the positives My hard-cover books are beautifully bound using good-quality paper and printed in a crisp clean type font. Somebody at this company clearly went to a lot of trouble with photo layout so that the overall appearance is very attractive. Moreover the last project manager I worked with was very efficient and completed the work in about three weeks.However these good points do not outweigh the bad. First of all they lie. Second they are hopelessly disorganized. Lastly they are very expensive.From the beginning the individuals working on my book misrepresented themselves as being a large well-known UK-based publisher even creating fake email addresses and receipts using that companys name logo. I did NOT work with the same project manager from start to finish and -- claims on their website to the contrary -- the work almost certainly was NOT being done in the US. And while neither fact is relevant -- the world of work has after all become global -- I dont understand why they lied. I DO care that this project -- 20 copies of a little 54-page book -- took over eight months to complete. Their disorganization bordered on incompetence and under no circumstances will they admit fault. For instance although my contract included editing they not only overlooked my errors but made their own which they would fail to fix despite my pointing them out repeatedly. They asked me twice for additional money which I paid. I did finally receive my books but discovered that the back cover and dust jacket had an entire line of text omitted. I asked for the omission to be fixed and to have 20 corrected dust jackets overnighted to me -- a very reasonable remedy which would have satisfied me at very low cost to the publisher but the project manager refused stating that I had signed off on the book. This is false I approved a PERFECT cover and jacket that did not contain the omission what I received is NOT what I approved. When I referred to the project managers supervisor with emails and jpeg that support my claim she promised to look into it. As of today however I have not heard back and honestly would be quite surprised if I did they all have a funny habit of not returning phone calls of needing to take emergency leave and passing me on to yet another project manager when I become too irksome. In hindsight I should probably have just taken the manuscript to a printer rather than a publisher but I wanted help with formatting and typesetting and hoped as well to receive genuinely useful editorial assistance -- so I shelled out nearly 3500 I cannot recommend this company.

I wrote a book and I wanted to publish it on a different publishing platform and they did a amazing work they did every thing like formatting editing publishing I am satisfied with their work overall.