More on Bonnie Kaye

September 24th, 2009

I don’t know what Bonnie Kaye looks like on the outside, but she is definitely UGLY on the inside in my opinion. Bonnie Kaye’s attacks have become entirely personal and vicious. Last year Bonnie Kaye cornered my wife at a book show and tried her poison in person. Now she is trying to break up another marriage, and bragging about it!

Bonnie Kaye wrote and SPAMMED this about Debbie Lau, the wife of Carl Lau, a man she put out of business for her own profit:

It was general information from all of the previous Airleaf employees that spoke with me that Lau was a sleezy (sic) guy watching porn on his computer and making sexual overtures to a number of the female employees or even groping them. And yet, his wife still remains with him. So now she is a volunteer, aiding a criminal.

What does THAT have to do with business? Any kind of business? It’s as appalling and hateful as a person can get. Worst of all is IT’S NOT EVEN TRUE and Bonnie Kaye knows it’s not true.

Bonnie Kaye claims to be some kind of counselor but I can’t imagine what kind. My Mom (who Bonnie Kaye also trashed) worked as a substance abuse counselor for many years at The Center for the Homeless in South Bend, Indiana. My Dad was a counselor with a Ph.D.! Neither one of them, nor any other professional counselor for that matter, would say such horrific things about another person on the internet–especially a person she has never met! Not only did Bonnie Kaye write this virulent garbage, she also SPAMMED it to thousands of people and posted it everywhere.

Most shocking of all, on the same SPAM where Bonnie Kaye trashes Debbie Lau, one of the kindest and most generous people I ever met, Bonnie Kaye had the audacity to advertise one of her own companies, Books of Excellence. In the very same email Bonnie Kaye SPAMMED her attack of Debbie Lau, then advertised her own company. In her next attack will Bonnie Kaye also be advertising CCB Publishing? The only publishing company with no address or phone number?

Do Bonnie Kaye’s attacks ever end? Airleaf is GONE. What is Bonnie Kaye’s goal now? Is it to take even Carl Lau’s wife from him?

Who’s Lying Now?

September 24th, 2009

 

So I get this email from Marian Perera claiming to be an author and asking me to email our submission information. I emailed her our price for publishing and explained that we did not go through the whole pretend “look at and love the submission scam.” The next thing I know, my company is again getting trashed on yet another self-publishing website, this one marianperera.blogspot.com.

 

I was expecting the usual Bonnie Kaye garbage, complete with the made up 75 unhappy authors. So far, all the self-publishing attack sites simply repeat Bonnie Kaye’s lies. They don’t slow down for a moment to find out what our clients really say. They don’t check with the Attorney General, or the Better Business Bureau, or a single client. They just take Bonnie Kaye’s word for it and blog away.

 

So I was expecting another Bonnie Kaye parrot. However Marian Perera took it to the next level–making fun of other author’s books. Marian Perera trashed cover art, layout and subject matter.

 

Just like her hero Bonnie Kaye, Marian Perera makes her attacks personal.

More Author Comments

August 28th, 2009


A BETTER BONNIE KAYE


—– Original Message —–

From: B W Kaye

To: Brien Jones

Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 5:59 PM

Subject: Re: OK

 

Absolutely NOT! Keep them up. I’m fine with the W in my name.

Go for it!

 

Don’t you dare take them down!

Seriously! She needs to be stopped!

Bonnie W

 

Author of “Invited To The Light”

http://SecretsFromTheLight.com

 

— On Tue, 8/25/09, Brien Jones <brien@jonesharvest.com> wrote:

 

From: Brien Jones <brien@jonesharvest.com>

Subject: OK

To: “B W Kaye” <lightdreamer2010@yahoo.com>

Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 4:17 PM

 

My 800 clients and I have to suffer. You shouldn’t have to. I’ll take my sites down.

—– Original Message —–

From: B W Kaye

To: Brien Jones

Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 5:09 PM

Subject: Re: This is horrible.

 

What a tacky bunch of things to do!

Like I said, good luck.

I’m sure she’ll do things like this to others. Leopards don’t change their spots.

