Betsy Amster
Literary Agent
Betsy Amster is president of Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises, a literary agency in Los Angeles.
Before opening her agency in 1992, she spent ten years as an editor at Pantheon and Vintage and two years as editorial director of the Globe Pequot Press. She is a frequent instructor at The Loft, the acclaimed literary center in Minneapolis, and has also run publishing workshops at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and UCLA Extension's Writers' Program. In addition, she has been profiled in Poets and Writers, the Los Angeles Times, on the Web del Sol/Algonkian Writer's Workshop website, and in the ASJA Newsletter.
The agency's areas of interest include: Literary fiction, quirky mysteries and thrillers, memoirs, narrative nonfiction, travelogues, social issues, current affairs, psychology, self-help, popular culture, women's issues, history, biography, art & design, business, health and medicine, science and technology, parenting, cooking and nutrition, and gardening.
The agency works with both first-time and established writers and is known for its expert attention to every aspect of the publishing
process.
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