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245 Park Avenue, 39th Floor
New York City, NY 10167
Website: www.jdlit.com/
Twitter: brelstephens
AAR/AALA Member: No
Snail-Mail: Closed
E-Mail: Closed
Online Form: Closed
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Has burner accounts talking shit about her under her tweets. Can't tell if they're from authors she wronged, members of JDCL, or a combination of both. In any instance, this is quickly becoming a sad carnival.
Further Edit: She's leaving agenting.
https://twitter.com/BreLStephens/status/1497569964529696778 & https://twitter.com/BreLStephens/status/1497576150452912129
"I've been talking with industry professionals, authors, friends, & family & have come to the decision to step away from agenting. Clients deserve an agent with a good reputation & right now I'm viewed poorly. I need to change that, rebuild trust. Agenting is not the way to do it. With all of that said... I now leave agenting behind."
This seems pretty shady. She still had a large list of clients that, although dropped by JDCL, could have been brought with her to another agency. If she wants to rebuild trust, this is NOT the way to do it.
"Ok since I’m getting too many pms, I’ll explain exactly what happened. Take it as a lesson or a warning. My self and 9 other authors were picked up by
@JDLitAgency last year. Our agent was lovely and all was great. We had one group meeting and nothing one on one for three months. Some of us haven’t even gotten the countersigned contract till few days ago. Understandably our agent had issues at home but few of the authors understandably yet once again expected a more professional experience. Tempers were flaring so I’ve suggested a mediation. It was a friendly, “hey…see you running workshops but our emails are going unanswered? Can we sort something out? Another author went directly to the agency and ask if there is a possibility of a transfer. Not a huge ask. Then yesterday we just get a group email saying that Jennifer, the president, stood our agent down for three months and dumped her entire client list. No official email, no talking. Just the most unprofessional kick up the ass. So yes, months wasted. We got no referrals, nothing. A possibility to re-query in three months was an option?
I’ve approached other agents days prior to mediations for an opinion and most were horrified by the wait. Still, we were willing to wait again to avoid querying process. But alas I think we feel what our value was."
May want to reconsider this agency.
Closed No Response: 11/30/2021
Genre: Fantasy (F)
Wordcount: 90,000 - 99,999
full request 7/26/21 - sent same day
call requested 10/30/21, scheduled for same day
Offer of rep! 10/30/21. Decision due by Nov 8.
11/8 offer accepted!
90k ya fantasy
Nudge August 26th, 2021
Closed No Response September 9th, 2021
Adult Fantasy 160k
Nudge: 8/28/2021
CNR: 9/6/21
YA Contemporary 87,000
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