(Ventura, CA – October 24, 2011) Toni Lopopolo Literary Management has relocated its office from the East Coast to Santa Barbara. Founded in 1991, Toni Lopopolo Literary Management boasts an impressive 35+ years in the book publishing business. A former executive editor at Macmillan and then St. Martin’s Press, Lopopolo combines her many years in publishing with her unique editing skills to provide a full service literary agency to new and seasoned authors.

“I’ve discovered that Southern California and the Central Coast are a hotbed for writers,” Lopopolo said. “I came west to work with several clients last year.  I discovered many talented new writers as well as published novelists who I wanted to represent. My company focuses on literary management – we help develop writing careers, not just sell books to publishers.”

Toni Lopopolo Literary Management provides a high level of service by limiting the number of clients represented but always searching for select new talent and established authors who seek a more personalized relationship with an agent.

Toni Lopopolo partners with authors for the duration of their literary careers and includes development of fiction projects, creation of nonfiction book proposals, and editing when needed.   Toni has brought   many first-time and published authors to print including Sol Stein, Lee Silber, Lillian Glass, Steve Duno, Nancy Baer, Flo Fitzgerald, Judith Smith-Levin, Howard Olgin, romance writer Jeanette Baker, Santa Barbara’s own Shelly Lowenkopf, and many others. She has recently signed Manuel Ramos, Christine Bell, and Frank Lauria.  Publishers include St. Martin’s Press, Simon and Schuster, Crown, Dell, HarperCollins, Kensington, and many others.

Career Background

Literary Agent, Toni Lopopolo, brings a book publishing resume that began in 1970 in the publicity dept of Bantam Books, where she helped publicize authors such as Philip Roth, Barbara Cartland, Isaac Asimov, and Louis L’Amour.
She next served as Library Promotion Director at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, until Houghton Mifflin offered her a position in Boston as Marketing Manager, Paperback Books. Her big campaigns included Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins.  When Macmillan offered Toni the title of Executive Editor, she moved back to New York City and published Judy Mazel’sBeverly Hills Diet, Elvis 56 by Al Wertheimer among other hits. Next St. Martin’s Press made an offer she couldn’t refuse and Toni became Executive Editor there from 1981 to 1990 and published Hot Flashes by Barbara Raskin and Rich and Famous by Kate Coscarelli plus Elsa Lanchester, Herself, by Elsa Lanchester, On The Other Hand by Fay Wray as well biographies of Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and many other titles. She has taught fiction and narrative non-fiction writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her popular workshop “Tea With Toni: Women Writing About Women For Women” has become a Central Coast success.  Her bootcamps partnered with Shelly Lowenkopf creates waiting lists.

To learn more about Toni Lopopolo Literary Management, visit: http://lopopololiterary.com/