Drew Montgomery Literary Management / The Montgomery Literary Agency

Darn, I was going to provide her with a list of highly unlikely but completely possible reasons why two unrelated people might have the same IP address.

What's the matter with her?

Doesn't she know that the next step is supposed to be posting a page denouncing the conspiracy by AAR and their paid character assassins who are trying to keep new writers from being published by questioning the competence of wholly, completely, absolutely on the up-and-up new agencies?

She must not have read the handbook.

Bushdoctor said:

are you telling me that you guys made an agent disappear?
this is the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen

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I've helped send disreputable agents to jail before. But I've never actually made one disappear!

Wonder what name she'll turn up under next?

- Victoria

I don't know about a WB blog post about this, but there's a thesis in here somewhere about how not to pretend to be an agent.

I strongly suspect she's role-playing.

As my aunt used to say, People are funny that way.

WB blog post--oh yeah. I'm already gathering my documentation.

- Victoria

victoriastrauss said:

Wonder what name she'll turn up under next?

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Probably something easily recognizable. She doesn't seem to be big on truly creative sockpuppetry. I mean, turning up to defend yourself under a handle that's already been linked to a former incarnation of yourself? How sadly inept was that.

Where are the scamsters of yore; who could run a bevy of sockpuppets, uphill, in the snow, easily boosting a thread to ten pages in a night?

Eirin said:

Where are the scamsters of yore; who could run a bevy of sockpuppets, uphill, in the snow, easily boosting a thread to ten pages in a night?

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I know: I miss them terribly. We could do with a nice, extended bout of ridiculousness here to lighten the long winter nights.

Meanwhile, back to the "agent" (ha!) in question.

My friends who work for HarperCollins in the UK have asked around and, bearing in mind that it's a weekend and not everyone is at work right now and so this information isn't 100% reliable, they can find no evidence that their American counterparts will be publishing a book by Carl Johnson titled Alien Invasion.

Old Hack said:

... they can find no evidence that their American counterparts will be publishing a book by Carl Johnson titled Alien Invasion.

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Well, that's a shocker! Perhaps it's Carl Alien's Johnson Invasion?

Raise your hand if you're surprised.

*looks around*

Wow, no hands.

I think she's one of those people who thinks that disappearing from the webs is easier than it actually is.

Soon to reappear as agent Montgomery Drew, eagerly supported by her client Lulia Jevin.

brianm said:

Well, that's a shocker! Perhaps it's Carl Alien's Johnson Invasion?

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I'm sorry. I keep trying to think of something witty and erudite to say about that, but all I can do is laugh behind my hand and blush to my roots.

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I'm sorry. I keep trying to think of something witty and erudite to say about that, but all I can do is laugh behind my hand and blush to my roots.

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No, I think you're thinking about that old novel from the 60's, "Carl's Alien Johnson Invasion".

It was the one that was sold in the brown paper bag.

Richard White said:

No, I think you're thinking about that old novel from the 60's, "Carl's Alien Johnson Invasion".

It was the one that was sold in the brown paper bag.

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Hyperventillating now. Must breathe... Arrggggh....

Eirin said:

Probably something easily recognizable. She doesn't seem to be big on truly creative sockpuppetry. I mean, turning up to defend yourself under a handle that's already been linked to a former incarnation of yourself? How sadly inept was that.

Where are the scamsters of yore; who could run a bevy of sockpuppets, uphill, in the snow, easily boosting a thread to ten pages in a night?

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You know, I was just thinking that. We can't have eaten them all, can we?

Knock wood. I wasn't complaining. Honest.

Richard White said:

No, I think you're thinking about that old novel from the 60's, "Carl's Alien Johnson Invasion".

It was the one that was sold in the brown paper bag.

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I'm sorry; I'm so pure-minded that I didn't get that joke. Perhaps you could explain it to me?

CaoPaux said:

Y'all be good now, or I'll start posting my collection of dancing ... not bananas.

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I'm being good, it's Richard and MRJ who are confusing everyone.

HapiSofi said:

I'm sorry; I'm so pure-minded that I didn't get that joke. Perhaps you could explain it to me?

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Yes, Richard. Go on. Spell it out. I think you should.

