Karla Marie looks like your buddy’s wife. She’s cute. Whenever you go out for a couples’ dinner and the drinks are flowing, you definitely flirt but never cross the line.
Bros before hoes, right?
You could see her working as a vet tech, volunteering at her daughter’s school once a week, helping those adorable little lumps of snot and sass learn how to read.
But no.
Karla sells a make-money-online program called Fiction Profits Academy, which she started in 2015 after years of earning six figures from publishing fiction novels.
Scroll down – things are about to get spicy.
Legend has it, a guy named Roy Lewis took the course in 2016.
Roy killed it, shocked it back to life, and then killed it again with an evil grin on his face.
Using what Karla taught him, he published 200+ books, 50 of which became top 100 Amazon Bestsellers.
He apparently made $2.3 million in the process.
Today, he’s listed as a co-founder of Fiction Profits Academy. Interesting.
With nearly 12,000 members in their private Facebook Group, I doubt Roy and Karla have much need to type out 233 pages about some horny housewife staring longingly into a beefcake’s eyes as the sun sets, aching for his calloused hands to explore her eager body.
Or whatever kinda shit’s in these novels, right?
Because the cost for FPA is $1,995.
So if my math is correct, that’s about $24 million in course sales – not counting any upsells they have waiting for you.
Either way, I guess I have no problem with them being full-time gurus now, as long as their process still works.
Karla says you can bet your bottom dollar it does.
They just reshot the training so it’s fresher than the lettuce in a vegan’s fridge.
Plus, as a bonus, you’re getting their Story Creation AI Software. This way, you don’t have to write these fiction books yourself or pay a ghostwriter the equivalent of a semester’s tuition at community college to do it for you.
But let’s talk Fiction Profits Academy reviews.
They’ve got an Excellent 4.6-star rating on Trustpilot after 2,283 supposed students have weighed in.
Seems impressive until you skim through them.
When you do, you discover the 5-star reviews are about as useful as edible underwear at fat camp.
It feels like they have you do one-on-one calls with a coach just so they can tell you to leave a review. Because they pretty much all say the same thing.
“Just had my Zoom call with Tara [or Daniel or Abby or Kandis or Shauna or whoever] and it went great!” they all report. “Super helpful and I left with a ton of notes! Yay FPA!” they add.
Why do they all sound so similar? You have to wonder.
And why leave feedback so early in the process? I wouldn’t recommend a movie after the opening credits, would you?
It’s only when you read their 1-star reviews that you get anywhere.
Take Peggy.
She completed the entire FPA coursework and published eight books, one boxset, and one lead magnet, following their guidelines to the T.
She invested over $8,000 on ghostwriters, editors, software, and ads, not counting the $2,000 program cost, but made less than $500 back.
Per Peggy, while they do teach self-publishing, it’s time-consuming and difficult, with very few members actually succeeding.
In their nonstop YouTube and Facebook ads, Karla and Roy say it’s easy, anyone can do it. Wrong, says Peggy.
She warns you not to fall for their marketing.
Between the lack of support, constant upselling, and deceptive advertising, she believes the program is unprofessional and predatory.
The real fiction, Peggy quips, is the profits they promise.
I tend to agree.
They oversell this, squeeze you for every last dollar on the back end, and pretend AI hasn’t turned the whole thing into a saturation circus – like it’s actually a good thing.
Now, their army of students can crank out low-quality books even faster, flooding Amazon at warp speed. Hooray! Right?
But hey, ‘Amazon AI’ sounds trendy as hell, so they’re milking it for all it’s worth.
For me, Fiction Profits Academy is a “no” with a restraining order attached.
But I bet they still follow me around with retargeting ads like that plus-sized stalker from Baby Reindeer.
Q&A
Q: Is Fiction Profits Academy real?
A: As real as the sweaty palms and tingly taint I got watching that Skywalkers documentary on Netflix. Meaning, yeah, they’ll teach you what they say. But they made this opportunity look like Halle Berry in her prime when it’s really Lizzo at her sloppiest.
Q: Is Karla Marie legit?
A: Karla would need a map, a compass, and a sherpa to get anywhere near honest about this course. Cue Maury: “And the lie detector determined… THAT was a lie!”
Q: What about Roy?
A: Roy seems like he’d be fun to commit crimes with. If you checked his search history, “is cocaine a business expense” would probably be right at the top – and no one would be shocked. Beyond that, I wouldn’t trust him to take out the trash without pawning the bin.
Q: What’s Karla Marie’s net worth?
A: Too needy bro. You’re clinging to Karla like Saran Wrap. Focus on yourself. Besides, whatever the number, it’s built on broken dreams and maxed-out credit cards.
Q: Any dirt on Reddit or the Better Business Bureau about FPA?
A: Plenty. The complaints echo what’s on Trustpilot – false advertising. If Karla had Roy piss in a cup, slapped a “bone broth” label on it, and hyped its health benefits, it’d still be more honest than their FPA ads. Oh, and fun fact from the BBB: Karla’s real name is Karla Blocka, Roy’s is Earl R Lewis III, and it’s all funneled through Digital Doers, LLC. Almost like they knew their reputation was destined to get pancaked by an electric Hummer of truth.
Q: What’s the FPA Workshop all about?
A: It previews the paid course, highlighting how to pick profitable niches and topics for Kindle fiction books, whip them up yourself, outsource to a ghostwriter, or just have ChatGPT do it, and then sell them on Amazon.
Q: How’s this differ from Low-Content Profits Academy?
A: That’s a $297 course by Rachel Harrison-Sund that teaches you how to generate passive income by creating and selling coloring books, sketchbooks, planners, journals, and more on Amazon.
Q: So what’s a good Fiction Profits Academy alternative?
A: I mean, you could always do what I do and rank small websites in Google. Watch this quick video.