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Agents can be bitches!

I have no idea if any writers at all visit my site, but I came across some interesting news today. A popular website for writers, that I admittedly never visited until today, posted a 20 Worst Agents List on their website. The site, Absolute Write is one of the few writing sites not meant to post your short poem/opera/screenplay version of "Puff the Magic Dragon" - done in three lines. This site actually has writers.

One literary agent took offense to her presence on the list of bad agents and complained to the host, claiming the site was causing her spam and thus, labeling them as spammers, and thus: shutting them down. You can read a direct account here. And Miss Snark, an honest and rockin' literary agent, posted her own response to the debacle here.

Let's all take a minute to thank Miss Snark.

Being that I am a writer and I love all acts of free speech (including calling Barbara Bauer a scared cow whose scams are caught), I will also post the list of worst agents. Take a look:

* The Abacus Group Literary Agency
* Allred and Allred Literary Agents (refers clients to “book doctor” Victor West of Pacific Literary Services)
* Capital Literary Agency (formerly American Literary Agents of Washington, Inc.)
* Barbara Bauer Literary Agency
* Benedict & Associates (also d/b/a B.A. Literary Agency)
* Sherwood Broome, Inc.
* Desert Rose Literary Agency
* Arthur Fleming Associates
* Finesse Literary Agency (Karen Carr)
* Brock Gannon Literary Agency
* Harris Literary Agency
* The Literary Agency Group, which includes the following:

Children’s Literary Agency
Christian Literary Agency
New York Literary Agency
Poets Literary Agency
The Screenplay Agency
Stylus Literary Agency (formerly ST Literary Agency)
Writers Literary & Publishing Services Company (the editing arm of the above-mentioned agencies)

* Martin-McLean Literary Associates
* Mocknick Productions Literary Agency, Inc.
* B.K. Nelson, Inc.
* The Robins Agency (Cris Robins)
* Michele Rooney Literary Agency (also d/b/a Creative Literary Agency and Simply Nonfiction)
* Southeast Literary Agency
* Mark Sullivan Associates
* West Coast Literary Associates (also d/b/a California Literary Services)

Writers unite!

Now find me a literary agent to publish my memoir, will ya?

posted by christen roberts @ 7:33 AM