Barbara Bauer Literary Agency / Literary Management Professionals

James D. Macdonald · Sep 21, 2006

emeraldlatina said:
But what goes around comes around.....

Barbara Bauer talks about 'criminal fraud' on her website.

She'd know, wouldn't she?

emeraldlatina · Sep 21, 2006

This seems like a really good and reliable place to get information and feedback. My mom tells me to just forget about the past, with everything that happened with the Barbara Bauer Agency and focus on the future. With all the complaints I can't believe she's still in business. I guess it's people like me who keep her in business. Well, at least she's got one less client.

SC Harrison · Sep 21, 2006

emeraldlatina said:
This seems like a really good and reliable place to get information and feedback. My mom tells me to just forget about the past, with everything that happened with the Barbara Bauer Agency and focus on the future. With all the complaints I can't believe she's still in business. I guess it's people like me who keep her in business. Well, at least she's got one less client.

Your mom is partially right. Try to forget the feeling of failure that she caused by getting your hopes up only to let you languish waiting for news. Try to forget your own self-doubt as you slowly realized the truth of your situation. Try not to dwell on the money that was spent, and all the other things you could have spent it on. These thoughts will only make you miserable and cause you to question your ability as a writer, and they have absolutely nothing to do with that analysis.

Do not forget the way you felt when you wrote your work; the joy of creation is a beautiful thing unto itself, and losing that joy can be more painful than the loss of money.

emeraldlatina · Sep 26, 2006

SC Harrison said:
Your mom is partially right. Try to forget the feeling of failure that she caused by getting your hopes up only to let you languish waiting for news. Try to forget your own self-doubt as you slowly realized the truth of your situation. Try not to dwell on the money that was spent, and all the other things you could have spent it on. These thoughts will only make you miserable and cause you to question your ability as a writer, and they have absolutely nothing to do with that analysis.

Do not forget the way you felt when you wrote your work; the joy of creation is a beautiful thing unto itself, and losing that joy can be more painful than the loss of money.

Thank You for your kind words. You are right!!!!

emeraldlatina · Oct 8, 2006

I wonder if Barbara Bauer ever refuses a submission?

Bartholomew · Oct 26, 2006

With that new website claiming Barbara Bauer to be the #1 literary agency in the world, I think this thread needs bumped.

Barbara Bauer does not sell books to publishing houses.

She charges substantial fees, pockets them, and then lets your MS collect dust.

xhouseboy · Oct 27, 2006

emeraldlatina said:
I wonder if Barbara Bauer ever refuses a submission?

I can't see how she possibly could. It would fly in the face of her business practise. She's in the numbers game.

James D. Macdonald · Oct 27, 2006

Barbara Bauer is listed on the IILAA / International Independent Literary Agents Association site.

James D. Macdonald · Oct 28, 2006

Oh, and guys? I just listened to Barbara Bauer's podcast on "What's Wrong with Publishing."

It's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

MacAllister · Oct 28, 2006

You can distill the whole podcast down to about three sentences:

"See, there's all these blogs where someone is paying 'em to say mean stuff, and Google is making money off that!"
"Well, that's gotta be stopped! It's hurting business! It's a publishing CRISIS! Who polices the Interwebs, anyways?"
"Google has to put a stop to it, that's who!"

:ROFL:

Novelust · Oct 28, 2006

My favorite parts of that podcast have to be when Barbara reveals that Miss Snark is actually a team of writers (she actually uses the term 'dragoon' of writers) with an agenda -- and the bit where Ms. Bauer puts forth that the Googlebombing had to have been the work of hired professionals.

xhouseboy · Oct 28, 2006

I note that barbara failed to list any of her credits during this 24 minutes of damage limitation gobsh1te: 'It will have an impact on consumers - it's bad for the economy (yeah, her economic well-being, not those she scams) - ethics and morality (that was the clincher)'.

All she needed do was state something like: 'they're hurting me, a bona-fide agent who has in all my years in this business sold...'

