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Michael Larsen - Elizabeth Pomada Literary Agents is Northern California's oldest literary agency, helping writers launch careers since 1972.

Members of the Association of Authors' Representatives, Elizabeth, who represents commercial and literary fiction plus narrative non-fiction, and Michael, who handles non-fiction, have sold hundreds of books to more than one hundred publishers. They are also the co-founders of the San Francisco Writers Conference and the Writing for Change Conference. Laurie McLean joined the agency in 2005 to represent adult genre fiction and children's books.

This site is full of helpful information for writers. Feel free to browse and enjoy.

Laurie (and only Laurie) is not taking submissions during the month of December. Please save your queries for her until January 1, 2009. If you do query her in December, you will get a polite auto-response/invitation to resubmit in January.

How to Contact Us

1029 Jones Street
(between California and Pine Streets)
San Francisco, California 94109
(415) 673-0939

By Appointment Only: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday to Thursday, California (Pacific) time

Helping Writers Launch Careers Since 1972

Three ways to make yourself irresisitble to any agent or publisher

1. understand

Understand How Agents and Publishers Work

There's a cartoon that shows an editor sitting across a desk from a man who looks like Charles Dickens, and the editor is saying, "Make up your mind, Mr. Dickens. Was it the best of times or the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both."

For new writers who want to be published by big houses, now is both the best and the most challenging of times... Read More

2. develop

Develop Your Craft

The author Somerset Maugham once said, "There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

Fortunately, we can be more helpful when it comes to developing your craft... Read More

3. commit

Make a commitment to your career.

You are the most important factor in your success, so you must be totally committed to your career. Here's how

Visit San Francisco Writers Conferences at SFWriters.org

Visit WritingForChange.org at www.writingforchange.org