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June 13, 2017
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By Carolyn Howard-Johnson
There
is a new
kink in the old agent-for-upfront-fee scam. One of my longtime writing
friends told me that just as she had been waiting for the “right time to
terminate” her relationship with her agent, she received a mass e-mail
informing her of the agent’s new fee-for-service plan. My friend then
terminated her contract (the terms of the contract had already expired)
and asked
that the mention of her books be removed from this former agent’s Web
site. The
agent refused her request (and other authors' requests) citing that she
was the
“agent of record” for those books.
I have no idea whether
keeping a book that is no longer represented by an agent on an agent’s site is
legal, but it certainly is misleading if not downright unethical. One of the
tools that authors use to judge the effectiveness of an agent is their
catalogue of book sales. It is important that you are all aware of this
practice and double check with some of the authors who have been (or are)
represented by any agent you are considering.
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