Re: agents

[Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>]

Thanks for the National Writers Union info George. On that website the 
following was written about the Writer's Market:

"...Many writers are of the opinion that the Writers' Market books published
by Writers Digest are packed with fraudulent, "business card" agents.
However, note that the magazine itself has responded well to NWU complaints
about ads by unscrupulous agents. "

There is a nice grievance link on that website which warns writers about
which bad eggs to look out for in the business. If the same existed for the
music industry (does it?) we could have a good chance at getting paid every
once in awhile. Josh

>From: George Robinson <grcomm (at) concentric(dot)net>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: agents
>Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2002, 6:33 PM
>

> You'd do somewhat better with Literary Market Place (LMP in the biz).
> But you might also want to hear what writers think of their agents,
> since both Writers Market and LMP info comes from the agents themselves.
> For that, you could join the National Writers Union (I'm a member for
> over 20 years) and check their agents' database which is based on
> reports from writers who've dealt with the agents. Go to
> http://www.nwu.org/ for more info.
>
> Also, before you even begin that process, take a look at the
> acknowledgements in books in your specific field or by authors whose
> work you respect, and see who their agents are. There a gazillion agents
> out there and you may want to narrow the search a bit right at the
> start.
>
> George
>
> Trudi Goodman wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>       Check in the compilation the Writer's Market puts out every
>> year...they should have it in the reference section of your Library.
>>
>>       Trudi the G
>>
>>
>>
>>  >From: Lori Cahan-Simon
>> >Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>> >To: World music from a Jewish slant
>> >Subject: agents
>> >Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:45:45 -0500
>> >
>> >Does anyone know if there are literary agents that deal with Jewish
>> >books?
>> >
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