Description

DETAILED REPORTTO FR: ********** ** ****** RE: FRAUD-SCAM November 2024 I was leaving my name for a Penguin Publishing. Within a day Thomas Marks from FRONT-LINE WRITERS sent me an email, asking me to call and that he was an arm of Penguin Publishing. I was interested. Mark was very personable and asked me to send my manuscript ******** The Reset, and their team would do a review. He replied by sending me an EDITRIAL REVIEW REPORT. Mark proposed editing. He said it was an amazing world, and it seemed like the perfect manuscript for Penguin. He asked if FRONTLINE WRITERS could edit I first. As he said it would take minor editing and charged me $600.00. The money and promise seemed earnest. CODEXLAB $600 NOVEMBER 18, 2024 INVOICE NO: 2718921 The manuscript was sent. I had been working on another novel called THE **********, which I wrote is a couple weeks. It was more of a movie, like taken, he was super excited and said again let’s do a team review, which I agreed. They provided a review, and he suggested let’s edit. I said “of course.” What was the worst that could happen. This time he charged me $1,200.00 for his teams editing service. (I still hadn’t seen anything from *******, and Peter Davidson, my first contact, passed me off to Sarah Wilson, my project manager. I found out she was in charge of ******* as well. CODEXLAB $1,200 DECEMBER 3, 2024 I HAVE NO INVOICE, but he sent a service agreement. COMPREHENSIVE editing package. Of which to date I have no manuscript but got one for review a couple weeks ago. It was unacceptable. EMERALD had been moving. The editing was unacceptable. I talked with Sarah asked for her boss and her boss who I didn’t get her name, said she agreed and changed out the team (every time a team gets changed out it is because they don’t understand sci-fi or they could keep the characters straight, and more. Of which there was always a hold up than I would get to see it but again nothing was happening, and the manuscript was becoming a huge mess. I was managing NOT SARAH. We had three difficult conversations about ******** At one point I said I can’t tell their edits at all (the tracking enable showed I was the editor for 98% of the manuscript. The process wasn’t unfolding.) Sarah Wison called me o say they needed $1,000 to copy write my books. I asked why when nothing had been anywhere near completed. She wanted it ready go. I paid again. CODEXLAB $1,000 JANUARY 30, 2025 INVOICE NO: 55455 ANNA PARKS, FRONTLINES distribution agent called while I was in LA. She said she had an opportunity that was needing immediate action. She had sent 50 of her new authors to Wiley and they had selected my manuscript. QUOTE, “I TOLD WILEY ABOUT YOUR SCRIPT ******* AND THY SAW IT AN WANT IT.” BUT SHE SAID, “THE WANT YOU TO PUT SOME SKIN IN THE GAME, AND THEY WILL REPAY IT.” Anna produced a contract from Wiley for the purchase and distribution of my manuscript. I wanted a guarantee that if they didn’t perform, that I would be fully reimbursed and she said, “FRONTLINE WRITERS will guarantee your money if Wiley didn’t perform.” I signed the contract for the FRONTED AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT OF $15,980.00 with a guarantee of a full refund or the agreed upon $48,980 to Author by end of August 2025. The contract came from DAVID MORGAN of WILEY. I was unwilling to provide my banking information. Instead, I paid: $5,980.00 by AMERICAN EXPRESS FEBRUARY 21, 2025 INVOICE 56715 Which included a WIRE TRANSFER THROUGH TRUIST BANK FOR $10.000 TRUIST OUTGOING DOMESTIC WIRE TRANSFER REQUEST AGREEMENT FEBRUARY 24, 2025, CASEID: D-20250224-1303 SENT TO: BOOK PRINTING EXPESS LLC, ANEHEIM, CA ACCT NO: ************ FRONTLINE WRITERS for WILEY BOOK. I asked to talk to DAVID MORGAN, about marketing ASAP. Anna said not to worry she’d get us together. I asked for his email and direct line. She skirted the request every time I asked which was all the time. Anna finally said let’s wait till we get closer on the manuscript which had made no movement. (Marketing needs to be in place eight months prior to launch but not one seemed worried but me.) SUMMARY I was tired the CONSTANT LAG, no editing, team changes, then team members were in the hospital, Sarah Wilson. I eventually fired her end of June saying, nothing was happening, the editors couldn’t edit, I wanted out. That’s when PETER DAVIDSON came back on the scene. “We removed Sarah, and I will be handling your work exclusively.” They agreed it was a mess. He took it over and again nothing. He was in and out of the hospital supposedly and I would calls every other week. UPDATES. Weeks keep going by then I’d see the manuscript which I would painfully review with NO EDITS. HE FIRED THE TEAM AGAIN BECAUSE HE SAID THEY HAD BEEN GETTING LOTS OF COMPLAINTS. THE TEAM WAS USING AI which is why it wasn’t working. I inquired with ANNA about WILEY saying, “you know they will need to pay me in August.” Her response was no worries. They would. They a couple weeks back after we had a argument about ******** She assigned me a WILEY PROJECT manager not a literary agent. His name John Smith. He sent me a WELCOME EMAIL with a phone and email. I tried to connect with him yet no response to emails. Then one day it said THE NUMBER WAS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. I went crazy. I could get Perer, he was in the hospital, Anna was in the hospital for one day…. THAT WAS MY BREAKING POINT. I called them, texted and emailed with no success. I wanted guarantees with Wiley. Since I had no LITERARY AGENT, no contact with John Smith and still no conversation with David Morgan I wanted out. AGAIN, NO RESPONSE FOR A WEEK. So, I decided to take legal action. I called FBI June 24, 2025 I filed wire fraud with Truist June 25, 2025 I called AMERICAN EXPRESS June 25, 2025 I called WILEY at their headquarters. I asked to be connected to David Morgan and John Smith. I chatted with an individual who had access to everyone in Wiley. She confirmed she couldn’t find their names anywhere. I emailed John Smith and strongly suggested he call. NOTHING. MODAY JUNE 28, 2025, PETER DAVIDSON AND ANNA PARKS somehow decided to call attacking me asking why I was launching a law suit against Wiley. I told them in detail why. They then asked for a meeting, Peter was to arrange the meeting. I asked why I could have a zoom meeting. He said they were on Central Time. I challenged him asking didn’t they work at the corporate headquarters in NEW JERSEY. Meeting was set Thursday July 31, 2025, 3:00EST – 2:00 CENTRAL TIME. I rearranged my work schedule. He texted 3:00pm the building was on fire. The meeting was cancelled. I said David and John could still talk. He said all files were destroyed, servers were melted. We agreed to meet and confirmed Friday August 1, 2025, 4:30 EST and again I rearranged my schedule. NO CALL…NO TEXT…NOT ABLE TO GET PETER DAVIDSON, COULDN’T GET ANNA PARKS, AND JOHN SMITH DIDN’T TEXT, EMAIL, OR CALL. I called and texted everyone except DAVID MORGAN which has to date never connected nor a literary agent. I have keep most all emails and text threads through 2025, if needed. Including John Smiths one and only email.