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Lisa is absolutely and completely brilliant. From start to finish on our project she has been consistently hardworking, friendly and incredibly kind and complimentary of my work. She made what was quite a scary venture at first into a fun and extremely exciting journey. Lisa carefully outlined everything I would need to know and virtually held my hand through the process and I could not have wished for more. She is a huge asset to her role and I would encourage anyone with a dream of writing, to reach out and contact Lisa. She will have your back from day one and turn your dream into a beautiful reality. I am incredibly grateful to Craft 2 Publish and will no doubt be contacting them for further work in the not too distant future. The most magical experience!

I am writing this review to warn others about my experience with Craft 2 Publish. I hired them for children's book illustrations and paid an upfront fee of £408.

The project was managed by an individual named Dave Rodgers. After the initial work was not to my satisfaction, I cancelled the project. The company then refused to provide a refund, citing a policy that work in progress is non-refundable.

I have since discovered multiple red flags that suggest this is a fraudulent operation:

* Misleading Company Information: The company's LinkedIn profile claims it has 11-50 employees and is based in the USA. However, I was only ever in contact with a single individual, and the supposed US headquarters address is a residential home.

* Conflicting Addresses: The contract provided an address in London, the invoice gave a different address in Liverpool, and a Companies House search shows a separate, default address in Cardiff.

* Unprofessional Conduct: The company sent me an invalid invoice for an additional £150 after I had already cancelled the project.

* Attempt to Dissolve: A Companies House search shows the company has an "Active proposal to strike off".

The company is clearly not operating transparently. I have formally objected to the striking off of the company to allow me to pursue a refund. Please be very cautious before engaging with this company.

Working with Craft2Publish was an experience indeed. As a first time author, I am truly happy I went with them. Lisa paid great attention to detail from start to finish, from understanding my vision, to sketching, to colouring and finally finishing touches. We worked together on perfecting my draft into the perfect little children’s book and I am so thankful. Would highly recommend and would definitely use Lisa again!

This is my second project with Dave Rodger and my experience is similar to the first one - a fine end product. The result is always excellent and Dave's talent shines through. I do change my mind a lot, however, and occasionally, revisions would come through with one or more of my requests unmet. In the scheme of things, this is unimportant. What matters is that Dave is not happy until the client is happy - that gives me great confidence.

The next stage in our partnership will be proofreading, layout and marketing - Dave can do it all.

I spoke to Lisa who was very enthusiastic about my project, incredibly helpfull and patien as im an I.T. Dinosaur. Work was very high standard and changes done instantly.
Should i do another I know who I' m going to use.
Mick Mckenzie

Great communication and support from start to finish
From sketches to final drafts everything was faultless
Look forward to future collaborations

Lisa (Craft2Puplish) was very professional and did her best to ensure that the product she delivered was up to the required standard.
The finished illustrations were of good quality.
E-mail communication was frequent and she always did her best to resolve any issues I had with the illustrations.

I collaborated with Lisa and what an experience it was. Lisa really listened to my vision and created something so special with me for my children. Now that I have my printed copies, I can really see what we created together. I am so thankful to Lisa, thank you so much for the beautiful illustrations. My girls absolutely love their gift and it wouldn't have happened without you.

Craft 2 Publish helped me illustrate the book I wrote for my children in a lovely way with imagery applicable for younger children.
The communication was generally good however somtimes a little time was lost due to some feedback not always being implemented before the next draft was sent.

However overall I’m really happy with the book, the team were always responsive and happy to help to ensure the customer was happy! Would recommend and would use again.

Fast response, great turn around time. They turned my dream into a reality and I cannot thank them enough!

I am absolutely thrilled with the work Dave at Craft 2 Publish did illustrating my children’s book! Dave’s artistic talent is remarkable—he took my characters and brought them to life with incredible, captivating drawings that exceeded all my expectations. The illustrations are pure magic!

The entire process was fantastic thanks to their brilliant communication .Dave and the Craft 2 Publish team maintained a free-flowing, collaborative dialogue , patiently talking me through every single stage and breaking it down clearly. This made everything smooth, stress-free, and truly enjoyable.

I also used their additional services for professional proofreading and publishing guidance (including IngramSpark &Amazon KDP

I was so happy with the results and their dedication that I’ve already commissioned Dave and Craft 2 Publish for my second book!

