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Articles	Recommended Reading
About Fee-Charging Agents The Dubious Agents List How to Query by Email Comments about Good/ Bad Agents A few words about Edit, Inc. . . . And in a category by themselves, the scamsters Woodside Abuse of Usenet Read about Woodside Agency and it's scams Woodside Agency and it's scams in an article by Jack Mingo J.A. Hitchcock's pages on Woody	1997 Guide to Literary Agents (Annual) AU: Donald M. Prues (Editor) PUB: Writer's Digest Books PUB DATE: 01/97 ISBN: 0898797667 Literary Agents : A Writer's Guide AU: Adam Begley PUB: Penguin Books Inc PUB DATE: 05/93 ISBN: 0140172157 Literary Agents : What They Do, How They Do It, and How to Find and Work With the Right One for You (Wiley Books for Writers Series) AU: Michael Larsen PUB: WILYv PUB DATE: 08/96 ISBN: 047113046X Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents,1997-1998 AU: Jeff Herman & Jamie Forbes (Editors) PUB: Prima PUB DATE: 10/96 ISBN: 0761505083
On-Line Directories	Associations
The Internet Directory of Literary Agents From Writer'sNet. It's a full featured site with discussions and writing assignments.	Association of Author's Representatives 10 Astor Place 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 Always check with these people before signing a contract. It can be difficult to get through to them, but hang in there.

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Abbey House

Abecassis, Andree

Ann Elmo Agency, Inc

Email: aalitagent@eworld.com

accepts electronic queries
accepting new clients
represents: fiction, non-fiction, romance

Ahearn, Pamela

The Ahearn Agency

Email: Pahearn@aol.com

accepts electronic queries
is accepting clients, very selectively
represents: Romance, mystreries, mainstream, thrillers, horror, some NF

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Atchity, Kenneth

Atchity Editorial/ Entertainment Literary Management

Email: aeikja@lainet.com

Home Pages: AEI

accepts electronic queries
is accepting new clients
represents: all nonfiction, mainstream fiction with a tv/ film potential

Bearlife Women's Writing Advocate

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Cris J. Baker-Robins

Robins & Associates owner of New Writers' Publishing

Email: cjrobins@centuryinternet

Home Pages: http://members.tripod.com/~TheWriter/new.html

email queries accepted? Preferred. Guidelines: submit a brief cover letter/bio, an outline with approx. word count, and the first FIVE pages of the actual work. Will review and respond within about 5 business days -- sometimes sooner, rarely later.
accepting new clients? Yes. We work almost exclusively with new writers or writers who are unhappy with their current representation.
represents: Sci-fi/fantasy, mainstream fiction, children's work, various
NOT ACCEPTING: poetry or grandma's stories

Bykofsky, Sheree

Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc.

Email: ShereeBee@aol.com

Accepts brief queroies about queries, prefers snail mail
accepting new clients
represents: Adult fiction and Non-fiction only
no children's, category romance, science fiction, westerns, screenplays

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Curtis, Richard

Richard Curtis Agency

Fugate, David

Waterside Productions, Inc.

Home Pages: Waterside

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Graham Literary Agency

Email: slgraham@mindspring.com

Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy, Mainstream Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense, Computer Software, Computers, Entertainment/Games, General Nonfiction, Government/Politics, Internet, Nature and Environment, CD-ROMs, VR

Heacock, Rosalie

Heacock Literary Agency, Inc.

Email: Gracebooks@aol.com

accepts electronic queries
is accepting new clients
represents: general trade nonfiction and fiction

Ivan Hoffman

Attorney at Law

http://home.earthlink.net/~ivanlove/
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Knappmann, Elizabeth Frost

New England Publishing Associates, Inc.

Email: NEPA@NEPA.COM

accepts electronic queries and submissions
accepting new clients
represents: reference and information books, word books, history and biographies, general trade non-fiction, no fiction or juvenile

The Knight Agency, Inc.

Literary Representation and Marketing

The Nordhaus-Wolcott Literary Agency

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The Osgood Literary Agency

Otitus Media Literary Agency

movies/TV movies/mini series, episodes of TV series', action/adventure , romantic comedy, satire, historical/period, horror, fantasy, mystery, espionage, political, international, coffee table

QCorp Literary Agency

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