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Hey all!
About a year ago, my former literary agency and I parted ways less than amicably after a breach of contract on my former agents contracts. I'll spare too many details, but it involved eight co-authors and I needing an Authors' Guild attorney to step in to even get the agency head to respond to letters of termination and to release our work. Part of the agreement at the time was to wipe us all off the website, especially since the agency never sold any of our work (except for one person).
Now that I'm back on the query and submissions trail, this has become a great nuisance to discover that I'm still 'currently represented' on the agency's website. I've had two agents so far question that I'm still represented by my former agency (implying that I'm going behind my former agent's back), and I've had one editor mistakenly contact the agency in order to reach me. Emails to the agency continue to be ignored.
A disclaimer on my website has helped to some degree in curbing some of these issues, but the problem remains--how do I get rid of this nightmare of a literary agency for good, and move on with my career?
About a year ago, my former literary agency and I parted ways less than amicably after a breach of contract on my former agents contracts. I'll spare too many details, but it involved eight co-authors and I needing an Authors' Guild attorney to step in to even get the agency head to respond to letters of termination and to release our work. Part of the agreement at the time was to wipe us all off the website, especially since the agency never sold any of our work (except for one person).
Now that I'm back on the query and submissions trail, this has become a great nuisance to discover that I'm still 'currently represented' on the agency's website. I've had two agents so far question that I'm still represented by my former agency (implying that I'm going behind my former agent's back), and I've had one editor mistakenly contact the agency in order to reach me. Emails to the agency continue to be ignored.
A disclaimer on my website has helped to some degree in curbing some of these issues, but the problem remains--how do I get rid of this nightmare of a literary agency for good, and move on with my career?