 

Bonnie W

 

Author of “Invited To The Light”

http://SecretsFromTheLight.com

 

— On Tue, 8/25/09, Brien Jones <brien@jonesharvest.com> wrote:

 

From: Brien Jones <brien@jonesharvest.com>

Subject: Re: This is horrible.

To: “B W Kaye” <lightdreamer2010@yahoo.com>

Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 3:32 PM

 

 

It’s all in the cease and desist.

 

http://jonesharvest.com/blog/

—– Original Message —–

From: B W Kaye

To: Brien Jones

Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:21 PM

Subject: Re: This is horrible.

 

Thank you for such a very quick response. In the meantime, I think I figured out a cure for me. I added the W to my name in Facebook. And, isn’t the electronic age wonderful, it changed it to add the W to everything I had sent out or posted before thru them.

 

Would it be invading privacy to ask what she did? Just curious, since I was an editor for LionHearted Publishing for about 10 years as well as an author. (Know anyone who needs a terrific editor???)

 

I’m fine with what you are doing. But I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes.

 

Good luck and good hunting.

Bonnie W Kaye

 

Author of “Invited To The Light”

http://SecretsFromTheLight.com

 

— On Tue, 8/25/09, Brien Jones <brien@jonesharvest.com> wrote:

 

From: Brien Jones <brien@jonesharvest.com>

Subject: This is horrible.

To: “B W Kaye” <lightdreamer2010@yahoo.com>

Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 3:05 PM

 

The OTHER Bonnie Kaye is ignoring the attached cease and desist. Even if I take my sites responding to her endless attacks down, that won’t stop my company, six other companies and hundreds of authors from filing suit.

 

I am at a total loss, but I know what it feels like to get trashed out of the blue.

—– Original Message —–

From: B W Kaye

To: brien@jonesharvest.com

Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:39 PM

Subject: A different Bonnie Kaye

 

Hi,

 

My name is Bonnie Kaye, but I’m not the one you have a problem with. In your complaints about her, can you better define who she is? What about her is unique? Her job? Her expertise? I know there is a Bonnie Kaye who is on CBS who has something to do with fitness. Could that be her?

 

My full name is Bonnie W Kaye and I am a published author, but not thru you. My book is “Invited To The Light” and my publisher is LionHearted Publishing, Inc out of NV. Since you are a publishing company, there might eventually be confusion about which Bonnie Kaye you’re talking about. I’m on Facebook as Bonnie Kaye. Blonde with black coat and white shirt looking to the left. That’s me.

 

I realize you probably have good and just reason for slamming her. I just don’t want people to become confused about who she is, connecting her with me.

 

Thank you for your time,

Bonnie W Kaye

 

Author of “Invited To The Light”

http://SecretsFromTheLight.com

 

An Update from Author Stewart Portela

July 4th, 2009

June 30 at 5:03pm

Howdy Brien,

 

Hope you have a great 4th of July. I am at 2-book signings and I also have two speaking engagements concerning veterans and my last book. See what you helped get me into.

 

You’re Awesome!

Stewart Portela

June 3rd, 2009

The number doesn’t “keep changing”, it just gets

bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

One Author’s Perception

June 2nd, 2009

Have you ever noticed how one person’s perception can lead you to a fact that you and everyone else somehow missed? That’s what happened to me when I received this email.

____________________________________________________________________________________

 

—– Original Message —–

From: leoscallywag07@comcast.net

To: Brien Jones

Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:54 AM

Subject: Re: Lost sales of “A Warning From An Angry God”

 

One last point, I also know that the only reason the author’s works became unavailable because of Bonnie.


—– Original Message —–
From: “
Brien Jones” <brien@jonesharvest.com>
To: leoscallywag07@comcast.net
Sent:
Saturday, May 23, 2009 4:53:34 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern

 

 

 

Everyone exalts Bonnie Kaye for putting together 600 Airleaf clients and closing the place down. In the teeny tiny world of untalented writers turned watchdogs and their blogs she reigns supreme. (Hey Lee, I knew you were a guy! It was an insult dumbass.) I wouldn’t include any further insults that could be used against you.

 

However, there is another side to the Airleaf story, one never told. At the end of 2006 and the end of my time in Martinsville there were 3000 clients. I have no idea how many authors bought services from Airleaf in 2007 and 2008, I wasn’t there. So we’ll be conservative and add ZERO new clients after I left.

