Welcome to the Former McGill Literary Agency

The best way to contact Bryant is now through the following, which makes it *much easier to keep track of names, faces* and submissions. Please add yourself and send your query messages there.

Even if your book is not finished, we may want to interview you on our radio show. You can find out about the program here. You can inquire about the possibility of being a guest on our Facebook accounts above by sending a guest request message.

http://www.mcgillbroadcast.com/
http://www.bryantmcgill.com/

Say hello if you are a positive entity. :-)

Since 1997 we have specialized in manuscript placement, including publishing venues such as print, motion picture, television, and electronic media formats. As of Feb 2009 we are no longer representing manuscripts.

Let us tell you why. Bryant has basically been using his personal contacts with some of the biggest producers, agents and literary giants to hand-off special manuscripts he believed in when he encountered them. When we say personal contacts we mean his friends he parties, socializes and does business with when he travels. Over the years this has resulted in a few book deals with major publishing houses, such as Harper Collins and other deals in the media and film world. Now what people do not know is he has only been doing this as a good Samaritan service for projects he saw and believed in, and has never taken a fee -- ever; it was a form of volunteerism. This has always been an effort to make a positive use of his contacts in the lives of others.

Bryant and his friends have PERSONALLY called in favors and put people in top media and networking opportunities. They have-personally put people on the cover of major papers, on the biggest radio shows, on TV, in movies, in front of publishers and celebrities. They have personally worked and *succeeded* in putting people they encountered and liked, on The Tonight Show, The Ellen Show, Howard Stern, Montel, Rosie, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, in major motion pictures, on NBC, ABC, CBS and in front of 20, 40 and 60 million people to promote their projects. These are just a few of the things they have done. Some agencies charge $10-$20 thousand dollars just for a booking on one of the popular daytime shows. Do you know how much they charged? Nothing. Not a dime - EVER. They did it because they believe in people.

Now, astonishingly, we receive between five and 20 thousand submission queries each year, and do not even get a chance to read them all. We read the messages that catch our attention.

We can't tell you how any times we have thrown an otherwise interesting proposal in the trash because the person submitting it was rude, crass, pushy, disrespectful and therefor, totally unqualified for any success. These people have no idea who could have had their materials had they just been polite, such as billionaires, top industry producers in Hollywood, celebrities, best-selling authors and publishing giants that Bryant interacts with on a social basis.

You would not believe the emails we receive. It is simply tragic. People who should know better threatening to sue because the responses take too long, (You try to read 20 Thousand Proposals a Year - Do the Math) and other gross, hostile, demanding, paranoid fits of selfishness. When people receive the auto-reply telling them it could take up to a year for a response, countless people reply to the effect of, "Well F%$K it, why should I even bother. And you people ...." Seriously, this happens all the time. Of course, we just think, thank you for revealing your true nature as we hit delete.

So, it is great pleasure that we close down this operation. Bryant will of course still be working daily to help friends and deserving people where he can through a life of service, but will no longer be personally getting behind any proposals. For those of you who do not know, this world runs on respect. Every person we helped had one thing in common; they were all good-hearted, polite people. That is the only definning difference between success and failure in our eyes.

Since the following email address still gets flooded with messages, we will be forwarding the messages to a number of decent publishers who have requested we send them the submissions. Feel free to send them on since they will at least be reaching some good contacts. As of now the messages will be forwarded to eight traditional publishers, two university presses, and two agents. We are also selling www.LiteraryAgency.us

If your book has anything to do with positive energy, love, healing, transformation or self-help please put 'POSITIVE' in the subject, since these will be going to a special contact who works with this type of material.

http://facebook.com/bryantmcgill

If you are an author, published or not, and you have something positive to share with the world that will help people, or have something interesting you would like to talk about, then you may want to APPLY to be a guest on our radio program. Lucky selected guests may be on our new syndication going out to 11 million homes via satellite, AM, FM, Dish Network, Direct TV and Comcast.

Our radio show web address is:
http://www. bryantmcgill.com/radio/

Please send your guest request with photos, biography, book information and topic summary (optional CV) to:
http://facebook.com/bryantmcgill

Bryant's main sites are:

http://www.bryantmcgill.com/
http://www.mcgillradio.com/