Anthem Press Reviews

EVERYTHING. The MD is the worst thing about this place - he doesn't understand how to run a business let alone a publishing house. If daddy wasn't the owner, he would not be employed. He bullies his staff, has unrealistic ambitions and expectations for the business, and cons money out of authors and clients. They've been sued by multiple authors for failing to pay royalties and employ a workforce of interns for free labour. The most unethical, shoddy company I've ever come across. Oh, and your holiday entitlement is less than the legal requirement. Not a single happy staff member to date and now the entire publishing house has only one full time staff member as everyone else has left. That's right - ONE staff member. So don't bother joining if you're looking for an enjoyable working environment. Anthem Press is pretty much defunct (thank god) but if you read the name 'Sood' on any future 'business' ventures, AVOID AT ALL COSTS. They'll find loopholes in every law to ensure that you lose money, time and your mental stability. More conmen than businessmen.

- Complete lack of transparency from management (internally and externally) - Micromanaged - had to account for entire working session; discovered that all emails get forwarded to and read by management - Cheap, slave labor - hire as many international interns as possible so they don't have to pay; full-time staff is paid very poorly - Worked on a lot of projects that went nowhere - Forced to lie to authors, companies, etc. to appear bigger and better staffed than we were; I think this was a real miss as people love to support the underdog not massive corporations - Not sure if authors were misled, but ran into several situations where authors had certain expectations that were not in line with what we were to provide (such as limited marketing, ability to get their work reviews in publications, etc.) - Over-worked their staff - High turnover (See points above)