Business ProfileforCiti of Books, Inc.

I entered an 80/20% hybrid book deal with Citi of Books, paying $900.00 as my part of the expense to published the book. Citi of Books was to prepare the book for market; according to the arrangement, I was supposed to get 80% of any sales derived from the book. After the book was published on December 19, 20243, Citi of Books began ignoring me and have refused to return any of my calls about how the book was doing. It was Citi of Books who scammed and tricked me into that arrangement, promising me distribution to universities, libraries, bookstores, and public schools; they told me that they had connections and could get my books in all those places: they called me early in the morning, telling me how great my book was and how well it would sell. As soon as the book was published, they cut off all communication with me about my book and how it was doing. Only they who have access to the book's royalty reports, and they did not publish the eBook on my Amazon page, thus blocking me from seeing how the book was doing in the market place. Thus, they have access to the royalty reports and have refused to share them with me. They behaved as if the book's publication ended my involvement with them, but that was not at all the arrangement; I was to earn 80% of whatever the book earns, but thed dropped me as a hot potato and are selling my book as if I am not even in the picture. And to make matters worse, I invested $2000.00 in marketing the book for four months. This is clearly unethical and the way this vendible publisher does business. I truly feel scammed, tricked, and deceived by this larcenous publisher and want them to cease all involvement with my book whatsoever.