This spring, agent Brooks Sherman filed a lawsuit against The Bent Agency and ceo Jenny Bent, alleging that they have refused to pay him commissions due. Sherman’s suit, filed in New York County on April 20, says that in April 2021 the agency “repudiated the commission obligation and failed to make a required periodic payment.” The suit estimates the potential future commissions at stake are “valued well in excess of $1.5 million over the next decade.” Sherman left the Bent Agency in 2017, but continued to collect commissions on work by authors including Adam Silvera, Becky Albertalli, and Angie Thomas. […]