Hello, I am a fledgling author and I'd be grateful for any feedback on Pegasus as a publisher. They turned down my first book but have offered to publish my second book. They want a contribution from me of £2300. For this they offer royalties of 25% on book sales 50% on e book sales.
If anyone has experience good or bad I'd like to hear from you. Many thanks Suzanne
Keep away from them
I recently contacted Claiborne Hancock, the head of Pegasus Publishers, to inform him and his staff about the huge number of grammatical, punctuation, and factual errors in Joyce Lee Malcolm's hagiographical work entitled "The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold." The book is incredibly sloppy, not just formally, but intellectually. I sent photos of many passages as proof of what I was talking about. Mr. Hancock never apologized or even made the slightest attempt to explain the ubiquity of highly distracting and, indeed, astonishingly juvenile errors in Ms. Malcolm's mess. Instead, he just wrote me a snooty little note from his "smart"phone, complaining that he was on vacation with his family, and that, since he has received my "opinion," the best thing is to "move forward."
I had an offer from Pegasus years ago but figured if my story was that good they ought to be snatching my hand off rather than charging me for the privilege. So I carried on re-writing and eventually self-pubbed, which you can do economically, depending on how much of the work you're prepared to do yourself.