Professional what, exactly?
---Professional writer. As in, I earn my living---a good living, mind you---exclusively by writing. (As a staffer and freelancer for publications and research institutions at present; hopefully for books at a future time.)
your refusal to listen to what you're being told.
---Okay, so now this is a matter of me not listening to direct orders being given to me by you? Sorry, I don't recall being at your beck and call, Three Seven. Now who's high and mighty?
You also called someone an idiot by _deliberately_ misquoting me as having called someone an idiot in your above post, and also by _deliberately_ misquoting me as someone who has called someone petty names. The fact that you now acknowledge you were wrong in both instances further illustrates my point.
My mother told me once when I was five that "whenever you point your finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you". I think that is an appropriate observation to make here.
That said, you are certainly welcome to disagree with me on my opinions on TriadaUS. And any writer has the choice to query/not query any agent that they want, or if representation is offered, to sign/not sign with that agent based on their experiences during the submission process. That's fine and dandy. Not every agent is right for every author, and the agent/client relationship is a highly personal one that should be the right "fit" between the two----and as in every kind of relationship out there, not everyone is going to "fit" together perfectly. I just don't think it's appropriate to disparage an agent whose only offense in the whole scheme of things is rejecting someone, or having different opinions on a writer's work from the writer's own opinion about him/her self, or perhaps not being the right "fit" for that author. None of these things merit an agency being "bad". It's not like TriadaUS is a scam agency bilking poor suckers out of money or running a sham vanity press or something. They are a legitimate agency running a legitimate business, and they do have documented sales to royalty-paying publishers within about a year of opening their agency---and therefore are on track to becoming a solid agency in years to come. I challenge anyone to opin otherwise, regardless of whether they would choose to work with this agency themselves.
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