embezzlement – Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Business Musings: What It Feels Like To Have An Agent

June 6, 2018May 30, 2018Kristine Kathryn Rusch22 Comments

If your agent is stealing from you and still paying some of the money, then you might be making a small boatload and to you it feels like a ton of money. If the agent wasn’t there, you would be making a fleet-of-yachts money. But to most writers, most of whom have been poor, a small boatload is a great deal.

Business Musings: An Agent Nightmare Revealed

May 30, 2018May 30, 2018Kristine Kathryn Rusch50 Comments

The news broke publicly over the holiday weekend. If you blinked, you missed it. The bookkeeper for a prestigious New York literary agency pled guilty to embezzling millions from the agency, leaving the agency “on the brink of bankruptcy.” Donadio & Olson has existed for 49 years. Started by legendary agent Candida Donadio, the agency […]