You don't need Author House
Complete waste of your time and especially your money! They charge a needlessly expensive monthly payment for them to "produce and distribute your book" which makes 0 sense to me as I had already finished writing and drawing the book all that needed to be handled was distribution which they decide to make difficult and take a whole 3 months to do editing to a script that had already been drawn out in a comic book which I sent them to distribute anyway but they decided to be difficult about it anyway. Even when they did finally edit the book, they did a horrible job, mainly removing parts where characters where shouting and times when characters would speak in slang, taking all the personality out of my "self published" book. They sweet talk you by telling you everything you wanna hear to peer pressure you into buying the first instalment of many to print your book and then they make you assume marketing is included in that cost but then a month later a different guy tried to peer pressure you and sweet talk you into buying another installment of payments for marketing in which you're confused but you agree because you wanna get your book out there, they sweet talk you, peer pressure you and do not take no for an answer. So after a month or 2 later, with btw constant updates telling you that your book you have already edited and made is in the edited stage and 0 updates from the marketing team, you get a new call. This time they try sweet talk you into buying a new instalment of payments to advertise your books on a podcast which only has 8 views per vid while they are asking for over 300 ponds from you and then you finally tell them no and they can't take no for an answer so they spam call you, peer pressure you and make you try and say yes but it doesn't work so they give up. After the 4th call in the hour you finally tell them you want out which they don't like so you tell them to put your account on hold and they "agree" and "confirm" that for you on the call. A month later you find notifications from the bank saying you have 2 declined payments from AuthorHouse which annoys you to no end as your account was agreed to be put on hold so you e-mail everyone you know who has been involved and they all just straight up ignore you. This is the author house experience and I DON'T recommend! I want them to stop charging me and give me my money back as they haven't done anything for the book except a poor attempt at editing this. While all this was happening I was able to put my book onto multiple platforms including my own website so you really don't need Author House