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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-07-01 12:57:00


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Entry tags:burning with rage, defensiveness ahoy, internet lawyers, making light, my reputation takes visa, squid brains

LITERARY AGENT SUES THE INTERNET FOR BEING MEAN TO HER. NEWS AT 11.
It all started with a list - a list of questionable literary agencies and agents. Unfortunately, someone named Barbara Bauer was on this list. This made her very, very, very, very unhappy. (So unhappy, in fact, she demanded A BILLION DOLLARS from several bloggers for her pain and suffering.) Why, oh why won't they fork over the dough? And why are they laughing? What's a poor, maligned literary agent to do? SUE WIKIPEDIA AND THE BLOGOSPHERE!, that's what. Hmmph. That'll show 'em!


Oops...DISMISSED! Wikipedia, you bastard!

(SRS BZNS ETA: I've received some additional info about the court cases that are still pending, which can be found here)



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[info]ladyindigo
2008-07-03 11:34 am UTC (link)
The self-help covers in particular have the look of the early 90s about them...

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[info]jupiterpluvius
2008-07-03 06:02 pm UTC (link)
She seems to have actually done some agenting back in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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[info]ladyindigo
2008-07-03 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Ahh. Well, she's a convincing-looking scam artist, then. :)

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