Not City Limits Publishing

A cautionary tale for the #WritingCommunity — owes tens of thousands of dollars to authors and staff. As featured on WriterBeware.

[Not City Limits Publishing @citylimits_pub]

This account is very much not endorsed by the failed business known as City Limits Publishing.

This account exists to support #IndieAuthors, to post memes, and to spread awareness of other potential scams preying on the #WritingCommunity

[Peter Fenton ✪ @peterfent]

Y'all remember when I got published by a small press and then also started working for them and then it all turned out to be a scam that put me into some pretty deep financial trouble to the tune of $10,000?
Hahahaha me too! #WriterBeware @citylimits_pub
https://t.co/lxAzN3qFMn

[Peter Fenton ✪ @peterfent]

I was cleaning out my phone tonight. Found this from June ‘21 that I made but never posted 🤣 Good riddance to Robert Martin. I’m still haunted by all the FB memories shilling your company while you stole all the $$ and good press I earned for AAH.

#writerbeware @citylimits_pub

[Peter Fenton ✪ @peterfent]

“Hope Springs Eternal”

Today is the two year anniversary of the publication of the first edition of the book version of Abandon All Hope. It’s been a journey, but it’s my journey and—dare I say—my hope springs eternal.

Read the thread to learn my story.

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

I get that hope springs eternal. But if you find a company on a list of scams maintained by an organization that specializes in tracking and exposing scammers, that's a pretty solid indication it is indeed a scam. Sigh. #WriterBeware

[Peter Fenton ✪ @peterfent]

January 15 marks two years since the day I gleefully started working for Robert Martin and @citylimits_pub who scammed me out of $10,000+ worth of sales and labor 🙃🎉

#WritingCommunity if something sounds too good to be true—THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE IT IS https://t.co/fJaTxiXwt8

[Cheryl King, M.Ed., LDT, CALT @CKing_Author]

I’ve decided that for my next book, I’m going to give myself an advance. I can swing a couple bucks. #selfpublishing

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

Does anyone have a recent Galatea contract that they'd be willing to share with me (#WriterBeware )? Anything you share with me is confidential. Contact me at [email protected] . Pls RT--thanks!! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

Democrats in array.

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

People are def drinking the Kool-Aid on this one. https://t.co/7nli7jDDFa

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

So...this is a publisher about which I've been advising caution, based on its newness (wait-and-see is best w/ new pubs, because many don't make it or turn out to have weird business practices) & what looks like really limited experience on the part of the owners... #WriterBeware

[Peter Fenton ✪ @peterfent]

If I had to pick one store to be stranded in to wait out the zombie apocalypse, I’m definitely picking Costco. Stores are always huge and have lots of food in bulk. Plus, the zombies can’t get in without a membership

[Peter Fenton ✪ @peterfent]

Writer/Producer/Director has the exact same energy as Husband/Father/Pastor

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

Hey, writers & editors of Twitter: #WriterBeware is looking for info on Catstone Books, which recently shut down under mysterious circumstances, jettisoning staff & authors. Please contact me in confidence (WB never shares names or identifying info): [email protected] Thx. Pls RT

[Gabi Burton📚✏️ @query_queen339]

Y’all. If you’re personally offended by a BIPOC author posting about how NOT to write bad BIPOC representation, please know that you’re free to do whatever you want. BIPOC won’t stop you. Publishing DEFINITELY won’t stop you. Do what you want. You don’t have to listen to BIPOC

[Not City Limits Publishing @citylimits_pub]

@JNHitt I’m having flashbacks to when CLP gave @LillahLawson a photo of an old man as a potential cover for “So Long, Bobby”, which is a book about three women 💀

[Hitt Family Stories @JNHitt]

What happens when your book cover designer hasn’t read your book…

[Hitt Family Stories @JNHitt]

The Things Friendship Brings earned a 2022 Purple Dragonfly Book Award in 2 categories: Picture Books 6 & Older and School Issues. What a cute seal to add to the book!

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

Continued fallout from the implosion of Silver Shamrock Press #WriterBeware

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

Timely advice from @annerallen . #WriterBeware gets complaints about book-to-film scams nearly every day, from relatively straightforward "we'll take your book to Hollywood" solicitations to actual impersonations of film directors & producers

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

A scammer goes down: owner of Remington Biographies, a Who's Who scam that solicited mostly elderly ppl w/ promises to include their bios in a reference book for a fee, pleads guilty to fraud charges including check fraud of more than $1.5 million https://t.co/xgP59WHOkr