tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post5584865791400018157..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: The Agent From HellEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-33423974471540620062010-04-01T14:57:17.178-07:002010-04-01T14:57:17.178-07:00Ed, I linked this to my Live Journal, hope you don...Ed, I linked this to my Live Journal, hope you don't mind. :)Kenneth Mark Hooverhttp://kennethmarkhoover.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-51526960340447498992010-03-31T20:21:27.328-07:002010-03-31T20:21:27.328-07:00My pleasure, Al. It's all true.My pleasure, Al. It's all true.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-29816239506203208352010-03-31T19:25:13.774-07:002010-03-31T19:25:13.774-07:00I loved Sara Ann Freed, but a first-time author ha...I loved Sara Ann Freed, but a first-time author has every right to bring an agent on board, after a publisher has made an offer. <br /><br />Ed, you're generous to include me in this great memoir of your early writing days.Max Allan Collinshttp://www.maxallancollins.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-70241717438014285322010-03-31T16:22:24.495-07:002010-03-31T16:22:24.495-07:00Absolutely right, Richard. Editors have just as ma...Absolutely right, Richard. Editors have just as many writer stories as we have editor/agent ones. I've edited three small lines of books. One was strictly reprint; that was the easy one. But sometimes the unprofessionalism of writers boggles the the mind. Ridiculous demands; silly charges, My favorite was "Why haven't you sent me my copies? Friends all over the country tell me the book is out and in stores. Why haven't I gotten my copies yet?" I tried to explain that the book wouldn't be published for six months yet, that we didn't even have galleys let alone a finished book, and that whatever book friends were seeing existed only in The Twilight Zone. The next letter said they'd never work with me again. Praise the Lord. Publishers editors writers artists--we all have stories on each other.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-51347422210356260132010-03-31T16:20:46.996-07:002010-03-31T16:20:46.996-07:00Ed, the guy did you a favor calling you up like th...Ed, the guy did you a favor calling you up like that so you'd have a chance to tell him off. <br /><br />Even running a crime fiction web-zine I collected a few true author horror stories. I'd be willing to bet agents (and editors) have a lot more of these stories than authors do!Dave Zeltsermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04007736514118297783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-462437241491726842010-03-31T15:02:18.511-07:002010-03-31T15:02:18.511-07:00My dearly missed friend Sara Ann Freed, who went o...My dearly missed friend Sara Ann Freed, who went on to become a top mystery editor and Warner Books VP, used to tell me Author-from-Hell stories. Here is one: While editing Westerns at Walker and Company she negotiated a first novel from an unagented author, offering standard terms, only to have the author decide, now that he had a publisher interested, to hire an agent and start the negotiations over. That happened to her several times, and blew her fuse each time.Richard S. Wheelernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-15236839073645755592010-03-31T14:38:44.389-07:002010-03-31T14:38:44.389-07:00Right now even an agent from hell sounds good.Right now even an agent from hell sounds good.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.com