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Normally, you don’t hear much about agents and scandal — they leave that up to the authors, but this week we have two stories. What are the odds? Hmm, now that we think about the number of agents out there, we suspect very high. That’ll teach us to do math. Sarah’s got the scoop on what reads to be a rather bizarre case of an agent pocketing advances and disappearing into the wilds of the Pacific Palisades (those windy streets and cul-de-sacs will fool you every time). Looking into the agency in question, Sarah doesn’t find much to support their

It seems the post-Labor Day doldrums lasted forever — nobody wanted to switch jobs. We suppose it’s hard enough dealing with the inexplicable increase in traffic. No need to add figuring out a new route to the office to the mix. However, there were some org chart changes of note. First, Rebecca Gradinger has moved from the Mary Anne Thompson Agency (no website, but we’re sure that’s just a matter of time) to Janknow & Nesbit (also no website that we can find). Her title is junior agent. We don’t know the protocol here, but we imagine that all it

We will admit that we’re big fans of the split accounting concept. We like that authors get paid in a timely manner (checks do not go to the agent for processing before the author receives a share), and we like that authors get paid in the event something happens to the agent. It’s not personal and doesn’t create additional work for the agent (if anything, it reduces administrative costs…yes, we know, we give, we give, we give). Today’s cautionary tale (aka a memo from the Author’s Guild) reminds us that it is indeed your money, and you should do everything