Pitch Session with Literary Agent Kathleen Anderson

The seven annual San Miguel Writers’ Conference will be offering Pitch Sessions with Literary Agents this year.  These one-on-one sessions will only be available to individuals who register for a “Full Conference Package.”  Each of the four literary agents joining us in February, 2012 (Elise Capron, Andy Ross, Malaga Baldi, Kathleen Anderson) comes from a different background, and we thought it would be nice to introduce each of them individually over the next month.

This week we would like you to meet Kathleen Anderson of Anderson Literary Management LLC, a heavy-hitting agency based in New York, New York.  They represent a wide range of authors, fiction and non-fiction, as well as middle grade and young adult.  Their philosophy is to help writers in various phases of their careers, from placing articles in magazine to publishing.

Kathleen Anderson has been in the publishing business since 1979.  She started out as an editor for W.W. Norton and then moved to Poseidon (formerly a division of Simon & Schuster) where she published and edited work by such writers as Mary Gaitskill and Ursula Hegi.  In 1995 she crossed the fence and became an agent at Scovil Chichak Galen.  Taking the reins into her own hands she started her own literary agency in 2004.

Some of the books and authors Anderson Literary Management has represented includes: Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam (Knopf), Vibes by Amy Ryan (Houghton Mifflin), The Assassins’ Gate, by George Packer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Piers Vitebsky’s The Reindeer People (Houghton Mifflin).

So what are you waiting for?  Seize this rare opportunity to present your book proposal to an agent.  Register for a full conference package before December 1, 2011 and receive a significant discount with our “Early Bard Special.”

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