free guaranteed literary agent - Writers Forum

dangermark · 10-30-2005, 09:11 AM

free, no cost AT ALL, new and innovarive way of getting your work seen.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dangermark/freeagent/
not a con or a scheme, exceptionally easy to sign up, no cost you you!

mammamaia · 10-30-2005, 11:48 AM

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We will not give this information to anyone, except publishers, producers & agents. We are working on a new submissions procedure, and possible a scheme where you will be GUARANTEED to be published. This means you will be a globally published writer within a few days of submission of your work. Offer open to all writers of anything, anywhere.

If you submit your details, we will inform you of this scheme and other events relevant to you. Do not contact us about this.

...sorry, but this does sound more than a bit suspicious... you make claims that on their face are unbelievable to anyone with any knowledge of the publishing industry, and then say you'll only explain them after people send in all their info... and, on top of that, you don't want to be contacted about it!?... sounds like a good way to get names and addresses to sell to those who might use them for just about anything...

Mike C · 10-30-2005, 03:32 PM

Uh... here we go.

You claim to know the address, contact details and genre requirements of all those publishers. Wow. I have a writers and Artists Year Book too.

You will represent every book that comes your way, regardless of quality?

Even if you aren't a scamming charlatan, that fact alone means that every publisher on earth will laugh you out of the building - assuming they ever let you in in the first place. Do you not understand that agents exist - in the eyes of the publishing houses - purely to sort wheat from chaff? That agents are not benevolent uncles, but are in the business to make money?

That's how it works. Agents only represent works they think are good enough, because they are the works that will earn them money. Publishers only print works they think are good enough for the same reason. Money.

Now, your site: it looks like a low rent market stall, which seems fitting. Badly coded I can live with. An aesthetic nightmare, less so. And on your free NTL webspace? Do me a favour - that tells me you don't even have enough commitment to your idea to lay out a few quid for a dedicated domain.

And content? You tell us you are a failed writer who, despite having all these contacts in the publishing world, could only get into print via vanity press.

Then you imply that agents/publishers only take on poor writers, and even when they occasionally sign a good writer, they go downhill straight after.

Then you suggest that you may be building a directory of unpublished writers - harvesting names and addresses and email addresses in the process. I hope you understand the Data Protection Act.

Then you finally get closer to the truth. E-books. wow, another e-'publisher'. How is that either new or innovative?

Why not just start out telling the truth?

Julianne · 10-30-2005, 10:16 PM

From the web site in question:

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You are taking part in market research to find out how many unpublished writings there are, which may help the publishing, movie and television industries obtain more quality material in the future.

For this information, publishers, producers and agents will pay us a lot of money. This is where we make our money, not from the writers themselves.

*snort* Oh yeah, publishers will pay someone to tell them how many manuspcripts have not yet hit the slush pile. Right. [/sarcasm off]

mammamaia · 11-01-2005, 09:48 AM

sorry, kids, but publishers, agents, and producers don't pay even a little bit of money for such useless info... they save their spending money for works that are worth publishing/producing, not on finding out how much is out there that isn't... they already know that, from all the merde they get daily, that they have to wade through, to find the occasional potential gem...