 

Subtract out Bonnie’s 600 victims (and I believe they were victims) and that leaves 2400 Airleaf authors.

 

Out of those estimated 2400 Airleaf non-victim authors, how many paid just for publishing? How many received their books and didn’t sign up for anything else.

 

In other words how many Airleaf authors paid a fair price for publishing and then suddenly had no source of books?

 

However, I am quite sure the number is higher than 600.

 

Ask Bonnie Kaye or her CCB Publishing for a more accurate number. They’re the ones cashing in.

From Author Rudy Thomas

June 1st, 2009

Brien,

You and I go back to at least 2004. When I first went to Bookman Publishing, you were my contact person. You never promised anything that you did not deliver. As you know, I can not say that about others in Bookman or Airleaf.

Hope all is looking up for you…

Rudy

The Truth About Airleaf!

May 24th, 2009

 

One of the biggest surprises of my life is that after I left Airleaf only one person ever asked me a single question about my former employer. I never heard from the police, the Attorney General, the Better Business Bureau or the FBI. The one person that did ask me questions was a reporter and here is the story he filed:

 

Feds investigating Airleaf, former employee says

By Ronald Hawkins | rhawkins@reportert.com
Saturday April 19, 2008

Martinsville

At least one former employee of the defunct Airleaf Publishing and Book Selling company has been questioned as a part of a federal investigation into the company’s practices, according to that former employee.

The potential criminal filings against the Martinsville-based, vanity publishing and marketing business would be in addition to the multiple civil actions filed against owner Carl Lau and the company he operated until late last year.

In an interview, former Airleaf vice president and sales person Dawn Rodgers said she was questioned on Good Friday by U.S. Postmaster General investigators regarding Airleaf. The investigation is being done in conjunction with the FBI, she said.

Martinsville Police Department Capt. Jeff Buskirk, who investigated Airleaf for local law enforcement authorities, said he’s turned over his materials to the FBI.

Bonnie Kaye, a Philadelphia-based author who started airleafvictims.com, said she’d contacted the FBI about Airleaf.

FBI special agent Wendy Osborne, however, said, “The FBI doesn’t confirm or deny investigations.”

 

An insider’s story

 

Former Airleaf VP Rodgers worked for two periods at Airleaf. In the first, she had been promoted to vice president of marketing before she left and in the second was a marketing sales person. She was one of the last employees to leave before Lau shut down the business.

Author Kaye said she believes Rodgers shares some of the blame with Lau.

“She was taking money under fraudulent pretenses,” Kay said. “She continued taking money after production shut down.”

Rodgers said she is as much of a victim as the Airleaf customers who didn’t receive the books or marketing services they were promised.

“If anyone’s a victim,” Rodgers said, “it’s me.”

Rodgers, who is currently unemployed, said Lau still owes her money.

“He owes everybody,” she said.

Lau didn’t respond to requests for comments on this story. In a previous interview, however, Lau said after co-founder and Airleaf Executive Vice President Brien Jones left, the business started heading downhill. Lau said Jones, who started his own vanity publishing business in Bloomington, tried to persuade former Airleaf customers not to do business with him.

Jones has said that’s not the case

Rodgers, who worked with Jones, said the business headed downhill after Jones left in January 2007, but the cause was the loss of Jones’ skills. The sole bad guy in the story, she said, is Lau.

“He didn’t have the integrity to run a good business,” Rodgers said. “I wish Carl would accept responsibility for what he did. …

“I don’t think Brien was one of the bad guys. He cared about the business. It went crazy after he left. …I’d like Carl to be held responsible.”

Rodgers said she believed in Lau until the end, when things began to rapidly unravel.

“I believed in what I did, otherwise I wouldn’t have done it,” Rodgers said. “We all did what we had to do. We cared more about the company than Carl.”

In an interview Thursday, Jones said since he started his own business he’s had 400 clients and there have been no complaints.

 

Investigation questioned

 

Jones questioned whether there is an investigation.

“No one has ever contacted me,” Jones said. “I would think at some point someone would have. …I would think I would be one of the first people they contacted.”

Rodgers said the investigators “didn’t go into much” about what charges there might be against Law.

