The Corn Agency offers some of the following services to writers who are accepted as clients*:
• Representation.
• Boutique-level care, hyper-focus and attention.
• Promotion.
• Management.
• Strategic and tactical career facilitation.
• Orientation.
• Heavy editing.
• Copyright management.
• Access to powerful industry secrets and tricks.
• Re-packaging.
• Literary litigation services on retainer.
• Mediation.
• 17.5% effort for only 15% commission.
• Ghost writing.
• Crisis management.
Other literary agents offer:
• Hard knocks.
• Excuses.
• Wishy-washy approach to dealing with the big boys in New York.
• Can't close deals.
• Won't read your unsolicited manuscripts.
• They will stall your career.
• They steal your ideas and pitch them as their own ideas.
• They don't know what it's like to come from nothing.
• Too focused on popular book trends to focus on you.
• Frown when they read excellent manuscripts.
• 12.5% effort, though they still expect 15% commission.
• Powerless and submissive to New York publishing fat cats.
• Do not accept any genre fiction or erotica.
*List does not serve as an agreement or promise, implied or otherwise, to provide these services to you sight unseen.