When I was at Comic Con this year, I approached the booth for Penguin Publishing. Even though I'm a proud independent publisher, I'd like one of my books to be traditionally published to get my name out there.
I had a book I knew they would be interested in, but the agents were refusing it; some because of blatantly racist reasons; (it portrayed an Italian American as a hero rather than a gangster, with which they openly said they didn't want to take any part.)
I got a manager to speak with and told them the situation, saying I'd like to send them information about this so they could decide for themselves. The manager said she liked the idea, but she stubbornly stayed with company policy. It would have to come through an agent, and therefore they would never take a look.
One of the employees overheard me, and secretly handed me a note with a website. It ultimately didn't help me, but it's a good site for seeing reviews about agents and the like. It's at:
http://pred-ed.com/
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