Welcome to episode #64!
BJ Robbins opened her Los Angeles-based agency in 1992 after a multifaceted career in book publishing in NY. She started in publicity at Simon & Schuster and was later Marketing Director and then Senior Editor at Harcourt. Her agency represents quality fiction, both literary and commercial, and general nonfiction, with a particular interest in memoir, biography, narrative history, pop culture, sports, travel/adventure, medicine and health.
A member of AAR and PEN America, Ms. Robbins has led workshops
at UCLA Extension, UC Irvine Extension, the Writer's Pad, and at the Squaw Valley
Community of Writers Fiction Workshop. On behalf of PEN, she has been guest
speaker in numerous cities in the West as part of their Writers Toolbox
program, including Seattle, Portland, Santa Fe, Dallas, Las Cruces, Flagstaff
and Oakland. She was profiled in Writer's Digest and mediabistro.com.