Literary warfare.

[bladespark]

Apparently there is a low-level battle constantly being waged between genuine literary agents and scammers who take your money and your manuscript and don't do anything for you.

Here are some rather fun links relating to this:

P.N. Elrod's livejournal Pat Elrod is one of my favorite writers, though interestingly enough she's a moderately awful blogger, really. At least when compared to folks like Ursula Vernon, anyhow.

Then there's the International Independant Literary Agents Association, who claim to be honest, and upright, and are debunking the myths of modern publishing. (Right. Really. Go read it! It's rather entertaining, in a sad sort of way.)

And just in case you didn't follow the link from Pat, there's Miss Snark, a literaty agent herself, who holds forth on the IILAA.

Since I know a few of my friends are writers with intent to publish, I thought I'd pass all that along.

Comments

[errickfoxy.livejournal.com]

That "myths" bit is pretty sad, yeah. I don't think I'd want to read something written by someone dumb enough to fall for that, anyway.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

The myths are pathetic. Do they really think there is a vast conspiracy against their poor, persecuted agents? Like that is more likely than the warnings being TRUE?