BJ Robbins

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 authors in a multitude of categories, including literary and general fiction, select genre fiction (mystery, suspense/thriller, historical, horror), sophisticated young adult fiction, and nonfiction with commercial appeal, including biography, memoir, history, health, science, and pop culture A member of AALA and PEN, Ms. Robbins has taught or led workshops at UCLA Extension, UC Irvine Extension, the Writer's Pad, and at the Community of Writers Fiction Workshop and the UCR Palm Desert Low Residency MFA program. She was profiled in Writer's Digest and mediabistro.com.