A Fine Seven-Day Tempest

[mishalak]

It isn't news to me how "thin" the internet is. Sometimes a single upset person can have a disproportionate and nearly instant effect.

Barbara Bauer is a literary scam artist who preys upon aspiring writers. She got written up by Writer Beware a while back as one of the 20 Worst Literary Agents due to the number of complaints against her and not a single verifiable sale. It got posted around a number of places including a website called Absolute Write. Well she called the ISP hosting Absolute Write, JC-Hosting out of Nashville, and they're such a clueless bunch that on her say so they took down the website for DMCA violations (needless to say, there weren't any).

I'm fairly sure that nearly everyone reading my journal will have seen this before now, so I won't repeat what has been said elsewhere at places like Miss Snark. Suffice it to say that I suspect that most people and websites on the web are somewhat vulnerable to a complaint that sounds legit, so if a person like Barbara Bauer gets annoyed and can lie well enough there goes your website/journal/whatever. Check your ISP's terms of service.

* The Abacus Group Literary Agency
* Allred and Allred Literary Agents (refers clients to "book doctor" Victor West of Pacific Literary Services)
* Barbara Bauer Literary Agency
* Benedict Associates (also d/b/a B.A. Literary Agency)
* Sherwood Broome, Inc.
* Capital Literary Agency (formerly American Literary Agents of Washington, Inc.)
* Desert Rose Literary Agency
* Arthur Fleming Associates
* Finesse Literary Agency (Karen Carr)
* Brock Gannon Literary Agency
* Harris Literary Agency
* The Literary Agency Group, which includes the following:
  -Children's Literary Agency
  -Christian Literary Agency
  -New York Literary Agency
  -Poets Literary Agency
  -The Screenplay Agency
  -Stylus Literary Agency (formerly ST Literary Agency, formerly Sydra-Techniques)
  -Writers Literary & Publishing Services Company (the editing arm of the above-mentioned agencies)
* Martin-McLean Literary Associates
* Mocknick Productions Literary Agency, Inc.
* B.K. Nelson, Inc.
* The Robins Agency (Cris Robins)
* Michele Rooney Literary Agency (also d/b/a Creative Literary Agency, Simply Nonfiction, and Michele Glance Rooney Literary Agency)
* Southeast Literary Agency
* Mark Sullivan Associates
* West Coast Literary Associates (also d/b/a California Literary Services)