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I am almost traumatised from dealing with Olympia for two and a half years. The initial proof reader did a good job, and my book is now published and looks good. But the publication manager was incredibly inefficient and took several months to even answer my emails. I did all the work on my book. The graphic design team in Olympia did shoddy work, so I paid a local graphic designer to design my covers and arrange the photos in my book and submitted them to Olympia with the photo captions under each photo, and even then, half the captions had mistakes in them which I went back and forth until they were all corrected. My book took more than a year beyond the contract date, and the waiting and inefficiency caused me enormous stress and sleepless nights. My book is done and I am relieved and delighted to say is good quality. It’s of interest to Americans, and is already selling well there. However, the copies ordered directly from USA to Olympia have taken more than two months for delivery and this is again causing me stress and embarrassment. The USA copies being ordered through Barnes and Noble are arriving within days so I’m now encouraging all my American contacts to order through Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I have no idea how Olympia can operate with such an incredibly low level of efficiency and pride in their work.
My experience with Olympia has been over the span of four years. This is my second book which I am publishing with them. I must say that my recent experience, with my second book has been much more positive than the one with the first book. I had been quite disappointed with the quality of the proofreader/amender for my first. The second was better, although not as professional as I would have hoped. I would also have appreciated someone who gave editorial imput. But, I found a vast improvement in the quality and efficiency of the services provided.
Olympia, and every department in it, have been absolutely brilliant in supporting and helping me with the publication of my first book. From start to finish, they have guided me every step of the way, and the finished product is beyond anything I could ever have imagined. I’m so excited for its release too! Thank you to everyone at Olympia, and I hope that you get to do lots more work with you over the coming years:)
This is my second book published now with Olympia. Both times the experience has been pleasant. Communications are professional with action items for the author clearly outlined. Steps in the publishing process are articulated in a easily understandable format. Intervals between communications can be long sometimes, but this is understandable given the volume of people they work with and the intensive nature of publishing. The editing process was also strong, with most of the required corrections identified in the first round of edits.
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