stephen a.

Lupine Publishers LLC is the biggest group of predatory publishers on the internet today. I have been a victim of their fraud. The publishing house has successfully scammed 600 dollars out of my bank account along with countless precious hours of my life.

I wanted to publish a children's book that contained rhymes and short stories. After looking up a few publishing houses on the internet, I came across the Lupine Publishers LLC. Initially, the Lupine Publishers LLC seemed very genuine and there was almost no hint of a scam at all. I had no clue that I was being looped in by the fake good image created by these predatory publishers. After searching for a while, I came across a couple of negative reviews and complaints against Lupine Publishers LLC on a couple of different websites. However, the number of positive reviews clearly outnumbered the few negative reviews against Lupine Publishers LLC. So, I decided to go ahead with the Lupine Publishers LLC despite the few negative reviews on the internet.

I contacted the Lupine Publishers LLC back in May 2018 for the book that I wanted to publish. I dropped a mail at their official ID listed on the website. As soon as I dropped the email I received an automated response which stated that Mike from their team will contact me back in 24 hours. To be honest, I was genuinely impressed with Lupine Publishers LLC since I did receive a call from Mike the very same day! With such a commitment to customer satisfaction, I was sure that I was going to have a pleasant experience with Lupine Publishers LLC. I never expected the predatory publishers to provide such a bad customer service experience.

Who knew that the experience would eventually turn out to be anything but pleasant. With the initial impressions, the con publishers at Lupine Publishers LLC seemed very professional. The first call with Mike was friendly and simple. Mike genuinely seemed interested in my book and urged on publishing it soon. With an extremely friendly tone and great on-call experience Mike never made me feel that he was part of a group of con publishers.

After the call, I received another email, this time directly from Mike. I was a little surprised to see that Mike sent me an email from his personal Gmail ID instead of the official Lupine Publishers LLC one. On this email, Mike asked me to share a soft copy of my book so that his team can proofread and review it. I did not suspect anything fishy here with Lupine Publishers LLC, so I sent him the soft copy immediately. Mike said that he will review the book and get back to me in one month.

At this time, I started suspecting the foul intentions and truth in the negative reviews against the Lupine Publishers LLC. My book was only 56 pages long. So, I wondered why would Lupine Publishers LLC take a month to review it. Anyways, I played along with the tricks of these predatory publishers for a while.

After 10 days, I received another email from Lupine Publishers LLC. This time, Mike said that he needed 1000 dollars from my end so that they can correct all the grammatical errors in my book. Now, my suspicion for a scam grew deeper. Why did Lupine Publishers LLC need 1000 dollars to correct grammatical errors? I have been writing for 3 decades now and I am pretty sure that my written skills are good. I rarely make any grammatical or spelling errors. I was detecting fraud and thought about lodging a complaint against at Lupine Publishers LLC.

I responded to Mike saying that I cannot send them 1000 dollars since I do not think that the book requires any grammatical corrections. I had caught the Lupine Publishers LLC red-handed. Mike responded back saying that I am right and that the previous email was not meant for me. Instead, they planned on sending the email to someone else.

The predatory publishers at Lupine Publishers LLC were starting to show their true colours. I wanted to back out of the deal, but I had already shared my book with them. So, I decided to play along. After a week, Lupine Publishers LLC again sent me an email asking for 600 dollars to add pictures and send me a copy of the book. I thought that this was a genuine request since it was a kid's book. So, I transferred 600 dollars to the Lupine Publishers LLC account.

To my surprise, I never received any receipt or invoice confirmation email from Lupine Publishers LLC. After a couple of days, I tried contacting Mike for the receipt but his phone number was now unreachable. Now I thought that all the negative reviews against Lupine Publishers LLC were in fact true. So, I tried dropping another email to both the official email of Lupine Publishers LLC as well as Mike. Both the emails bounced.

Now, I was sure that Lupine Publishers LLC was a group of predatory publishers. I had no other way to contact or register a complaint against Lupine Publishers LLC anymore. I did not have an invoice copy too which I could show to the necessary authorities.

Getting into business with the predatory publishers at the scam run by Lupine Publishers LLC was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I wish I never heard the name of Lupine Publishers LLC in the first place.

I am posting this complaint and negative review against the con publishers at Lupine Publishers LLC on this forum so that other writers like me can stay away from this fraud. I have also lodged a complaint against the predatory publishers in several other forums asking the people to ban them so that they can stop their con business.

I advise every member of this author community to stay away from the con publishers at the Lupine Publishers LLC to save their precious time as well as money.