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[Agency] Selectric Artists

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Does anyone know anything about this company. It seems to be a one man show from their website

http://www.selectricartists.com/

Run by Christopher Schelling. I found his name from searching for agents of books I read, and was curious if anyone knew anything else about him/the company. I tried looking up but found zilch about them.
 

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I've never heard of them. I hope you find people who know this agency and can better help. It's a good start, but unfortunately, knowing who someone represents doesn't give much insight into his/her practices. There's a very surprisingly long line of stories on querytracker about a specific (respectable) agent who'd spammed editors with their novels (whose genres, the authors said, these publishing houses don't even take on). It was said that some editors don't even open his emails anymore. That's pretty scary if it's true.

Again, I hope you find people who've worked with them first hand. Good luck.
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Does anyone know anything about this company. It seems to be a one man show from their website

http://www.selectricartists.com/

Run by Christopher Schelling. I found his name from searching for agents of books I read, and was curious if anyone knew anything else about him/the company. I tried looking up but found zilch about them.

He wrote me a very nice note two weeks after I submitted a nonfiction proposal, explaining that he didn't have the contacts that he would need to sell it (a collection of letters), and suggesting some publishers who would be receptive. Best rejection I've had in years.
 

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Any updates regarding this agent/agency? I notice he requires a full manuscript with a query, which I thought was unusual. Don't think I've come across that before - or rarely anyway. Any others ask for this upfront?
 
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Any updates regarding this agent/agency? I notice he requires a full manuscript with a query, which I thought was unusual. Don't think I've come across that before - or rarely anyway. Any others ask for this upfront?

It is unusual, eh? But I’ve always wondered why more agents don’t do it, especially with data management systems like querymanager.
 

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Does anyone know anything about this company. It seems to be a one man show from their website

http://www.selectricartists.com/

Run by Christopher Schelling. I found his name from searching for agents of books I read, and was curious if anyone knew anything else about him/the company. I tried looking up but found zilch about them.
IIRC, Chris Schelling used to be a Senior Editor at Dutton and then HarperCollins, and took compassionate leave from the latter when his long time partner died of AIDS. My impression is that he scaled back his activities to reduce stress that could impact his health, and later reentered the business as an agent, and opened Selectricattists in 2011 . In 2103, he married his client Augusten Burroughs.

You can see more about him here: http://www.literaryrambles.com/2013/10/agent-spotlight-christopher-schelling.html

He's hardly the first editor that morphed into an agent, but the others I can think of got laid off by the houses they worked for.
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