Fool Me Twice: The Book Marketing Scammer I Outed Comes After My Money - Again!

A Literal Literary Loser Laughs Last

I wrote about the “book marketer” who took my money and disappeared here on Substack. I wrote about it for Writer Beware. I wrote about it for Writers Weekly.

You would think this would make other “book marketers” wary of approaching me. When I published this post, Beware Book Marketing Bull, the “promoter” I exposed as a fraud angrily wrote me: I don’t know what you gain by tarnishing my name. Please just go if you don’t learn to appreciate people that help you. I pray you meet someone that we spoil and tarnish your name also.

Thank you for asking. What I was hoping to gain was to warn away other potential customers by demonstrating that this person, like so many others, cannot deliver what he promises. It is all one big scam to steal your money.

What I was also hoping was that it would slow down the marketing spam I received.

It did not.

Instead of less spam, I got more, all of them explaining how they were not scammers like the others. I could and should trust them. (Including one candidate who literally changed her user name in the middle of a Direct Message exchange. That really boosts one’s confidence in their honesty!)

But the approach that really made me shake my head at their chutzpa was when Bookworm Writers Center and Book Center Inc DM’d me within minutes of each other on Instagram USING THE EXACT SAME PITCH I HAD EXPOSED EARLIER THIS YEAR.

They even used Susanna Clarke as an example of an author they promoted, after I wrote at length about how I’d proven that was a lie.

They directed me to their IG pages, with 1000s of followers and dozens of posts (though no comments; almost as if all their members were fake).

But here is where the story takes a Twilight Zone level twist.

I sent them the links to my stories about how they’d stolen my money and provided no service. At which point, our DM conversation disappeared. And then both their IG pages disappeared.

Am I really that powerful? Am I powerful enough to make TWO scammers (who are obviously the same person, but they bothered to put up two different accounts) turn tail and run? Delete their whole accounts?

The only way I can see that being possible is that I am the only person who has ever bothered to respond to their come-ons. That’s what terrific marketers they are! They can’t even sell themselves.

(Side note: As I am writing this update, one Bryan Acee has not only assured me that he is not a scammer but has guaranteed me, for the low, low price of only $110 to sell 200,000 copies of my book via his amazing marketing services. Hurry, and he can promise to do the same for you!)

Why do I keep writing these posts and calling folks out by name? Because they keep popping up on social media, lying and scamming and conning people out of their hard earned money, preying on their dreams, and delivering nothing.

Let’s keep outing them! If you’ve been scammed in this manner, share their names and profiles below. And, whenever you see them trying to entrap others, share this post. If they can keep at it, so can we!