I checked out the three fiction books on the agency website: 3 Gates of the Dead by Jonathan Ryan; The Tesla Gate by John Mimms; The Gateway Volt Gate N5 (just kidding)--Freak by Marie Jones.
All three books are, or will be, out with
Premier Digital Publishing. This appears to be a legitimate, agent-only digital publisher with titles by previous-generation legends like Stanislaw Lem, Andre Norton, and lots of stuff by living legend Piers Anthony.
Obviously, with all fiction authors being signed with this publisher, the agency has some sort of a direct pipeline to Premier Digital Publishing. Does this relationship with an e-pub with Andre Norton titles help new authors reach their full potential -- promotion, edit, and saleswise? I clicked a few new author titles of this publisher on Amazon -- the more successful ones were around 20 000 -- 40 000 as ranking, which is pretty fine, but far from enough in corresponding sales to earn a living and go pro, if Amazon Kindle is the major sales outlet--as it appears to be with these books.
*EDIT* not so: further research showed me that the Premier Digital Publishing books I clicked are actually older Big Six titles, now reprinted digitally. So that's that. The new crop of debut writers like Jonathan Ryan and John Mimms will show how things stand for the new crop of debut writers like Jonathan Ryan and John Mimms. *EDIT*
*EDIT2* Ryan's Gate book is actually in the first 2000 Kindle ranking. Good start.*EDIT2*
Generally speaking, I'd prefer to see if not regular bestsellers with the big six, then at least some unagented-yet-proven bigger publisher in an agency's list, like Ace, Tor, DAW, and Baen, or even some regular midlist placements with say Pyr, Edge, Darkfuse, Bedlam, Journalstone, Samhain, and the e-pub arms of the big six, not just the one place that reprints certain established titles by certain established names.
On the other hand the industry is changing pretty fast. Maybe Premier Digital Publishing are The Next Big Thing, and thus Gandolfo Helin are The Next Big Thing as well... I remember when Entangled sort of became The Next Big Thing about a year and a half ago, all of the sudden, with book after book on the NYT list...