What the....?!?

Julie Culver has left Folio -- yes, she's gone.

A check of Folio's website has a very brief note:

Please note:
Julie Culver is no longer working with Folio.
Any issues, questions, or concerns
for Ms. Culver should be directed
to Jeff Kleinman.

Disagreements over agency policy? They aim for a response ASAP, but she never answered the query that I sent, nor did I get a response to the follow-up query.

She's the second agent to call it quits since the agency started up. Wonder if she's taken an editing job? So much less stress, having to deal with no one but one's immediate supervisor and then the editorial board and the marketing people and isn't it actually simpler to be an agent?

PMA, from whence arose Scott Hoffman, has always seemed to have a revolving door when it comes to agents appearing and leaving. As one of the principals of Folio, he may be radiating whatever it is that Peter Miller exudes, sending agents running for the door to get away.

What becomes of Valerie Frankel and Anne Gracie, two authors represented by Ms. Culver? Are they to go off, hat in hand, begging for replacement agents up and down the streets of New York? I'd rather hear that Ms. Culver has gone off on her own, confident in her selling skills and extremely eager to pick up a new client or two, someone like me, for example.

I'll light a candle and say a rosary for the poor woman, praying all the while that she lands on her feet. Please God and all the saints in heaven, let her not be locked away in a sanitarium, her liver pickled and her mind gone completely. And while I'm on the subject, could You see Your way to opening the eyes of the literary agents when my query lands on their desk? Amen.