Literary agent Berta Treitl seeks fiction and nonfiction

Baseball as a Road to God
by John Sexton,
a client of Grosvenor Literary Agency

Grosvenor Literary Agency

4905 Del Ray Avenue, Suite 507  

Bethesda, MD 20814

http://www.grosvenorlit.com/

The Grosvenor Literary Agency specializes in “strong, serious, interesting nonfiction” and also represents “quality fiction on a selective basis.”

Berta Treitl is an attorney and literary agent and the newest member of the team at Grosvenor. Before joining Grosvenor,   Berta worked at another New York agency and in private legal practice. She is a member of the New York Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts.

Berta is selectively building her nonfiction list in three areas:

- science and technology
- current events, law and politics, biography, business and marketing
- art, design, cooking, health, and lifestyle. 

In fiction, Berta is interested in historical fiction and high-quality mysteries. Berta focuses on projects that present a counter intuitive or fresh viewpoint and that feature unusual communities, travel and foreign locales, and female main characters.

Query Berta at: berta@grosvenorlit.com

For fiction, paste the first three pages of the query into the email. For nonfiction, email a query with evidence that you have a full-length book idea, the credentials to write it, and that there is a market for it. 

Carly Watters

Brian Henry will lead a “How to Get Published” workshop with guest speaker Carly Watters of P.S. Literary agency in Georgetown on October 5. Details here. 

To register, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca

Brian will also be leading “How to Build Your Story” workshops in Kingston on July 20 (here), in Peterborough on July 21 (here), in Woodstock on July 27 (here), in Barrie on Sept 21 (here), and in Sudbury on Sept 22 (here). 

And he’ll be leading “Secrets of Writing a Page-turner” workshop in Bracebridge (in the heart of Muskoka) on August 10 (see here).

To register, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca

But before you submit, the best way to get your manuscript into shape is with a weekly course. In September, Brian will be leading “Welcome to Creative Writing” on Tuesday afternoons in Burlington (see here); “Writing your life & other true stories” on Tuesday evenings in Burlington (here); "Next Step" courses on Thursday afternoons in Mississauga (here) and Thursday evenings in Georgetown (here) and "Intensive" courses on Wednesday afternoons in Burlington (here) and Wednesday evenings in Mississauga (here). 

To register, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca

See Brian's full schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Kingston, Peterborough, Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Georgetown, Milton, Oakville, Burlington, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Dundas, Kitchener, Guelph, London, Woodstock, Orangeville, Newmarket, Barrie, Orillia, Bracebridge, Sudbury, Muskoka, Peel, Halton, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.