Good read but not true
Mr. Al Longden sent me the contract himself not another agent. However, he did want to pass me along to another agent who I have never met once I signed with him. When I contacted her former boss they would not give a recommendation.
David Gernert, who is John Grisham's agent, told me himself that Mr. Grisham was never represented by Rights Unlimited but that years ago someone at that agency sold some of John's Foreign Rights to his early books.
Dr. Robert Atkin's wife and his people told me sorry that they have never heard of Rights Unlimited representing him. Clueless who RU was.
Dr. Ruth may have once been represented by RU but not today.
Mercer Meyer is not represented by RU either.
Harcourt has no record of a Publisher by that name. Another sister company that went out of business has information on that name, though.
Mia Vita and The American Bible Society have nothing to offer in the way of a recommendation. Perhaps, all of the above knew him by a different name. I don't know.
I have no intention of taking apart anyone's credits or claims either. In the wonderful age of the I-Net all you have to do is a Search and see / read for yourself who has done what with their lives. Often people switch careers later in life and become writers, agents, whatever. I don't know, really. But I do believe that some agents and publishers should write fiction, though.
No one at Rights Unlimited ever returned any of my phone calls or offered to waive their $250 signing fee x two either. The contract was for 3 years with an auto renewal of 2 years with an author paying all office expenses after 90 days if terminated. It was filled with other "landmines" as my entertainment attorney pointed out. Outdated or not a landmine is a landmine. Unfortunate or unintentional to me, still no one at Rights Unlimited has ever retracted the offered contract and it would have stood if signed outdated or not. In fact, this is the FIRST time I have heard that the said contract offered was anything more than a dream come true for this writer who has written for well over 10 years every day, holiday, with job or without job, sick, well, near death, with four eye surgeries during the last year alone with high hopes of one day seeing her books in print.
It was a crying shame that this had to happen to me for the day before my last surgery I had spent 5 hours printing out both my novels to send to RU and told my doctor in Boston all about this agency before they put me under and it all turned out to be just another story for me to tell....
It is my hope and prayer that one day I find the right agent for me and my work and the same for all of you and your work. That, my fellow writers, comes straight from my heart.
In closing, God bless us everyone!