Global Lion Intellectual Pty. Mgmt. (formerly PMA Literary & Film Management)

one day turnaround --- reject

form reject
from amina

sigh.

I e-queried Adrienne Rosado at PMA on February 23; when I hadn't heard anything by April 23, I followed up with a status request. By the end of May, I still hadn't heard anything and wrote it off as a rejection. Surprise, I got a rejection (looked like form) in my box today.

Peter Miller?

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience with the NYC agent, Peter Miller?

If you hit "Search" at the top of this page and type in his name, a large thread about his agency pops up for you.

And hello!

Yeah, I did. He's allright, met him at a seminar, he totally took me the wrong way, and we did not hit it off to say the least, he's had some success and I hear/tell he gives good representation, trys, but he reminded me of a bit of a huckster looking to score big instead of trying to work with and develope an author, IMO.... Not a scam artist, so don't get the wrong impression, on a scale of 1-10 probably midroad 5-6

Peter's definitely got his own style. I went back and forth with him for several months about a book, and I honestly couldn't figure out what he was saying most of the time. I usually felt he was answering some question during our correspondence, just not the one I'd asked. He called me once to ask if he'd emailed me and seemed annoyed (with me) to hear that he hadn't.

But for all that, I sort of enjoyed him. He seems like a nice, if perplexing, guy and he definitely gets revved up. Makes sales too. I just met one of his clients at a party and she absolutely adores him.

PMA Literary Agency and Management

Hi,

I found the agent Mr Peter Miller at PMA Literary Agency on AQ. I assumed he was a genuine literary agent as he was listed on AQ.

Question 1) Are all agents listed on AQ legitimate?

Now, I get a reply with about 10 links to various books and you tube videos. If anyone is interested, I'd be glad to PM the contents of the e-mail. It seems very unprofessional to advertise so to a writer who's querying him.

Question 2) Any knowledge about this person? The search function brought up 500+ threads and nothing specific.

Sorry if there's a thread existing about this agent.

(PS: In his reply, he said that an assistant would oversee my query and get back to me. My name was spelled wrong in the reply. The various paragraphs of the reply are also in various fonts. The e-mail's pretty much floating in red flags. )

Darzian said:

Question 1) Are all agents listed on AQ legitimate?

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Pretty much. I've only come across one dodgy one and they took her off the list

PMA

What do we know about Peter Miller and PMA, especially relating to working with unknown writers?

We know there is a very large thread on them here.

Please look before you start a new thread

I did a search. Got zilch. Relax.

Thanks for the merge. I searched for PMA Literary Agency, I think, and didn't get very productive results.

Thanks again. I'll have a look through the thread.

CaoPaux said:

What terms did you use? A search for Peter Miller comes right to it.

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I used PMA. Maybe I should've used Peter Miller.

I e-queried PMA yesterday. We'll see what happens.

has anyone recieved a rejection or request from Kelly Skillen? If so how long was it from query to R?

I didn't see this anywhere else in the thread, though I could have missed it since there are a lot of posts. Near the bottom of their submissions page, they have the following:

"Though we expect writers to go by the standard rule of exclusive submissions, if, by chance, the work you submitted to us is also under consideration by another agency or management company, please let us know the status of that relationship as soon as it begins."

elsewhere on the page, they have:

"Based on your initial query letter and synopsis, our office may request sample chapters, your manuscript in its entirety, your nonfiction proposal or your completed screenplay. If your work is under consideration by another agency or management company, we ask that you let us know at that time."

So I'm assuming the first statement only refers to partials and fulls as exclusive submissions (a query is not a "submission" in this case). Is that how everyone else reads it?

chrisrose331 said:

has anyone recieved a rejection or request from Kelly Skillen? If so how long was it from query to R?

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I e-queried Ms. Skillen in early September and received a polite e-rejection about three to four weeks later.

I've been having problems e-mailing a query to this agency. I've tried several times over the past two months, and all but once I've received a notice that the e-mail couldn't be delivered because their inbox was "over quota." The one time I didn't receive that notice was back in early November, but I haven't gotten a response to the query, so I'm thinking that one didn't go through, either.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with PMA? And if so, did you ever figure out a way around it, or did you just give up?

Queried Dec. 30th and got a personalized acknowledgment the next day from PM ("Dear Kara," not "Dear Author"). Pretty impressive.

Krista G. - Queried Kelly Skillen at her email address ([email protected]) and rec'd the same "over quota" return.

Maybe this is a recent thing?

I just sent a query to Peter Miller. Received a general auto response that it was received, but then I got this:

"Kelley

I will be in SF Feb 12th to 16th

Best

Peter Miller, President"

Uh-? Was this just an auto response, too?

Huh. Do you live in San Francisco? Think that's what it could be short for?

Wanta see something unusual? Go to Peter Miller's website and follow the Film and Television link for a picture of PM (the Literary Lion) with porn star Marilyn Chambers. Remember her? The Ivory Snow model that broke into the porn business in BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR.