Barbara Bauer
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Barbara Mangano Bauer is a literary agent and cabaret singer who lives in New Jersey. Bauer received her baccalaureate degree in English and Music from Hunter College.[1] She received her masters from St. John's University in 1971.[2] She earned her doctorate from the same institution in 1979, with a dissertation entitled Cautela, D'Angelo, D'Agostino and Di Donato: the achievement of first and second generation Italian-American writers of the New York region.[3]Bauer has worked as a cabaret singer and actress on a number of occasions over the past decade in the New York City area, and has also appeared on various audio recordings in that time.[1]She is a member of Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs.[1]
[edit] Literary Agency
In 1984, Bauer founded the Barbara Bauer Literary Agency, in Matawan, NJ. The agency offers its clients consulting services, workshops, and guest-speaker searches,[4] and hosts a podcast featuring the agency's authors.[5]
In 2006, due to the number of complaints they receive, Writer Beware (part of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America writers' organisation) listed Bauer's agency as one of the twenty worst literary agencies.[6] The list is introduced with the following explanation:
None of these agencies has a significant track record of sales to commercial (advance-paying) publishers, and most have virtually no documented and verified sales at all (book placements claimed by some of these agencies turn out to be "sales" to vanity publishers). All charge clients before a sale is made—whether directly, by levying fees such as reading or administrative fees, or indirectly, for editing or other adjunct services.
– Writer Beware
According to Writer Beware, Bauer charges annual fees for representation ranging between $650 and $1000, and they cannot find any recent evidence of sales to mainstream publishers.[7] They also claim that Bauer made a number of legal threats in order to suppress discussion of her business's activities, especially on web sites, and to have made complaints to the employers of some of those who published information about her on personal web sites.[8][9] They claim that this action caused the popular website, Absolute Write, to lose its Internet hosting service in May, 2006.
In March[10], 2007, Bauer filed a suit in the Superior Court of Monmouth, New Jersey, with 17 named defendants including operators of the Absolute Write web site, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the individual authors of the 20 Worst Agents List, and the Wikimedia Foundation.[11]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Barbara Mangano. HollywoodAuditions.com (2000). Retrieved on 2006-06-30.
- ^ In the News. St. John's University. Retrieved on 2006-06-30.
- ^ RERO no 1440589 (French). Union catalogue. RERO. Retrieved on 2006-06-30.
- ^ ABOUT US. Barbara Bauer Literary Agency, Inc.. Retrieved on 2006-06-30.
- ^ AWOL - Authors WithOut Limits. Barbara Bauer Literary Agency, Inc.. Retrieved on 2006-07-01.
- ^ Strauss, Victoria; A.C. Crispin (2006). WRITER BEWARE'S 20 WORST AGENCIES LIST. Writer Beware. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Retrieved on 2006-06-30.
- ^ Strauss, Victoria (2006). The IILAA, or, What You Do When They Won't Let You Into the Club. Writer Beware Blog. Retrieved on 2007-04-01.
- ^ Strauss, Victoria. The Barbara Bauer Show. Writer Beware Blog.
- ^ Nielsen Hayden, Teresa. Barbara Bauer take action! (*yawn*). Making Light.
- ^ SFWA named in lawsuit. Retrieved on 2007-04-01.
- ^ Docket Number L-001169-07 in Monmouth. Bauer et al vs Glatzer et al; list of defendants available via web search form
