Locus is reporting that the two agents who left the Ralph Vicinanza Literary Agency (see this article are Chris Lotts and Christopher Schelling. They left to open their own agencies.
According to Locus, the Lotts Agency will “continue to represent commercial fiction and targeted upmarket non-fiction in a mix of domestic and foreign rights, working on behalf of Stephen King, Robert Silverberg, George R.R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Connie Willis, Robert J. Sawyer, and R. Scott Bakker among many others.”
Schelling will be calling his agency Selectric Artists, and will continue to represent authors including Augusten Burroughs, Cinda Williams Chima, John Elder Robison, Louis Bayard, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Haven Kimmel, while also “expanding his representation into other media.”
Lotts is not currently seeking new authors, but he can be reached at chris at lottsagency dot com. Schelling’s new eddress is christopher at selectricartists dot com.