Founded in 2004, Dog Ear Publishing is part of the surge of Author Solutions-style assisted self-publishing companies–many of them now defunct–that entered the market in the early aughts.

Headquartered, like AS, in Indiana, Dog Ear presents itself–with more than a smidge of exaggeration–as “The best of traditional publishing, re-imagined for the modern author”. Its publishing and marketing packages are typical for this type of company, and while they’re not among the most expensive, they aren’t cheap, either.

Unlike the various Author Solutions imprints, Writer Beware never received any complaints about Dog Ear, which appears to have been reasonably trouble-free for most of its existence.

Not so now.