Archway PublishingReviews of archwaypublishing.com

Pretty good self publishing company. Except the result of marketing and promoting the book????? I wonder if Archway has the books reviewed to find good books, serious writers, like they would like to find gold!

Leadership throughout the process was very good. Quality Control at print deadline was good, made better by authors attention to detail. Don’t expect a comprehensive proofread. You are ultimately responsible for your content.

There were many positive things about working with Archway Publishing: They gave me a long time to finally finish my book. Most of the time all of the people I worked with were pleasant and for the most part they were able to answer my questions. I think working with a book that has as many pictures as mine was a challenge for them and perhaps I should have researched that particular aspect of the publishing industry. I found it difficult to always visualize on the computer what the final page would look like in the finished product, for example when a new chapter was started with a title and picture, I had visualized it as being the right sided page; trying to save paper was very obvious in the final product. I know that there are many books being published and that this was a self-publishing project, however, perhaps those working on the book could have been even more helpful if they had at least skimmed the book, looking at it as a whole. Overall, it was not a bad experience and I have learned a lot, one of which is if I were to do it over again, I would perhaps look for a publisher more interested in my project as a whole and a work in art form.

My experience, and I realize that not everyone has the same experience, was that the entire process was slow from start to finish. There was also added costs that I didn't foresee. Again, I might should have known better, but for my first time publishing a book, I thought the first price was the only money involved. I never rec my first copy of the final book. It was during this time I was very sick and in the hospital. I then noticed my picture was not on the back of the book even though the book cover had been designed to include the picture. I was told to put the picture on the cover there would be another charge even though I still have an email confirming my picture had been received. I went through the book thoroughly last night and I will say I only found one typo error. I consider that great. People do make mistakes. I'm disappointed my picture was not on the back cover and there was no resolution to fix it except more money. I have the sequel to this book ready to go to a publisher, but I think I will search for another company. I'm happy that I finally have my book, even without my picture, but I'm not willing to try this company again.

I was satisfied with the final product. I had to wait for return calls during the process. Other than that I’m satisfied.

Overall, a good experience -- and best of all, the book is a high quality product.

The overall process was good. There were two consistent problems: #1. It was difficult to reach my consultant in a timely manner and getting correct response the first time. #2 My wife has an account with Archway. We were told we could not have two accounts, and no matter how many times we brought the subject up, my wife got some of the correspondence on my new book and I got some correspondence. Many of the phone calls about my book were to my wife. I was never sure if I was getting all the information that Archway was sending to me.

I certainly learned a great deal about publishing while doing this first book. On the whole it was positive but frankly expensive. Contacts were good, except for one.