But then i suppose that would have brought this tosh to a grinding halt.

it was like eavesdropping on four old lags planning on how to go about their next hoist after the last job was rumbled.

victoriastrauss · Oct 28, 2006

My fave podcast moment was fee-charger David Hiatt saying that "most" of the agencies on Writer Beware's 20 Worst List had been out of business for 10 or 20 years. Not so. If we'd included Worst Agencies that are out of business, it would have been the 40 Worst List.

- Victoria

James D. Macdonald · Oct 28, 2006

"Now they did do a Google-bombing of the Barbara Bauer Literary Agency in May after a popular writers' website was shut down by its service provider and some are saying that that Google-bombing had to have been done by experts who were paid to program and to write that blog."

-- Barbara Bauer, PhD

This Google-bombing was performed by trained professionals. Kids, don't try this at home.

MacAllister · Oct 28, 2006

Google ads--bad for the economy. ROFLMAO!

Alan Yee · Oct 28, 2006

Wow. I'm restraining myself from clicking on that podcast, because I'm afraid I might die laughing trying to listen to it.

P.S. I'm on the first page of Google on a search for "Barbara Bauer, Ph.D." It's my comment at Making Light in which I reproduced (from memory) my post from the Twenty Worst Agents thread. I feel so special.

Rolling Thunder · Oct 28, 2006

I went to the link to download the podcast and it's not available!

Maybe a dragoon of meanies liberated it? Poor Bawbwa.....

Dawno · Oct 28, 2006

James D. Macdonald said:
"Now they did do a Google-bombing of the Barbara Bauer Literary Agency in May after a popular writers' website was shut down by its service provider and some are saying that that Google-bombing had to have been done by experts who were paid to program and to write that blog."

-- Barbara Bauer, PhD

This Google-bombing was performed by trained professionals. Kids, don't try this at home.

(emphasis above is mine)

Damm1t ... where's my check* for all the links I posted and the Technorati Tag I created??

"Some" are saying, huh. I would bet all the change under the couch cushions their initials are BB...

*I do have a cool tee-shirt, however

jchines · Oct 28, 2006

James D. Macdonald said:
"Now they did do a Google-bombing of the Barbara Bauer Literary Agency in May after a popular writers' website was shut down by its service provider and some are saying that that Google-bombing had to have been done by experts who were paid to program and to write that blog."

-- Barbara Bauer, PhD

You know, as one of the writers who helped initiate the Googlebomb, I want to know when I'll be getting my paycheck!

And can I put Ms. Bauer down as a reference if I apply for a programming job?

Christine N. · Oct 28, 2006

No, I got it fine.

Mighty fine entertainment, let me tell you...

What a crock. Man, if she was in the fertilizer business, she'd be rich. She really should stop trying to be an agent and write a book, 'cause fiction just spews from her brain.

LeslieB · Oct 28, 2006

Hmm. Think "Professional Googlebomber" would look good on my resume?

Christine N. · Oct 28, 2006

Yeah, I totally want all the credit I can get for my little part in that.

Barbara, there's a special circle in hell (that I don't believe in) just for people like you. Really.

I think the only people who listened to the podcast were those of us who downloaded it to laugh at it.

Oh, and Miss Snark also finds it hysterical.

I sent her the link, just to give her a chuckle.

DTKelly · Oct 29, 2006

All right...

I didn't realize that google was in charge of the Internet.

I'm so out of the loop.

I love it when people that don't have a clue try to explain the problem.

victoriastrauss · Oct 29, 2006

Rllgthunder said:
I went to the link to download the podcast and it's not available!

I just checked it, and it's still there.

- Victoria

dragonjax · Oct 29, 2006

jchines said:
[/indent]You know, as one of the writers who helped initiate the Googlebomb, I want to know when I'll be getting my paycheck!

And can I put Ms. Bauer down as a reference if I apply for a programming job?

God, this cracked me up...

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