Dave from Craft 2 Publish has created the most wonderful illustrations for my new children's picture book. The illustrations are perfect, bringing the story to life, the colour, the detail, all great. His creative vision is exceptional. He was able to capture my imagination and put it into an image with a few guiding sentences from me. His work transformed my text into a beautiful story and piece of art.

Just so you know, any adjustments I requested were quickly made. Dave was a guiding agent during some decision-making, and his artistic freedom transformed my reality into an actual story.

I highly recommend Craft2Publish and will 100% be using them in the future. Over the mood with the final results.

From the start of the project Lisa was very informative, offered a lot of support and reassurance with this being a completely new experience for me. The project itself seemed pretty stress free, the communication was great, mostly via WhatsApp which suited me fine. Lisa took my vision and illustrated beautifully with feedback taken on board throughout the process to make sure I was 100% happy with everything. I highly recommend Craft 2 publish, especially Lisa but I imagine the rest of the team are just as friendly and professional. Good luck to anyone who's planning their own projects I'm sure your experience will be enjoyed as much as mine was. Thank you Lisa, Jasmine

I like the experiencing it's simple and easy to understand.

Third book created and it looks great. Very happy.

Would I use Dave again? Yes I would. Were there some negative reviews? Yes there were. But I have to say, Dave didn’t shy away from answering the questions I asked and built my confidence in his work.
Never having used someone like this before I was super anxious but communication was very good with Dave answering my questions promptly. Regular sending of updates and a great final product.
If this is not your first time you may have a way you prefer. If this is your first time then, in my experience, Dave was very helpful and I am really happy with the final cover.
When I asked for changes, they were done, even if I then changed my idea and went back to the original.
The hardest thing for me was it was all done via messages or emails and I do like to speak to people but that’s probably because I am a 48 year old technophobe!! When my next book is done I WILL come back to speak to Dave again.

I can only base my review on my own experience, I’m not naive enough not to notice that the company is known under different names in some cases e.g. bank accounts - I don’t think that’s necessarily uncommon for businesses that offer multiple services to have different trading names and business entity names etc. and I understand other reviews may give people pause…

But based on my actual experience, through Dave, Craft2Publish did actually produce illustrations for my children’s poem - Dave managed to capture a lot of what I asked for successfully, in most cases. As promised, where I wanted things added/changed, Dave did complete them - overall there must have been over 30 versions of the illustrations due to my asking Dave to change something… and he did which in most cases took him less than a week.

The essence of what I asked for was captured really well and I am actually really happy with the final product. I have what I view to be quality illustrations for my poem, and I got them in a seamless, smooth process which was actually quite enjoyable.

I am by no standard a digital or artistic specialist, I cannot prove by any means that what I have been provided has not been produced through AI, I would like to think they are not and I have asked Dave about it and he has refuted these claims - I would probably encourage Craft2Publish to address these claims with more substance, giving an insight into their artistic process/production.

Where the other reviews don’t tally for me is, why would a company that uses AI to easily produce illustrations, take people’s money and not deliver a product they could so easily produce?

Again, I did get what I asked for, and everything that Craft2Publish promised, was delivered.

Illustrations of exemplary quality are what made my latest project a great success to date.
A professional, patient and practical approach by Dave led his talent to fulfil a promise to bring my characters to life! Dave's advice has been invaluable.
Everyone is wary these days of potential scammers. maybe rightly so. Some research is vital before parting with your cash or manuscript.
My experience has been very educational, professionally uplifting, definitely grateful for beautiful, relevant illustrations and I look forward to future business with Craft 2 Publish.

I have a book! My dream of publishing my charity children’s book ‘Oh Biscuit’ has come true. All the illustrations are fantastic, I sent pictures of key characters for likeliness and they came back with the perfect characters.

It took much longer than expected but I was fine with that as it gave me more time to save up for each instalment. I found the banking details suspicious (not going to lie) to a random account named Eagle Studios and then an account called Majestic Wheels but I ended up paying by credit card for some security. It’s not my business how they run their business but I was relieved when my final book was delivered. So I therefore recommend these guys!

I just had an amazing experience with Dave and Lisa for my Illustration and Publishing project. I was skeptic at first after seeing the reviews but I think this is one of their competitor trying to ruin the company's reputation. It's a shame trust pilot is not taking any action on these fake reviews.