• Forest for the Trees
  • THE FOREST FOR THE TREES is about writing, publishing and what makes writers tick. This blog is dedicated to the self loathing that afflicts most writers. A community of like-minded malcontents gather here. I post less frequently now, but hopefully with as much vitriol. Please join in! Gluttons for punishment can scroll through the archives.

    If I’ve learned one thing about writers, it’s this: we really are all alone. Thanks for reading. Love, Betsy

About Me

BL Author Photo 2024_Maryana KarayimBetsy Lerner is the author of the forthcoming novel, Shred Sisters  (Grove Press, October 2024). She is also the author The Bridge Ladies, The Forest for the Trees and Food and Loathing. With Temple Grandin, she is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns and Abstractions. She received an MFA from Columbia University in Poetry where she was selected as one of PEN’s Emerging Writers. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors. After working as an editor for 15 years, she became an agent and is currently a partner with Dunow, Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency.

Please contact me to set up a book club visit, workshop or talk. For inquiries regarding literary representation, please go to www.dclagency.com for submission guidelines. Thanks for your interest.

Literary Representation: David Black @ The Black Agency DBlack@Dblack.agency.com

Film and television: Howie Sanders @ Anonymous Content Howie@anonymouscontent.com

Photo credit: Maryana Karayim

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