Author: Virgil Allen Wulff
Date:   03-17-03 14:16

Greetings:

I would greatly appreciate any comments/critiques on www.SterlingHousePublisher.com.

Thank You,
Virgil Allen Wulff
wuf@msn.com
www.VirgilAllenWulff.com

Author: Gary Kessler
Date:   03-17-03 14:58

The listing by the watchdog website Preditors & Editors is quite succinct: "A wholly owned subsidy press belonging to Cynthia Sterling. Not recommended."

Author: A.C. Crispin
Date:   03-17-03 15:10

Sterling House is not a commercial publisher, it is an expensive vanity press, owned by Cynthia Sterling, who also owns Lee Shore Literary Agency.

Cynthia frequently "sells" her clients' work to her own vanity press, a clear conflict of interest. Agents should not own publishing houses, and vice versa.

Sterling House books are never carried in bookstores. Check any ten, you'll find out I'm right.

I've heard of people paying Sterling House 10-20 thousand dollars to get several hundred copies of their book...that they can then store in their garage.

Do you need to know more? Writer Beware has received many dozens of complaints about this vanity press and its integral literary agency over the years. I could go on and on.

-Ann C. Crispin
Writer Beware
www.sfwa.org/beware

Author: Kea Dodson
Date:   04-04-03 11:33

Another place you might want to check on shady agents is www.agentresearch.com. They are a company that researches literary agents and angencies. They do have a free service where you can get a general synopsis of whether an agent or agency is shady or not. I have found it a great help. The site did list Lee Shore Agency as not having a records of any sales and that they have had complaints from writers but you can check it out yourself.

I hope this helps