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Betsy Amster

About Betsy

Before opening the agency, principal Betsy Amster spent ten years as an editor at Pantheon and Vintage and two years as editorial director of the Globe Pequot Press. She has been described in the Los Angeles Times as “a dogged prospector of…literary talent” and celebrated in a profile in the American Society of Journalists and Authors newsletter for her “no-nonsense style and whimsical sense of humor.” She frequently speaks in PEN USA’s Emerging Voices Program and Portland State’s Publishing Program, teaches classes on publishing at UCLA Extension’s Writers Program and The Loft, and moderates panels at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

Query Instructions

Queries for adult titles should be addressed to b.amster.assistant@gmail.com. For fiction or narrative nonfiction, please embed the first three pages of your manuscript in the body of your e-mail. For other kinds of nonfiction, please embed the overview of your proposal.

Queries for children’s and YA titles should be addressed to b.amster.kidsbooks@gmail.com. For picture books, please embed the entire text in the body of your e-mail.  For novels or literary nonfiction, please embed the first three pages.

Please remember that romances, screenplays, westerns, poetry and fantasy (except for children’s and YA), horror, science fiction, techno thrillers, spy capers, apocalyptic scenarios, political and religious arguments, and self-published books are not our cup of tea.

We do not open attachments unless we have requested them.  Nor do we respond to phone queries. Please understand that owing to the number of queries we receive, we are able to respond only to those that interest us.

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607 Foothill Blvd.
#1061
La Canada Flintridge, CA 91012

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