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Soaring Eagle Books / Eagle's Branch Books (Penelope "Penny" Fletcher)
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More on Penny Fletcher:
According to her bio, she "wrote a trilogy (The Friendly Sex Series): Friendly Sex; Just Friends & From Friendship to Fire, for Secret Cravings Publishing under the name Indigo Fantasia". Websearching on her pen name turns up a number of references, but the books all appear to be out of circulation; at any rate, none seem to be listed on any retailers' websites. (Remember, she's "no longer hostage to any agent or publisher.")
Indigo Fantasia has a Facebook page. So does Penny Fletcher. Check out Indigo pretending Penny is a separate person. Check out Penny returning the favor!
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According to her bio, she "wrote a trilogy (The Friendly Sex Series): Friendly Sex; Just Friends & From Friendship to Fire, for Secret Cravings Publishing under the name Indigo Fantasia". Websearching on her pen name turns up a number of references, but the books all appear to be out of circulation; at any rate, none seem to be listed on any retailers' websites. (Remember, she's "no longer hostage to any agent or publisher.")
Indigo Fantasia has a Facebook page. So does Penny Fletcher. Check out Indigo pretending Penny is a separate person. Check out Penny returning the favor!
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When I emailed Lauren Hackenberry to ask for more info about her book-related websites she told me that she sold them "a while ago", through Flippa, to a man named Mathew Marcus.
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I can't see any signs of life on Hackenberry's sites after February this year.
Have I got things straight: Fletcher's book Trial by Fire was released on 21st March this year. Despite the problems she'd had with Atlantic Book Review she tried to use their services to promote Gen Griffin's Feeding Gators, released on 29th May.
What's wrong with this picture?
Oh, and Mathew Marcus' email address - or at least the version of it given to me by Lauren Hackenberry - doesn't exist.
Have I got things straight: Fletcher's book Trial by Fire was released on 21st March this year. Despite the problems she'd had with Atlantic Book Review she tried to use their services to promote Gen Griffin's Feeding Gators, released on 29th May.
What's wrong with this picture?
Oh, and Mathew Marcus' email address - or at least the version of it given to me by Lauren Hackenberry - doesn't exist.
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Very valid point. And a very good question.
I'll be honest, the failed review is one of the more minor issues that I've had with Penny Fletcher and Soaring Eagle Books.
I've been going through them, one-by-one, on my blog.
"Bluedog" says
I'd like to invite y'all to look at this post on my blog and make up your own minds about whether or not Penny would mislead an author about sales.
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Also, thank you for taking the time to look through all of those Victoria. I greatly appreciate your time as well as that of everyone else on this thread.
Publishers! Are your books simply crying out to be made into blockbuster movies? Are you looking for producers desperate to throw their money in your direction?
There's only one thing to do - join "Movie Producers", a moribund Facebook group with four members, and wait for the offers to flood in!
There's something horribly fascinating about cluelessness on this scale.
More shoddy editing by Soaring Eagle Books:
*winces*
There's only one thing to do - join "Movie Producers", a moribund Facebook group with four members, and wait for the offers to flood in!
There's something horribly fascinating about cluelessness on this scale.
More shoddy editing by Soaring Eagle Books:
*winces*
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And yet she accuses me of lying and being "libelous" when I say that I am less than satisfied with her marketing efforts and promotions for Feeding Gators.
In other news, she just sent out an email announcing that she is only going to be doing Soaring Eagle Books business from her [email protected] email address.
I suppose she's trying to be more professional now?
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That's amusing, because "moving picture rights" are the only ones that Soaring Eagle's contract doesn't claim.
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Haha, you know, that never even occurred to me. You're right. She doesn't have motion picture rights.
Lies ,Misconception and Sad Sad people
Some people just go on lying and have so much pent up frustration they will say anything to make themselves feel better. The problem is you will be eaten up by your own lies. Your karma will get you. You blame other people for your own inadequacies and have nothing better to do than wine like a child who didn't get his way. Your lies and pent up hatred is misplaced and you would be better off working on yourself than spreading lies about Soaring Eagle. YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THESE ARE LIES !!!!!! Grow up,you SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED. This will not accomplish anything. I personally will not read anymore of your nonsense. I have seen the proof of your lies,maybe that should be up here,because you can't prove what doesn't exist. What a waste of energy,it won't help anyone.
Some people just go on lying and have so much pent up frustration they will say anything to make themselves feel better. The problem is you will be eaten up by your own lies. Your karma will get you. You blame other people for your own inadequacies and have nothing better to do than wine like a child who didn't get his way. Your lies and pent up hatred is misplaced and you would be better off working on yourself than spreading lies about Soaring Eagle. YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THESE ARE LIES !!!!!! Grow up,you SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED. This will not accomplish anything. I personally will not read anymore of your nonsense. I have seen the proof of your lies,maybe that should be up here,because you can't prove what doesn't exist. What a waste of energy,it won't help anyone.
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Hello, Bluedog. Welcome to AW. Could you point out specifically where Gen Griffin has lied and correct the misconceptions.