The founders of Airleaf, which started as Bookman Publishing and Marketing, had good intentions when they started the business, Rodgers said. Most of the marketing promotions such as cruises and appearances at book shows and even pitches to Hollywood studios happened.

“I don’t believe either (Lau or Jones) started with the intent to defraud,” Rodgers said.

Martinsville resident Bob Denton is helping some authors receive their books. Denton left Airleaf a month before it closed, he said, but still manages the building and managed it before Lau acquired it. The building is for sale.

Denton worked for Lau for 4-1/2 years in sales, product shipping and receiving, he said. Since leaving, Denton started Mountain Valley Publishing, a publishing firm that he operates out of his home and has some of Airleaf’s former clients.

Denton said he left Airleaf because he knew if he sold a publishing package, the money wasn’t there to produce it. Denton agreed with Rodgers and Lau that the business started to decline after Jones left.

“At first, it was a good business,” Denton said. “It got a lot of people’s work published. I don’t think they intended to defraud anybody.

“They just ran out of money. Why? I don’t know. Carl made a lot of bad business decisions.”

What Gives?

May 16th, 2009

I don’t want to say CCB Publishing is fraudulent. I don’t want to say CCB Publishing is ripping authors off. But when I took a look at Bonnie Kaye’s new company, CCB Publishing, I noticed two things right away.

 

The first thing was, “Hey these are all my clients!”

 

The second thing I noticed was nothing. No information. Nada. There is no address. There is no phone number. There isn’t one single person’s name (except my author’s) on the whole site. What gives?

 

If CCB Publishing is so perfect, how come they won’t even say where they are? And what does CCB stand for?

 

1. “Can’t Call Back?”

2. “Can’t Call Business?”

 

It took a lot of detective work but I finally figured it out. Although there are 20 of my authors on the site, one of my remaining 780 clients that didn’t fall for the Bonnie Kaye “Don’t be a victim” garbage gave me the phone number. It’s number three!

 

3. “Can’t Call Canada!”

 

CCB Publishing is in Canada.

 

Now there’s nothing wrong with that. I LIKE Canada. They must also have a devastated economy right? But why don’t they at least say what COUNTRY they’re in on their website?

A Letter from Author Edward T. Hayes

April 29th, 2009

April 27, 2009

 

Dear Brien,

 

I knew that launching The Love Scrolls would not be easy. Not just the launch of a book, nor just a new series. Neither is it a collection of poems or a mere foray into the grand tradition of the mighty epic.  It is in fact the launch of a whole new genre which can best be called the Inspirational Epic. In an era when books should be a carbon copy of the last hit, or fall into the parameters of a certain carbon copy standard, and success is determined by last months sales, I wondered if anyone would slow down long enough to hear the subtle whisper of greatness and timeless beauty that is The Love Scrolls.

 

At a time when query letters get quirky responses like “Thanks for the book, read it, not interested at this time.” When phone calls to publishers get answered by a machine, and call back times take up to a month if you are lucky. In a time when help comes from an unfamiliar voice, quickly becoming apparent as yet another new employee, I wondered if anyone would stop long enough to hear that subtle whisper of greatness.

 

Brien Jones has become that ear. The phone is answered every time. He does not mind long conversations that sometimes take up to an hour. He has never been unavailable for more than a few moments time. He calls when he says he will, he even initiates calls almost weekly to share any important developments. He is that someone that has heard the whisper of greatness that is The Love Scrolls.

 

In a few short months since we started promoting the eight new books that make up the series, he has posted all eight books on several web sites, entered up to date synopsis of each. He has uploaded my author profile and established an internet presence for me practically overnight. We took The Love Scrolls to the airwaves with a radio interview. Yet being the careful and savvy book promoter that he is, he identified the potential of one of my books to be the next film hit. He quickly initiated and designed a Hollywood promo which he will be presenting along with the book at the next Hollywood book event this summer. All of this promotion, not to mention the invaluable knowledge that he has shared with me about the industry was all done for literally pennies on the dollar compared to what it would have cost me elsewhere.

 

Thanks, Brien,

 

 

Edward T. Hayes

Author of The Love Scrolls

 

P.S. And I look forward to working with you for a long time, as you said, “I will promote an author’s books as long as they will let me.”