This is so true,.......... Troubador publishers are 'vanity' printers, you pay em, they print it, its not a book deal because your book is so fabulous, its cos you are paying for vanity printing.......but even worse when the book doesnt exist!!!
Exactly! He talked about getting a
publishing deal on the back of what he’d put on insta, and that’s what the contract signing photo was meant to reflect, but it was never a
deal in the way he was suggesting - he was paying, not being paid! And fair play, he sold enough to make a tidy sum through his page, and if he’d taken delivery of them should have signed as promised and sent them out because as Troubador said, that was nothing to do with them. It was a way of him selling something created by a third party for him, which is what lots of people do, but you have to deliver otherwise you’re taking money under false pretences!
Enough really is enough now and the smoke and mirrors won’t cut it anymore. The simple fact that these can never be signed is enough to render the contract void. The delays are an aggravating factor. In fairness to the people who bought this book to support someone they felt a connection with, Lisa needs to refund everyone, and if the book is ever published they can choose, without being under duress, if they want to buy it, either from her or on Amazon, or wherever it may end up, and at a price that represents what it really is - a collection of notes by someone with no previous experience of writing and potentially no great story to tell, about his life. I’m not being unkind, it’s just that he wasn’t going to get knighted for his achievements, and whilst there are plenty of people who write unsolicited biographies I’m not sure many of them charge £25 for them.