BJ Robbins opened her Los Angeles-based agency in 1992 after a multi-faceted 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 USA West, Ms. Robbins has led workshops at UCLA Extension, UC Irvine Extension 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 recently profiled in Writer's Digest and mediabistro.com.

The BJ Robbins Literary Agency works with both established and first-time authors and is looking for projects of literary merit that are fresh and original.

J. Maarten Troost (The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Getting Stoned with Savages, Lost on Planet China, Broadway)
Nafisa Haji (The Writing on My Forehead, Morrow)
John Hough, Jr. (The Last Summer, S & S/NAL, Seen the Glory, S&S)
James Donovan (A Terrible Glory, Little, Brown, The Blood of Heroes, Little, Brown, 2011)
James D. Houston (Snow Mountain Passage, Knopf, Bird of Another Heaven, Knopf)
Tim Madigan (The Burning, St. Martin's Press, I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers, Gotham)
Dr. Lisa Masterson (Paper Dollhouse: A Memoir, May 2011, Globe Pequot)
Craig Ferguson (Between the Bridge and the River, Chronicle)
Mel Watkins (Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry, Pantheon)
Wendy Werris (An Alphabetical Life, Da Capo)
Kathryn Jordan (Hot Water, Berkley)
Chris Erskine (Man of the House, Rodale)
Eduardo Santiago (Tomorrow They Will Kiss, Little, Brown)
Roger Love (Set Your Voice Free, Little, Brown; Sing Like the Stars!, Pocket/MTV, Love Your Voice, Hay House)
Renee Swindle (Please Please Please, Dial/Dell)
Pamela Nagami, MD(The Woman with a Worm in her Head, Bitten, St. Martin's Press)
Scott McGaugh (Midway Magic, CDS Books)
LL Cool J,with Karen Hunter (I Make my Own Rules, St. Martin's Press)
Katherine Tarbox (A Girl Goes Online, formerly Katie.com, Dutton)
Laura Catherine Brown (Quickening, Random House/Ballantine)
Karen Brichoux (Coffee & Kung Fu and Separation Anxiety, NAL)
Jerry and Lorin Biederman (Earth Angels, Broadway, and Parent School, M. Evans)
Dave Davies (Kink, Hyperion)
Manny Twofeathers (Road to the Sundance, Hyperion, Stone People Medicine, New World Library)

THE SINATRA CLUB by Sal Polisi and Steve Dougherty (Gallery, 2012)
PAPER DOLLHOUSE: A MEMOIR by Dr. Lisa Masterson (Globe Pequot, May 2011)
THE SWEETNESS OF TEARS by Nafisa Haji (Morrow, June 2011)
SEEN THE GLORY: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg by John Hough, Jr. (S & S)
THE BLOOD OF HEROES by James Donovan (Little, Brown, 2011)
LOST ON PLANET CHINA by J. Maarten Troost (Broadway)
BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER by Craig Ferguson (Chronicle)
I'M PROUD OF YOU by Tim Madigan (Gotham)
HOT WATER by Kathryn Jordan (Berkley)
MAN OF THE HOUSE by Chris Erskine (Rodale)
TOMORROW THEY WILL KISS by Eduardo Santiago (Little, Brown)
BIRD OF ANOTHER HEAVEN by James D. Houston (Knopf)
AN ALPHABETICAL LIFE: Living it Up in the World of Books by Wendy Werris (Da Capo Press)
LOVE YOUR VOICE by Roger Love (Hay House)
STORMS: The Inside Story of Fleetwood Mac by Carol Ann Harris (Chicago Review Press)

TV, film, UK and translation

UK: Abner Stein Agency
Translation: The Marsh Agency

Amy Wilder Drake, associate
amy.bjrobbinsliterary@gmail.com

Amy is looking for YA, middle grade and women's fiction. She accepts queries as per the guidelines outlined below.

Email queries to BJ Robbins at robbinsliterary@gmail.com.
To Amy Drake at amy.bjrobbinsliterary@gmail.com.
No attachments unless solicited.

Please note that we can only respond to email queries for those projects we wish to pursue.

For mailed submissions:

Fiction: cover letter and first 50 or so pages.
Nonfiction: proposal and one or two sample chapters

We prefer to respond by email, so please include email address in your cover letter. We do not return material but will respond by letter if you include SASE.

We do not represent screenplays, plays, poetry, science fiction, horror, westerns, romance, techno-thrillers, religious tracts, dating books or anything with the word "unicorn" in the title.