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- Jonathan Lyons
- Jonathan Lyons is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., where represents a select list of authors of biographies, history, science, pop culture, sports, general narrative non-fiction, mysteries, thrillers, science fiction and fantasy, and young adult fiction, in addition to serving as subagent in the United States for several agencies in the UK. Having previously run translation rights at McIntosh & Otis and Folio Literary Management, Jonathan currently oversees Curtis Brown’s translation rights department. Jonathan is also a licensed publishing attorney with the boutique entertainment law firm Savur & Pellecchia, a member of The Authors Guild, and a member of the Contracts Committee of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc.
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8 comments:
I'll assume, no one has to mention Publish America... beyond that I think I'll just watch.
Ohhhh, let's start with the New York Literary Agency and all its suburbs: The Children's Literary Agency, the Christian Literary Agency, the Poets' Literary Agency and the Screenplay Agency.
All the websites bear a suspiciously similar look--as if there were a template somewhere and someone was ginning them out at random.
Victoria Strauss went after them a couple of years ago, and the New York Literary Agency made the top ten list of the worst agencies.
I think any website that charges a fee for information about agents, when such information is readily available for free through other websites, should go on the list. For example, while Publishers Marketplace charges a fee, it provides information that can't be obtained anywhere else. In contrast, www.firstwriter.com does not provide any information that can't be obtained on Agent Query or other sites. In addition, they allow writers to make negative comments based on inaccurate information about agents and industry custom.
Jonathan: That has always been my problem with Piers Anthony's website. He often printed a negative comment by ONE person--without any way of knowing if that comment was valid and without making any effort to verify the accuracy before printing it. That felt reckless to me.
I have a huge problem with that kind of thing because it permits a malicious person to smear a publisher without consequence (Anthony kept the identity of the commenter confidential).
I noticed that's he's been bitten a few times and is now more cautious. I still think it is VERY unfair to print one side of the story without giving the publisher a chance to rebut.
Well, I hate to do this because his ire can be so harsh, but I guess I have to.
Gerald Jones has a website called Everyonewhosanyone.com. On it he's posted his queries to agents and their replies. While I think there are a number of valuable things about this website, the problem is that Jones has developed a reputation among some agents of someone to avoid (you'll see why when you scroll through some of the correspondence). Therefore, some of the responses he's gotten from agents aren't representative of what such agents might typically say or do.
I think he's semi-retired the site since he secured a book deal.
I remember Gerald's site. It was like getting sucked into some kind of vortex. But it was entertaining, to say the least. I'm glad his book finally found a home.
I'm not sure how it happened, but Gerald added me to his email list.
It was very entertaining in a "slow down to watch the car wreck" kind of way.
And a postscript to your comment, Jonathan, about Publishers Marketplace. I subscribed to it about two years ago, intending to cancel the subscription when I found an agent.
I've had an agent for 18 months now, but am still subscribing to PM because the information obtained there is so invaluable.
1. Publish America
Supposedly a "traditional" publisher that's actually just a crappy printer (and forces you and your family to buy your books).
2. What someone else said: Writers Literary Agency & Marketing Company (at least, that's the name it's going by at the moment; it was Writers Literary Agency, before that, Stylus Literary, before that...oh, you get the drift ;-)).
And its "children":
Christian Literary Agency
Poets Literary Agency
Childrens Literary Agency
New York Literary Agency
The Screenplay Agency
Came over from Nathans Bransford's blog. Thanks for deciding to do something like this. The more people know about these crooks, the better! :-)
~jerseygirl
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