I looked through the big ST Literary/Stylus Literary thread for names of clients and titles of books that ST/Stylus/The Literary Agency Group claims to have sold.
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Denise Becker Shades of Brown Genesis Press
The author sold this book herself.
William Powell The Road to Hebron The Lighthouse Press
Not listed at Amazon.com, not listed at bn.com, no used copies at bookfinder.com, only Google hits are to the thread at AW. No evidence this book was ever printed. The Lighthouse Press is a microscopic local press located five miles from Boca Raton.
Paul Anderson The future of Customer Service Doyle Printing & Press
Self or vanity published before Fletcher took over ST.
Pastor Billy Crone A Marriage Built to Last Mapletree
A startup LDS publisher, may not pay an advance. I don't know if Pastor Billy sold the book himself or not.
Victor Stenger Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From Prometheus Books
Stenger has been selling physics books to Prometheus on a regular basis since 1988. I don't know how ST was involved in this sale.
Dario Castagno Too Much Tuscan Sun Globe Pequot
The author sold the book himself.
Clients who gave testimonials (4/7/04):
As of April a year ago, Mr. Sears claimed he hadn't sold anything (though he did give ST a testimonial). No one named Michael Sears appears to have a book published or scheduled since then.
Rev. Snow vanity-published a book with Trafford in 2002. Nothing since.
Carl Bell is a common name. As of April '04 (according to Fletcher's letter) Bell hadn't yet sold a book. I am unable to find any books by a Carl Bell published after April '04 except where the auhor had previously published. The only Carl Bell whose works didn't include some that predate ST's foundation brought out his works through 1st Books Library (a vanity POD) in 2003.
No one named Gary Dover is listed as a screenwriter at imdb.com.
Clients listed at ST's website:
Short stories to the Chicken Soup books (no agent needed). All her other works are vanity POD or non-advance-paying e-books, or predate ST's founding.
Appeared at Writers.net and Speculations.com to defend ST, and claimed to be clients:
Jackson Compton (5/18/04)
Melvin Wilson
Stratton Jones
No apparent sales.
Identified at "leading clients":
Paul Anderson, Denise Becker, Michele Campanelli...
See above.
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Georgina Orr claims that The Literary Agency Group has four "deals," of which the authors made two.
The only four that could fit are:
Denise Becker
Dario Castagno
Pastor Billy Crone
Victor Stenger
We know that Denise Becker and Dario Castagno sold their own books. Therefore, Pastor Billy Crone's book and Victor Stenger's book must be the ones that LAG's claiming for their own.
A sale to a startup that doesn't pay an advance and doesn't require an agent, and a sale in a continuing series that predates ST's creation by a decade. I find both of those very hard to believe as credits to LAG.
So, how about it, Robert Fletcher, Georgina Orr, or anyone else from ST/Stylus/Literary Agency Group? Are those the books you're claiming you sold? Give us some titles, authors, publishers, and dates.
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