a boutique literary agency

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.


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agents at The Corn Agency:
Dallas T. Negroponte Douglas Plane Scottie Upplebottom Jason Thrasher John "Jackie" Corn