Gregory Branson Trent the jig is up

We aren't the only ones calling this self proclaimed "best selling author" a scammer. Reviews for his book The Ultimate Book Of Spells And Essential Potions on Amazon show that a lot of people now know Branson Trent is a con man. By the way, it was Google who removed each and every one of his blogs hosted for free at Blogger.com.

Here is the link to the original review on Amazon.com

"Buyer Beware, July 23, 2012
By Elysia TessekThis review is from: The Ultimate Book Of Spells And Essential Potions (Paperback)
I did not buy this book, nor would I ever buy anything written by this imposter. All of his books contain plagiarized material, at least from the short glimpses I have been able to view through Amazon's "look inside" feature. For example, this book's excerpt starts with instructions on how to make a Book of Shadows that is directly copied from About.com's Pagan/Wiccan website, which is written by Patti Wiggington. Here is the link if Amazon allows it: [...] - if not, just Google the phrase "preventing candle wax and other" and you will immediately see which articles on the internet use that language and once there, you can follow along WORD for WORD.

Next in this book is a section called "Basic Working Spell Outline" which you can quickly find on Google by searching "we all have different ways and routines" - this turns up several articles, again verbatim.

If you would rather spend $4.99 (Kindle) or $19.99 (paperback) than just browse the internet for free, go ahead. But know that this man steals other people's work, on every book I have checked of his. Gee, isn't it just a little suspicious that he has been "writing" and publishing a new book just about every month? Get wise, lots of people are doing this on Amazon now to make a quick buck now that they've taken the publisher - ordinarily your first line of defense - out of the mix and allowed fools like this to self-publish directly to Amazon. Don't get taken in by this scammer. "

Again, this matter isn't going to disappear even if Gregory Branson Trent tries to. These printed copies still exist. He did profit off of the works of real authors. The Bogus Barrister would be grateful to those who may have electronic copies of these books for our review so that we can locate the victimized authors.

Important Updates about Gregory Branson Trent

The Bogus Barrister believes that this incidence with Gregory Branson Trent who has been stealing the works of published authors and passing them off as his own is nothing more than a con artist rather than somebody who really wanted to be a writer. The Barrister first heard about this man from Rev. Sinthyia who told us that this man stole her news articles from Miami Paranormal's website and also her news articles from her Examiner News columns. Branson Trent removed the last two sentances from an article about Lady Gaga's interest in paranormal activity. Those sentances make a personal statement about the real author and Gregory Branson Trent was still passing off these works as his own so he couldn't out himself. Well, he has been outted in a big way. Author Carl Neil tipped us off about Gregory Branson Trent having been busted for stealing the published works of Pagan author Scott Cunningham as well as his own works. This con artist had the audacity to take those works and publish them in book format as his own. What this guy did goes way past stealing website content. You can see Carl's blog about it here.

Amazon has since suspended book sales by Mr. Trent. All of his blogs and his official website has also been deleted. http://thebookofshadowsblog.blogspot.com/ , http://paranormalworldblog.blogspot.com/ . In fact, it looks like his Google account has been completely shut down. . So far, his books are still for sale on Barnes and Noble's website. I'm sure they won't be up there for long.

Even his page at publishedauthors.net has been deleted. http://www.publishedauthors.net/gregorybransontrent/ But we think he forgot about his Twitter page! According to his Flickr page, Trent describes himself and the long list of book he published.

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Gregory Branson-Trent has been a published author for 15 years now. His writing has spanned from biography style works to science fiction and non-fiction. His first release was the book Olivia Newton-John…More Than Physical, a biography styled book in 1994. He continued with, Magic: The Music of Olivia Newton-John, The Unexplained: Amelia Earhart, Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, Aliens And Ghosts (releasing December 2009), Vampires Among Us: Children Of The Night, Creatures Of Myth And Legend, and has many other books.

Included is a series of books about paranormal psychology Ghosts, Hauntings, And The Dark Side Of The Cemetery, Return To The Cemetery: More Ghosts And Hauntings (releasing November 2009), Haunted Hollywood: Ghosts of The Dead Famous, and in 2010 Haunted Houses: Around The World.

