When I set out to learn about my mother's bridge club, the Jewish octogenarians behind the matching outfits and accessories, I never expected to fall in love with them. This is the story of the ladies, their game, their gen, and the ragged path that led me back to my mother.
What I like about agenting is that it’s a three ring circus. Just as you sign a new client, or sell a new project, another client delivers a book, you go to a publicity and marketing meeting, or you get out your red shoes and go to a reading or party for a book just published. You’re there for the birth and baptism, the prom and wedding, the break-up and divorce, the death rattle and death. In my heart of hearts, I’m still an editor. I wonder if I would have lasted or gotten bumped like so many others on editorial row. I preferred being an editor because you’re closer to the whole gestalt of the book from editing to jacket to publishing plans. And I liked being part of a publishing team.Though I was also part of some pretty viscous teams. LOL. People trust editors. Agents not so much.
Are you an agent or an editor? A Jet or a Shark?
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Betsy Lerner 
“Are you an agent or an editor? A Jet or a Shark?”
None of the above. I am a semi-rigid airship, a coelacanth of the deep.
Editor. So much an editor. My red shoes are sneakers.
I trust my agent, and I trust you Betsy.
Damhnait I just finished New Girl in Little Cove.
I LOVED IT.
It’s not often that a reader can be entertained and learn, (by entering a new world, so to speak), at the same time. Your characters are wonderful, your sense of place stellar.
Betsy, this (new-start) book deserves a script. This book deserves the big screen with an award winning sound track.
Again Damhnait, I loved it.
Thank you so much Carolynn! You’ve just made my week!
I gotta buy me some red shoes babe.