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Wow. Just wow.
ETA: I am fairly certain (though not 100% so don't accuse me of libel if I am incorrect, this is only my opinion) that bluedog is Penny Fletcher and if it isn't her then it may possibly be her boyfriend Mark posting for her.
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Its getting deep here
That has nothing to do with the lies ,the contract is deliberately friendly. This is nothing more than sour grapes. My God ,you people will stoop to to anything,don't you have something more constructive to do? Your negativity will consume you and opinions are just that. Your all laughable .
That has nothing to do with the lies ,the contract is deliberately friendly. This is nothing more than sour grapes. My God ,you people will stoop to to anything,don't you have something more constructive to do? Your negativity will consume you and opinions are just that. Your all laughable .
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So there are no lies? I just want to be clear on this.
ETA: Here's an opportunity to set the record straight.
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Considering that it's coming from (I'm ALMOST certain here) my editor.....sigh. No wonder my book has errors.
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Hot off the press: This response from Ms Fletcher on Facebook. It includes an argumentum ad natalis*.
*I'm not a Latin scholar, as you can tell.
*I'm not a Latin scholar, as you can tell.
Thank you, Helix. Ms. Fletcher's post is a sight to behold:
And she spouts the usual nonsense about famous authors who paid to be published. Carrie was first published by Doubleday, who paid King an advance. Five seconds on Wikipedia could have shown her that.
So someone called her a fee-for-service publisher, and she admits to being a fee-for-service publisher. Even if she published the person at her own expense, what does that have to do with it? That person told the truth about her. If it's a good thing to pay for publication, why get so worked up?
And she spouts the usual nonsense about famous authors who paid to be published. Carrie was first published by Doubleday, who paid King an advance. Five seconds on Wikipedia could have shown her that.
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Bluedog, can you tell us what parts of the contract (which apparently you have access to) you feel are specifically friendly to authors?
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There is a lot of drivel in that post, but the part that interests me is the one I've quoted here.
I don't ever recall saying, in any of my posts, anywhere, that she was a fake or a huckster. Has anyone else seen me call her a fake or a huckster? I'm certain I haven't.
I have reviewed her services. I have shared my personal experiences with her. I have shared her actions. I have said that I want to warn others of my experiences so that they can make their own decisions.
I find it amusing that the woman who sent me a post it note as an earnings statement says I don't know how to behave like a professional.
Is this professional? Not exactly, but she ignored all my professional and polite attempts to resolve this issue. I tried to work with her and work things out well before I reached out to others about my experiences.
Helix offered "bluedog" the opportunity to share her side of the story - resulting in Penny's monologue post on her own blog. The part that says the most to me is the last line I quoted above. She sees my posts and she refuses to refute them.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help me much because she is still refusing to return the rights to my novel or account for my sales.
FWIW:
Blue Dog Mobile Marketing is owned by Mark Rauser, who also contributed a 5-star Amazon review of Trial by Fire written in exactly the same style as some of BlueDog's posts here:
So far we've discovered that the "marketing" offered by Soaring Eagle consists of spamming by email, sending out press releases that aren't even acknowledged, posting on laughably irrelevant social media sites and handing out flyers and bookmarks. Combine that with authors having to buy boxes of their own books (which are wrongly addressed and go astray in the mail), the introduction of errors that weren't in the author's final draft and book signings that don't happen...what does this remind you of?
All together now - PublishAmerica!
The problems with Soaring Eagle are yet another reminder that
years of experience in magazine and newspaper publishing don't count for a great deal when it comes to book publishing.
Blue Dog Mobile Marketing is owned by Mark Rauser, who also contributed a 5-star Amazon review of Trial by Fire written in exactly the same style as some of BlueDog's posts here:
So far we've discovered that the "marketing" offered by Soaring Eagle consists of spamming by email, sending out press releases that aren't even acknowledged, posting on laughably irrelevant social media sites and handing out flyers and bookmarks. Combine that with authors having to buy boxes of their own books (which are wrongly addressed and go astray in the mail), the introduction of errors that weren't in the author's final draft and book signings that don't happen...what does this remind you of?
All together now - PublishAmerica!
The problems with Soaring Eagle are yet another reminder that
years of experience in magazine and newspaper publishing don't count for a great deal when it comes to book publishing.
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Soaring Eagle's "Editor-in-Chief" is retired journalist Liz Bleau, who gets an editing credit in all three of the company's books.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/liz-bleau/14/36a/828
Fletcher's own book, from what I've read of it via the Look Inside feature, has fared pretty well at her hands, but Feeding Gators and the third Soaring Eagle book clearly have editorial problems.
As for Fletcher's nonsense about famous self-published authors, I know we've been through this over and over again but here are the facts:
John Grisham did NOT self-publish. His first book, A Time to Kill, was picked up by the small commercial publisher Wynwood Press. When the company went under Grisham bought the unsold copies of his book and sold them himself, hence the self-pubbing confusion.
Mark Twain DID self-publish Huckleberry Finn, but he was already one of the most famous authors in America thanks to Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper.
Stephen King? Really?
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