As some of you may know I have written a book. I got an agent, got a publisher and everything was looking good. My books was scheduled to come out in October (I guess it still might.)
A few weeks ago I find out that my agent has been arrested and the agency she co-owns with a few other agents has been raided and is under investigation. It tuns out they were defrauding people. To make a long story short when people would submit a manuscript if they decided that they didn't want to represent that person/book instead of outright rejecting it (as every agent normally would) they would tell them if they paid to have the book edited through a particular editing company (that they own) they would then sign and represent them. So people paid a lot of money for these editing services (sometimes 5-10K per manuscript) and then the agency still didn't sign them.
A few people got angry and reported this and an investigation started. Luckily, I have nothing to do with that. I never paid for any services, they just signed me after reading my rough draft. However, this now means I need to get a new agent and my book is in turn around because the current under-investigation agent is in the contract.
So two weeks ago everything was great, now I need a new agent, the book may be pushed back to next year some time and I've been freaking out.
It sucks. I haven't been able to concentrate on much of anything the last few weeks and have just been moping around pissed off.
The good news is my girlfriend just told me she is taking me to dinner to get me out of the house and that she bought some hot new panties that she thinks I will enjoy. I guess some things are looking up.
