Booksie

My account was closed down for no reason. The owner accused my sister of opening up accounts. I verified my email.
They are a rip. Off and I won't be supporting them.

Booksie is a progressive publishing site that has, over the years made incredible improvements to its stats and assistance to help authors prosper from their work by adding support and donate. It remains a simple site to publish on and great for new and up and coming authors... Remember though... no matter who you publish through, indie or traditional it is up to you to do most of the promotions but Booksie does some... in general forms. Its a good site.

This young lady knows her stuff she can do any kind of hair braids and does it well! I will not take my granddaughter to anyone else she is the Best!

I created a booksie account to put some religious content I have been writing for the last couple of years. I uploaded about six short stories, had about 25 reads, and then just like that, they deleted my account. No explanation. Nothing. Do not waste your time. Clearly, they cannot handle the Truth. Praise God. Hallelujah. Amen.

I love Booksie, but I gotta tell you: Inputting and Formatting on booksie is a nightmare. The parser is terrible at things like indentation, font size, and italics. Even using the import MS word isn't great.

Stick to plain text and don't try to stylize your writing.

Booksie, if you're reading this, here's some suggestions: let me switch between "SOURCE" and regular and keep my spot. If I'm online 329 and switch to source i want it to show line 329 not line 1

Add a "tab" button on the tool bar that inserts "text-indent-36" or whatever automatically. Cause it will delete my indentations and not automatically add them when I press enter. The "increase indent" button doesn't seem to work

My family and I (3 sets) got vacation packages from one of their "sales". We paid and then tried to book. We were told that we could not go as a family and that one if they noticed it (said they checked your social media to see if people were family) they would not accept the bookings. So we told them we wanted a refund. One family member got her refund. I was told to call back in two days to see if they could do it (I had put both packages on my credit cards). I tried to call back several times (after a half of an hour wait, I would give up), even emailed. Got responses on the email "Thank you for contacting, we will address your issue shortly". When I did get someone, they said that they see where it says in the notes to refund, but that she had to check with her supervisor and for me to call back. I, again, tried calling, even waiting up to an hour to get through. I finally got through and they tell me that since I did not contact them within the 7 day window that my money would not be refunded. I told them I wanted a refund within an hour of booking, they were the ones that told me to call back. Very disappointed and will NEVER use this company and would recommend no one else use them either.

Its a very great site to write and publish your own story. Its a free website to use. 100s of stories available.

If you are a novice or a seasoned writer, great place to come to share writing and feedback. Nice sense of community too.
XO
CG

I bore witness to vindictiveness on the site both by admins and users with a superiority complex created by a flawed "view/r
Ead" system creating public badges to promote entitlement. Personal milestones (badges & views) should be just that- personal. Readers are unknowingly suckered into clicking posts that generate these reads that breed types like hullabafoon22, because such users boost and post constantly, with no room for anyone else on the main page to be acknowledged. The site claims to track stolen intellectual property and copyrighted material, but the content remains, and the people who point it out don't. The new donation option is another breach of privacy that the site claims to protect, as through PayPal, both parties information such as legal birth name and personal emails are released. An excellent author I followed on the website, known prodominetly as Burning Sage, was recently banned from the site for speaking up about these issues on a public post. Me, being new to the site, immediately became further soured by what I'd already experienced on the site myself. In final correspondence with this author online, she spoke clear of Booksies intentional lies to justify keeping money she had paid for in advance for services that will never be provided to her such as entering a writing contest and boosting the post for the event. This is not a website for intelligent people. If you want to be a hullabafoon22, than this is the place for you. Otherwise, run in the other direction. -Mechanic Metal. The following pictures are snippets of author Raven Leal's commemoration of our missing star.

I am not the only author to have stories removed and my account closed WITHOUT reason or warning!. Sadly a good site with easy to use options has denied readers the opportunity to enjoy tales of fact and fiction.
The pleasure the author has is removed and Why?
A very good question that Booksie have failed to answer.
Yes I have asked more than once!
So only a one star which if Booksie reopened accounts would not doubt improve at the speed of light.

