Oh, and Ed G … I think you should work on your spelling, grammar and punctuation. Does your agent say the same thing?

I reckognize your right to free speech. and I respect your desire to break into the literaray world, but your approach and pathetic brand of journalism are all wrong.

You call Amy Tipton out for name dropping?

Truth is: “Your bartender’s” (Mad Lib) book sells for $4.95 on Amazon. And you, yourself, are so desperate for readers, you spamBrooklynVegan hoping to attract more dumbass hipsters to your blog.

Amy Tipton a twit?

Amy Tipton is my agent, and her experience, insight, opinion and perseverance are all unrivaled. Her attention to my project never ceases.

I guess it hurts you to know that while you sit around checking the counter on your blog–hoping it breaks 50 someday–Ms. Tipton is relied upon to find great writers and weed out the weaklings, like yourself.

Want 48 of your friends to read your work? Keep blogging.

Want to get published? Stop hating, write something worth reading and keep working on those query letters. Forget about the MFA, you’ve already proved you’re an absolute moron.

Colleen… I see no reason to go into your utter lack of humor as that has already been covered extensively in a previous post. What you perceive as my attempt to “denigrate and demean” women was targetted at agents, not women, and the fact that these agents were women is either coincidence or simply the current trend. If there had been a man on that panel with similar viewpoints I would have found a way to denigrate and demean him. Promise. Your comment that all my pieces suffer the same disease has been duly noted by my therapist.

I applaud your defense of Tipton. It’s nice that anyone would support a friend. Since I don’t know her personally, I can only comment on what she demonstrated in public, which I did. To call it character assassination is either giving me too much credit or giving her too little.

As for your proud lack of anonymity, I can only say that an agent defending another in the same agency is not as commendable as you think. Those who write under a pseudonym generally have a damn good reason for doing so.

What humors me is how close you come to seeing me as I am while entirely missing the point– I work under the pretense of journalism; exactly. Just a pretense. No one in their right mind would call it actual journalism; it falls much more fairly, as you point out, under the category of mindless titillation. BECAUSE, as you also correctly pointed out, we don’t get that many readers, and our singular banner day– 4000 hits, thank you — was my mindlessly titillating piece about a celebrity’s extra-marital affair. My “considerable writing talent” (thank you for the compliment) does not bring in readers. No one in this country cares about good writing. Least of whom literary agents.

Oh, and yes, it IS awful to live inside this head of mine. You have no idea.

Amy Tipton is a valued colleague and a good friend of mine; she’s also a damned talented literary agent and a decent person who did nothing to deserve the ugly rant you’ve written against her here. Nor did any of the women on this panel deserve your ugliness.

What a small, small man.

I feel so sorry for you. It must be awful to live inside that head of yours.

PS: Note that I didn’t mask my name.