first, welcome to all the new PA authors!
second - YOU DID NOTHING WRONG.
I feel this needs to be said because at some point you will sit there and stare into the mirror and wonder what sort of idiot you were to allow yourself to be scammed. After all, who gets taken in by a junk outfit like PublishAmerica, right?
YOU DID NOTHING WRONG.
except, perhaps, to trust in a company to keep their promises to you and to deliver what they had said on their website and in their forums.
YOU DID NOTHING WRONG.
and now you're here, among friends. Been there, done that, been banned and now gotten a few paltry royalty checks.
grab a Krispy Kreme and an Icee, curl up on the fat old comfy couch and stay a bit... plenty to chat about here with other PA authors and published professionals who can give you tons of advice on how the REAL publishing world works.