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buffoon writes:
Turns up on AgentQuery but not on Literary Agent Research. No website that I can find. One-line listing in 2006 Guide to Literary Agents. Preditors has the dollar sign indicating at least one verified sale, but nothing more. Cannot find much information at all.
Anyone have any experience with, dealings with, or unverified slander about said agent?
Thanks
buffoon
CaoPaux writes:
http://www.mpsaltis.com/ (http://www.regal-literary.com/about.html)
http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=75067
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Michael Psaltis is a literary agent in New York City. He works with both fiction and nonfiction authors through his own literary agency, and also heads up a division of Regal Literary that is dedicated solely to food writers and cookbook authors.
Looks solid.
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Hmm. The mpsaltis.com link baffles me a little. When you go there do you just get a page with a couple bits of not-so-useful text and no active links, or is my browser misbehaving?
Also - looking at Regal Literary, with which Psaltis is supposedly affiliated - their site doesn't mention him. Thoughts?
Yes, I've had dealings with Michael. Out of the dozen or so agents who requested partials and fulls from me, he is the only one (ever) to email me back with comments, telling me why it didn't work for him. All told, after about 90 queries/synopsis, he was the lone contact last year.
Tri
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JennaGlatzer writes:
This is a solid agent with significant sales (including six-figure deals) to Doubleday, Wiley, Thomas Dunne, Gotham, Avery, and others. Looks like he was with the Ethan Ellenberg agency until 2004, when he broke out on his own, then teamed up with Regal and called his division "The Culinary Cooperative." Most sales are cooking-related, but he's also sold memoirs, biographies, how-to, and other categories.
You can see a couple of his sales reported at Publishers Weekly:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6329600.html?industryid=23629&industry=Rights+De als+
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6290506.html?pubdate=12%2F12%2F2005&display=curr ent
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OK. Thanks, all, for the information!
buffoon writes:
Turns up on AgentQuery but not on Literary Agent Research. No website that I can find. One-line listing in 2006 Guide to Literary Agents. Preditors has the dollar sign indicating at least one verified sale, but nothing more. Cannot find much information at all.
Anyone have any experience with, dealings with, or unverified slander about said agent?
Thanks
buffoon
CaoPaux writes:
http://www.mpsaltis.com/ (http://www.regal-literary.com/about.html)
http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=75067
Quote:
Michael Psaltis is a literary agent in New York City. He works with both fiction and nonfiction authors through his own literary agency, and also heads up a division of Regal Literary that is dedicated solely to food writers and cookbook authors.
Looks solid.
__________________
CAO
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Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A Day
"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage." -- Charles DeSecondat
buffoon writes:
Hmm. The mpsaltis.com link baffles me a little. When you go there do you just get a page with a couple bits of not-so-useful text and no active links, or is my browser misbehaving?
Also - looking at Regal Literary, with which Psaltis is supposedly affiliated - their site doesn't mention him. Thoughts?
triceretops writes:
Yes, I've had dealings with Michael. Out of the dozen or so agents who requested partials and fulls from me, he is the only one (ever) to email me back with comments, telling me why it didn't work for him. All told, after about 90 queries/synopsis, he was the lone contact last year.
Tri
__________________
"I'm going to write some day."
(There's no day of week named some day)
Rejection Pledge 13/20
Left off at 66,740
JennaGlatzer writes:
This is a solid agent with significant sales (including six-figure deals) to Doubleday, Wiley, Thomas Dunne, Gotham, Avery, and others. Looks like he was with the Ethan Ellenberg agency until 2004, when he broke out on his own, then teamed up with Regal and called his division "The Culinary Cooperative." Most sales are cooking-related, but he's also sold memoirs, biographies, how-to, and other categories.
You can see a couple of his sales reported at Publishers Weekly:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6329600.html?industryid=23629&industry=Rights+De als+
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6290506.html?pubdate=12%2F12%2F2005&display=curr ent
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OK. Thanks, all, for the information!
