Miss Snark has a post where she talks about the top 20 bad agents according to Writer Beware.
Writer Beware’s 20 Worst Agents
THE LIST:
- 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)
- Michelle 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)
- Lee Shore Literary Agency gets the No. 21 Honorary Runner Up mention here.
See updates:
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