HapiSofi said:

I'm sorry; I'm so pure-minded that I didn't get that joke. Perhaps you could explain it to me?

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*stares suspiciously*

Pure? Who are you, and what have you done with HapiSofi?

HapiSofi said:

Perhaps you could explain it to me?

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Since a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is 24 frames per second, and this video is 31 seconds long, here's a 744,000 word explanation.


Warning: May not be safe for work.

(Depending on where exactly you work, that is.)

HapiSofi said:

I'm sorry; I'm so pure-minded that I didn't get that joke. Perhaps you could explain it to me?

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It's all about galactic censorship and universal moral judgment. The paperbag was to hide the tentacles, of course.

jewelssarah said:

Dear Victoria,

I have no idea what is going on here. I have never been, nor have I ever claimed to be a literary agent. I AM NOT A LITERARY AGENT AND WOULD NEVER IN MY LIFE SAY THAT I AM A LITERARY AGENT. I AM A WRITER. I WRITE BOOKS AND THAT'S ALL I DO AND DREW MONTGOMERY IS MY LITERARY AGENT. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY OUR IP ADDRESSES MATCH OR WHY PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK DREW IS ME OR THAT DREW IS THIS OTHER JULIA. IT'S A MYSTERY TO ME. ALL I KNOW IS THAT DREW IS AN HONEST, HARD WORKING, DEDICATED, AND PROFESSIONAL AGENT WHO IS TRYING TO DO HER JOB DESPITE ALL THIS IDIOCY ABOUT HER NOT BEING WHO SHE SAYS SHE IS. BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. DREW MONTGOMERY IS A GOOD AGENT AND I AM HAPPY TO BE HER CLIENT. PEOPLE SHOULD CARE MORE ABOUT FINDING THE REAL SCAMMERS AND LEAVE GOOD AGENTS LIKE DREW TO THEIR JOB. JULIA LEVIN

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Most authors (and agents, by the way) can pass basic literacy tests.

jewelssarah: (BOLDING MINE)
She sent it out to the publishers (Random House, Simon and Schuster, W.W. Norton, Henry Holt, Tor Books, Little Brown and Company, St. Martin's Press, Weinstein Books, and HarperCollins, and Hyperion)

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Do you know why Sarah sent your book to Tor, given that from your description it does not sound as though it contains any science fiction or fantasy elements and yet that is the type of fiction that Tor usually accepts?

jewelssarah:
I know only one of her recent sales that she is waiting on a contract for. Carl Johnson who wrote a sci fi thriller about ailens taking over the planet and killing all humans. It's called Alien Invasion. Drew sold it to HarperCollins.

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Not to sound churlish but until the contract is signed and delivered, she hasn't really sold that book because Harper Collins is free to change its mind at any time*. Do you know the name of the acquiring editor?

MM

* And I say that on the assumption that she really has been in contact with Harper Collins about that title.

My first day here, but I've been chuckling over this whole Montgomery/Levin/Levine business. I had sent Drew Mnontgomery a querie because, like me, her listed address (available on Everyone/anyone) is in Florida. She responded quickly, asking me to send proposal elements for my novel (I had sent her a querie for a memoir) to her gmail address (now defunct), not to her street address. (bogus, by the way) After Googling her, and finding out about her duplicity, I quickly lost any interest in pursuing her as an agent. But the sheer audacity of her almost child-like attempts at deception made me wonder about the who, what, and why of her folly. I contacted a few of the authors on her client list. None of them had ever heard of anyone named Drew Montgomery. The shared IP address was of course fatal to her argument, but she seemed, in her interplay with people here, not to even understand what it was. The purely fictitious literary agency she claims to have worked for was easily detectable as just that. The years she claims to have been at school overlap with her alleged early agency involvement. Maybe I need a second cup of coffee to understand why I'm fascinated by this charade. Considering all of the above, I don't really believe that her impersonation of a literary agent was a serious one. I somehow can't quite buy that she's even an adult. There was nothing to be gained by her duplicity, other that having some fun at the expense of wannabe writers, who are , by nature, pretty gullible. So, will she resurface under another pseudonym? Is she a sophomore at West Palm Beach High School? Is she, not one person, but a group playing a game? One thing's for sure. She has certainly provided her share of amusement around the water cooler.