Surfing the web, I happened to click on a link to Peter Cox's agency, Redhammer, and was directed to a pay-to-join site that he was - or is - associated with. Litopia is some sort of forum for writers, and used to be linked with the webpage for Redhammer.
How very bizarre for the Redhammer Agency's site to morph into Litopia. When Mr. Cox says he does not want any unsolicited queries, he's not kidding. Troubled by people sending him submissions, which the website was set up to accept, he has disappeared into the ether. Does this mean that his agency is no longer in business? He has a page on Publishers Marketplace with his address, but the link to his website goes to Litopia, and it ain't free.
There's more than one way to make a buck (few quid), and charging fledgling writers for one's bon mots may bring in the rent money. It's possible that he has switched gears and gone off into a more prosperous sideline. At any rate, if you missed the Redhammer website when it was up and running, you're too late to see it now. The flying angel that once graced the header must have flown off into the sunset.
UPDATE - March 11, 2006
Have the hackers been at it, or what? Redhammer's website is once again up and running, with the link to submit back in action. Still don't know if Mr. Cox is accepting submissions, or if the submission link goes to some black hole where the letters are sucked in and become anti-matter.
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