Interesting addition to that, Laura Zats had said she'd be reopening to queries after Labor Day, and she was listed as open on QT yesterday, but I have no idea what happens if you actually query her right this moment.
Not as far as I know; they tend to work pretty independantly.
Eric Hane? presumably....
Smith is with P.S. Literary.
Ouch. Will we ever get the full story, I wonder. I'm out of the agent hunt for now, but it could be useful to see where Dawn's politics lie.
This is why business accounts should have no political opinions of any kind, period.
I disagree. Politics informs everything about our lives, including publishing, so I want to know if my agent, or my publisher, values property over people, or the status quo over equality and diversity.
I guess it depends how much value one puts on politics and ethics. But I, for one, am very very glad that my agent will express herself clearly on all kinds of matters. And in the days when I did run a business, I certainly allowed my ethics and politics to have quite a big say in who I dealt with.Which doesn't change the fact that, from a business standpoint, it makes no rational sense to go off on a political tirade on an account attached to your business. Keep your personal views and your business views separate. The landscape is littered with the corpses of careers of people who didn't.
I think this is a personal view of yours, but in the business of writing, and in the Arts generally, I don't think it's a a very common view.
Foz Meadows blogged about about her experiences with Red Sofa and Dawn Frederick: https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/red-sofa/
It's a pretty harrowing read.