I am Raven Leal, the same who wrote what you see in the pictures of Sage and freedom of speech. Those pictures were taken without permission to attack a site with a very non-toxic community who cares about writing. What these pictures also do not show is that I noted my mistake both in the summary and comment part about writing it without enough knowledge of the situation. Here is the link to see for yourself. https://www.booksie.com/*******-to-miss-burning-sage
I've been reviewing all information I can find about Sage's ban and will be posting another piece of the evidence I have that could be against her or the site booksie, but as of now, if you're a writer. Come by Booksie and reach out to others on the site, we all have a love for writing and this is my favorite site for it.
As for whoever decided to use me to fuel the war Sage has against Booksie, this will be noted, and it does not look good.
Update; It seems that the pictures used without my knowledge have been taken down. Thank you very much.

This site is very dishonest. If you want your money back you need to do fraud with your credit card company.

I found the sight hard to use. I could not find what I was looking for. I posted a book review. The next day the site crashed. I don't know what I did.

Booksie closed down my account! The site quality has plummeted dramatically over the last year! Any (certain varieties only, many other terrible opinionated articles that the moderators approve of remain untouched on the site however for all to see) dissenting articles causes an immediate closure of a user's account. No questions asked and no way to contact anyone in a professional manner! This is a terrible site to engage with at this point! A complete shell of what it once was!

They delete some user's accounts for absolutely no reason hardly at all while others remain that include vulgarity, erotica, sex and extreme dissenting opinions while others they just close down the account with ABSOLUTELY NO EXPLANATION! UNCALLED FOR, UNPROFESSIONAL AND UNFORGIVABLE! NEVER AGAIN! DO NOT USE THIS SITE, IT IS A TERRIBLE PLACE! ADDITIONALLY, Booksie's sisters site completely shut down and their other managing site 'The Next Big Writer' suffered a hardware backup-failure a number of months ago, leading to over two years of content lost forever! How anyone still uses their sites anymore at this point is completely beyond me! UNPROFESSIONAL AND FOREVER UNFORGIVABLE! A TERRIBLY HORRIFIC SITE AT THIS POINT! STAY AWAY FROM BOOKSIE AT ALL COSTS!

Writers that don't agree with administration's favorites or the administration its self disappear..

While at one time they claimed to allow critcism of the site, now they admit they dont. They think free speech is a joke and say they dont care about bad reviews of the site. They also have a buddy system who are favored above the rest.

The site kind of sucks. There's a lot of tweens on there just reviewing for ego plus it's pretty much just a rip off of the much better sites www.writers-network.com and writecafe.org

They copied everything from "fans" to the "writing portfolio" to the "promoted writing". I think it's pretty sad that a writing site lacks the originality to come up with a unique concept. Just saying!

I have been a member of Booksie for almost two years now. It is a friendly user site with some very helpful members. I get to air my writing to the world and receive comments and reviews from people all over the world. If you are like me, and a hobby writer, then this site is great for sharing your work for all to see. It also helps you to grow as a writer. I Highly recommend hobby writers to give it a go.

Booksie is the best writing website I've ever reads. It gets me the attention that I crave and is boosting my writing career. The websites it's been compared to now look nothing alike, and are kind of dead. The Booksie community is also really amazing, friendly, welcoming, and bustling.

I like Booksie. It provides the platform for me to pen down my thoughts through stories which are then published to be read by people.

Sure, Booksie has it's issues like crybabies that don't like being told that their writing suck and drama queens in a position of power. It seems that hullubaloo22 is an admin on the site. Looking back through the old forum posts I found numerous cases where those who are admins or moderators of the site are involved in drama-filled topics. More often then not the person these people in power are attacking are regular members who in the end are thrown off. I have seen the postings that have led to the removal of at least five good writers simply because they disagreed with those BooksieGuy has given authority to.

The only one that even admits to having such a position is B. Douglas Slack who seems to rarely show his face anymore on the site. BooksieGuy made it clear that arguing in the forums wouldn't be tolerated but only takes action when one of his pets are being put in their place. A couple of those in positions of power do try to do the right thing, but they are greatly outnumbered by those that abuse their power from behind the scenes like some secret government.

Booksie does have a few things that set it apart from other sites in the fact that it allows you to post anything for free where some limit the number of items you can post or the type of item if you aren't a paid member. The forums would be a benefit also if they were better monitored and controlled by responsible individuals. Booksie also works hard to remove spammers which is a plague on other writings sites. It also doesn't show favoritism to published authors over non-published authors as I have seen on several other sites.

All in all, I would have to say that as long as you can avoid the shadow forces that truly control Booksie you won't find a better site on the internet to post your writing. If you do run afoul of some of those that BooksieGuy gave power to then you should just leave or make a new account and try to start over.