Exciting times for the Lighthouse Lit Fest. We just confirmed that agent Betsy Lerner will be attending, offering workshops and guidance to our writing community. Here are the details about Betsy. Save the date, everyone! June 6-21.
Betsy Lerner worked as an editor for 16 years at major trade publishers including Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin and finally as Executive Editor at Doubleday. She joined Dunow, Carlson & Lerner as a partner in 2005 after agenting at The Gernert Company for five years. She mostly works with non-fiction writers in the areas of psychology, history, cultural studies, biography, current events, business and the hard to categorize. She also represents fiction; her taste is eclectic, literary, dark, funny, voice driven. Lerner was the recipient of the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is the author of Food & Loathing and The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers.
