The Word Cloud

Agents made a lot of headlines this week. First we had top UK agent Ed Victor, announcing the launch of his publishing imprint. Fellow agent Peter Cox bravely called for him to be thrown out of the Association of Author’s Agents. 

Curtis Brown UK indicated they will follow Mr. Victor into publishing shortly. This is the agency that already has a $2500, 12 hour “creative writing” course where “stand-out students will be offered representation”. How many conflicts of interest can one agency have?

Some people have called agents becoming publishers a scam. An attorney laid out detailed steps that an agent/publisher should take to avoid conflicts of interest and also explained how to sue your agent if they are no longer acting in your interest. 

Stephen Leather capped the week off by calling US agents a variety of salty names on Joe Konrath’s blog. The Blogger collapse on Friday deleted a lot of the saucier responses, but have a search on Twitter to see what some US agents thought of that.

For all the links to those stories, and more, pop on over:
http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/a-bad-week-for-agents/

Dave