Centennial Writing Contest Judge Profiles Amberly Finarelli is a literary agent with Andrea Hurst and Associates Literary Management. She has worked in book publishing and freelance writing for over five years. Amberly represents both non-fiction and fiction genres, including: humor/gift books, crafts, how-to, relationships/advice, self-help, psychology, travel, commercial women’s fiction, comic and cozy mysteries, literary fiction with a focus on the arts, culture, and/or history. You can read more about her at www.andreahurst.com/amberly.
Michael Larsen started Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents, Northern California’s oldest literary agency, in 1972. The agency has sold books, mostly by new writers, to more than 100 publishers. Michael has written a number of books regarding the writer-agent dynamic, including How to Write a Book Proposal. He represents non-fiction. You can read more about him at www.larsen-pomada.com.
Lisa Westmorland is a Project Editor at Ten Speed Press in Berkeley, an imprint of Crown Books, with an interest in book acquisitions and management. “She specializes in editing books (developmental editing, copyediting), managing freelancers, writing jacket copy, making friends with authors and agents, and keeping her strange love of the Chicago Manual of Style alive.” Her current focus includes business, career, how-to, gift, self-help and cooking titles. You can read more about her at www.linkedin.com/in/lisawestmoreland.