Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Along with Miss Snark, I'm pissed

So here's my helping hand. No scamming agent is going to get away with hurting the online writing community for telling the truth.

Barbara Bauer is listed on the SFWA's Twenty Worst Agents list. She also managed to get an interruption of service pulled on Absolute Write (details here) While not technically an interruption of service attack, the site is coming back online at a different host, hopefully with all data intact.

Oh and Ms. Bauer, you don't scare me. Here's another copy of the Twenty Worst Agents list. These guys are scammers, not sincere and real agents.

* The Abacus Group Literary Agency
* Allred and Allred Literary Agents (refers clients to "book doctor" Victor West of Pacific Literary Services)
* Barbara Bauer Literary Agency
* Benedict Associates (also d/b/a B.A. Literary Agency)
* Sherwood Broome, Inc.
* Capital Literary Agency (formerly American Literary Agents of Washington, 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, formerly Sydra-Techniques)
-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, Simply Nonfiction, and Michele Glance Rooney Literary Agency)
* Southeast Literary Agency
* Mark Sullivan Associates
* West Coast Literary Associates (also d/b/a California Literary Services)

This list can be found at SFWA's Writer Beware site



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