New Jersey lit agent Barbara Bauer is mad about being repeatedly called a scam agent on "the blogs"-so she's suing 19 websites and bloggers, including Wikipedia and YouTube bloggers! Believe it or not, there are dishonest and fraudulent literary agents out there in the media jungle. Only they're barely "real" agents and are easy to spot: a scam agent always want money from you up front, or charges a "reading fee." (Real agents work on commission-if they sell your book to a publisher they get 15%; otherwise they eat it.)

Bauer been named one of the "20 Worst Literary Agents" for her alleged fee-charging practices.

So will she sue us for reporting the news of her lawsuit? (We only wish we could locate the YouTube video made about her, titled "Crouching Snark, Hidden Dragon.")

Literary Agent Fights Her Online Critics