In early 2009 he released Mysteries Of The Unexplained: Vampires, Aliens, Ghosts, Atlantis, and Bigfoot. He is also in the process of releasing a science fiction series with Project Exodus: Child of Light, Child of Darkness, and Project Exodus: Dark Awakening.

And coming soon, the novel Grandma Ran A Whore House. Also the books… The History Of Christmas, From Saint To Santa: The History Of Santa Claus and The History Of Halloween. Also, look for the Television Episode guides for: The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Wonder Woman.

In the coming years, Gregory will continue his book series exploring the Metaphysical. His current releases explore Wicca and also an Encyclopedia of Magick. In other releases there will be books on Tarot, Runes, Chakra, and the Healing Properties of Stones and Crystals. Look for the following titles: Charmed: Wicca Witchcraft And The Book Of Shadows, The Encyclopedia Of Magick And The Ocult, Inside The Chakra: An Experience In Natural Magick, Inside The World Of Tarot And Magick, Runes A Guide to Divination and Magick Uses, The Witch’s' Kitchen: Incense Oil And Candle Recipes, The Witch's Spell Book, The Witches' Halloween and The Magick and Healing Properties of Crystals, Metals and Stones.

Look for books by Gregory Branson-Trent online at gregorybranson-trent.com, and at Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, Books-A-Million, Target.com, Borders and in other major book stores.

Gregory Branson-Trent books are distributed worldwide through Ingram Distributers.


15 years folks. That's how long he was running this scam. He has over 40 books in print!

If anybody has copies of any of these books, please get in touch with us or Carl Neil. We would like to check out the content so that we can identity other authors who have been victims of this internet huckster. To our elation, we discovered that PublishsAmerica (one of our favorite subjects here on this blog) have published several of this man's books! Now the publisher's have a liablity in this and it pleases us to no end that the brunt of this scandal may fall aquarely on the block heads of PublishAmerica, who are already in very serious trouble after getting slapped with a class action lawsuit.

It looks like Gregory Branson Trent knows the jig is up and is running. That will not stop prosecution. And this could get really ugly when the publishers get involved. it's just incredible that he thought that he could get away with this.

Our guess is, he will just show turn up again, running this scam scam, but using a different name. However, gathering these authors and prosecuting him would prevent this.

This appears to be a book review by "Witchvox" pertaining to the book in which this scammer was busted for stealing the works of Scott Cunningham and Carl Neil.

Gregory Branson-Trent Plagiarizes Scott Cunningham and Others

One of the scammers we have previously blogged about, Gregory Branson-Trent. You can read our previous posts about him here and here. Our posts are regarding Gregory Branson Trent's blatent theft of the intellectual property of authors and websites. Not only is he stealing the works of others, but he is also selling these stolen works as his own. He has 40 books in print some of them published by PublishAmerica.

He has now gone from stealing the works of paranormal researchers and authors to stealing works of Pagan authors.

This is Gregory Branson-Trent's Facebook page.

Gregory Branson Trent Paranormal Fraud

Thanks to an anonymous tipster the Bogus Barrister has been checking out websites run by Greg Branson Trent. After looking into allegations that he steals stories verbatim from real authors, we have caught him stealing his material from theshadowlands, Miamiparanormal.com, hauntedamericatours.com and from several authors who published this material in books. Apparently he has been taking what he steals from these sources and publishes it on his numerous blogs. Not a single story turned out to be written by him. Take this story for eample that he published on March 20, 2012 about Shirley Plantation. All you need to do is head on over to Copyscape put the link to that blog post in and hit search. Voila! This story has been ripped off of the Shadowlands.net! http://theshadowlands.net/famous/shirley.htm Ironically and you'll love his, he has the nerve to preach about good manners and decency
This guy is a whole other breed of scammer. Of course, at least some of his books are published by PublishAmerica. I think PublishAmerica and Amazon should be aware that they are helping him perpetrate this fraud by publishing his books.