Hello, my name is Jasheem Wilson and I am an indie-author, known for the She Was a Friend of Mine series and working at Delphine Publications for the last six years. I started writing when I was eight years old and it has been instrumental to my mental health as well as therapeutic. After becoming a felon at a young age, getting a job has always been next to impossible. Like most repeat offenders, I stayed in and out of jail and the system trying to refind my place in a world that claims rehabilitation is possible yet does nothing to try and help you do that. I made pocket change and stole here and there to get by until a time when I was facing more time in jail than I'd ever faced in my life. In order to deal and cope, I picked up a pencil and started writing. I lost myself in writing until I'd gotten over three hundred pages of binder paper; front and back. 

I'd handwritten the first three books in the She Was a Friend of Mine series. I read it over and over again, rewriting to make it perfect. The book was my pride and joy, it made it with me for two transfers to other facilities and back into my hands when I was finally released. 

I was going to get my book published.

I ended up self-publishing after a few rejections of the manuscript. I started making four figure income from She Was a Friend of Mine. When my royalties dwindled down and I was having trouble with keeping up with the financial part of being self-published and taxes and whatnot, I decided to look for an urban publisher.

My dream was to sign to Triple Crown Publications, but, I was too late. The company was gone and there was a lot of drama surrounding the company and the ower. So, I continued to look, sending in requests to other publishing houses. I found Delphine Publications and decided to go with them after a lot of research and talking to the owner Tamika Newhouse.

I was sure I'd found me a home and I was ready to publish books. And I did. It was not easy and I stayed broke most of the time. In order to pay for books and other items Tamika said I needed, I fell back on my illegal hustles. I scraped together all I could over the years and even stayed in my car.

The entire time, my books were selling and I didn't know. Over the years, here and there I would get a check from Tamika Newhouse for my book, but it was never over a certain amount. As the years went on and I wrote more books and got more involved in Tamika's business and company, questions started to rise. 

I was sent a statement for my lifetime sales of my book and I'd made over $7,000 and to date, had only received a check for $190.00. I asked about it and was told that there was a check sent that I did not cash. It took three months in which Tamika got an attitude every time I asked about an update to the point, I thought I was in the wrong. After taking her time Tamika told me that my money was right because I had books returned. At that time she sent me a total of $800 for the checks that weren't cashed and the money that was owed to me for the new work quarter. Then she told me that the books returned equal to about the same amount $800. I tried to explain that $1600 is not 30% of what my book actually made.

She decided not to respond, so, I place my two weeks notice in for all of her companies. Within thirty minutes of sending in my two weeks notice, she locked me out of all systems and told me that she was going to keep my book until 2020, or I could buy the rights back from her for $1000 per book, per years, totally to about $50,000.

It took me over two weeks to get the information. Tamika responded once a week, maybe.

I took to social media to complain and have since found five other authors who worked for her in the past saying the same thing. They explain why they left and since I went public, Tamika Newhouse's shady business practices started coming to light. It is not just the authors who work for her publishing company, there are also vendors and people who had business relations with her or one of her companies that she has played out of money. She is using the guise of helping the black community, especially the black literary world and taking their money. 

I know when it comes to the authors she overcharges authors for the cost of their physical books by more than %50 percent, while simultaneously not paying them for the paperback books that are bought off Amazon, or for the sales, their books get on Barns & Noble, GoogleBooks and Apple Books. I have yet to see a statement from any distributor about how many books they bought, but, I did see how many were returned. She forces her authors to sign an NDA and then bullies them into not speaking about what she did and or does. 

But, I tell you not today. 

This petition is for anyone who has done business with Delphine Publications, Delphine Legacy Media, the AAMBC and/or Tamika Newhouse. This petition is to shed light on what Tamika Newhouse is doing and to hold her accountable for the careers she claims to have built and done everything to destroy. This petition is so that new, aspiring and current Authors know what they are getting into with Tamika and her businesses. This petition is to get back the works of art, family stories, blood, sweat, and tears not only I put into my work, but others put into theirs. Because of Tamika, sever authors who have seen Amazon's bestsellers list have lost their zest and passion for writing. 

Help us stop Tamika Newhouse from destroying someone else's dream. 

Lets #boycottDelphine, so do not buy books, the authors who wrote it don't get paid for it. #boycottaambc Do not go to the awards, it is a shame and it is all about what Tamika came make or who she can get to see her.