Full Agent Profile: Elizabeth Pomada

Elizabeth Pomada

Biography | Food & Lifestyle | Drama/Music | Cookbooks | Memoirs | Travel | Art | Women's Issues | Narrative

• She handles literary and commercial fiction, romance, thrillers, mysteries and mainstream women's novels
  
• Her nonfiction interests include books for women, travel, food, the arts, and narrative nonfiction, including memoirs and biographies
  
• Very interested in France, traveling and writing about it

• Currently, she is not accepting genre fiction submissions or YA, middle grade, or children's fiction
  

• http://www.larsenpomada.com/elizabeth-pomada/
• Please note: Elizabeth cannot take the time to read a full manuscript if other agents are reading it. That’s why she asks for complete manuscripts, on an exclusive basis, when she is interested in a project.

• Agency Co-Founder Elizabeth Pomada worked at David McKay, Holt Rinehart & Winston, and the Dial Press in New York City before moving to San Francisco in 1970 with her partner and husband, Michael Larsen. Together, they started Michael Larsen – Elizabeth Pomada Literary Agents in 1972.
• Since then, they have sold books from hundreds of authors to more than 100 publishers. Elizabeth is a member of the Association of Author’s Representatives, The Author’s Guild, ASJA, WNBA and co-founder with Michael of the San Francisco Writers Conference and the Writing for Change conference.
• The agency’s client list over the past 35 years has included bestselling authors such as:
• * Cherie Carter-Scott, If Life is a Game, These are the rules, a #1 New York Times bestseller
• * Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, the film version of which was recently released as The Peaceful Warrior.
• * Cynthia Freeman, A World Full of Strangers
• * Karen Lustgarten, The Complete Guide to Disco Dancing
• * Katherine Kerr, author of the fifteen-volume Deverry series, who has been called “Tolkein’s heir”