I think you're extrapolating a bit. It's only one agent.Pretty sad that these are the gatekeepers so many people work so hard to impress. It's time for a culling. Agents like this don't deserve clients.
I think you're extrapolating a bit. It's only one agent.Pretty sad that these are the gatekeepers so many people work so hard to impress. It's time for a culling. Agents like this don't deserve clients.
Pretty sad that these are the gatekeepers so many people work so hard to impress. It's time for a culling. Agents like this don't deserve clients.
I think you're extrapolating a bit. It's only one agent.
You know you're kinda missing a key point in your desire to be bitter. As Publishers Weekly notes, three agents () quit Red Sofa Literary because of Dawn Frederick's actions: Agents Kelly Van Sant, Amanda Rutter, and Stacey Graham quit.
That says rather more about "gatekeepers" than the actions of their former employer.
You're quite right - sorry. Thank you. It wasn't even one agent; it was one head of agency, and a bunch of her agents AND writers left the agency. So can we not bag out agents for that, was the point I was trying (pre-coffee) to make.I thought it was the owner of that agency?
Exactly. It's hardly "one agent," it's the entire publishing industry. The writer of that article makes it very clear.I think it says worlds that someone as creative & capable as *Foz Meadows* doesn't have an agent in 2020, and doesn't feel welcome in SFF.
Or that Fredericks was *still* playing the 'Of Course We Value Diversity' card in public while making diverse authors feel like stage props.
Yeah, but the article really makes you wonder what else they were complicit with before the straw broke the camel's back.You know you're kinda missing a key point in your desire to be bitter. As Publishers Weekly notes, three agents quit Red Sofa Literary because of Dawn Frederick's actions: Agents Kelly Van Sant, Amanda Rutter, and Stacey Graham quit.
That says rather more about "gatekeepers" than the actions of their former employer.
Yeah, but the article really makes you wonder what else they were complicit with before the straw broke the camel's back.
Exactly. It's hardly "one agent," it's the entire publishing industry. The writer of that article makes it very clear.
Exactly. It's hardly "one agent," it's the entire publishing industry. The writer of that article makes it very clear.
FYI, Dawn sent a C&D letter to several authors demanding that they delete their twitter comments about her tweets.
If Dawn Frederick and her lawyer want to write me one of these half-baked letters that display the legal acumen off a scented candle, Marshall Tanick can DM me for my email address so I can tell him that his client has done a racism and that he can shove it.