Home Submission Guidelines Writer Resources Conferences Clients News About the Agent				Welcome Verna Dreisbach of Dreisbach Literary Management offers professional representation for distinctive voices with a diverse range of non-fiction interests. She is currently looking for emerging and experienced writers and desires books that present the possibility to effect change. The agency has a particular interest in books with a political, economic or social context. She believes in building an agency based on dedication, loyalty and trust, representing the voice behind the work, not just the writing. If you are accepted by Dreisbach Literary Management it is because Verna has faith in your abilities as a writer and feels a connection with your goals and aspirations. Verna is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives.

Why We Ride: Women Writers on the Horses in Their lives By:  Verna Dreisbach Foreword: Jane Smiley Seal Press/Perseus Discover the pure beauty and essence between horse and woman in this collection of personal stories.		It Gets Easier!…And Other Lies We Tell New Mothers By: Claudine Wolk Helion SA Publishing Group Translated into Polish   A fun, practical guide to becoming a new mom.  This innovative, new book will actually make motherhood easier! It Gets Easier! is conversational in tone and easy to read. Most importantly, it has what new mothers are craving in ONE book – humor, honesty, reflection, and prescription.		It Gets Easier!…And Other Lies We Tell New Mothers By: Claudine Wolk Amacom (translated into 3 languages) A fun, practical guide to becoming a new mom.  This innovative, new book will actually make motherhood easier! It Gets Easier! is conversational in tone and easy to read. Most importantly, it has what new mothers are craving in ONE book – humor, honesty, reflection, and prescription.

The Power of Memoir: Writing Your Healing Story By:  Linda Joy Myers Jossey-Bass/Wiley (translated into 2 languages) Therapist Linda Joy Myers provides insight and offers techniques as to how the process of writing personal stories can heal one's emotional life.		Walnut Wine & Truffle Groves By:  Kimberley Lovato Running Press/Perseus AWARD WINNING CULINARY TRAVEL BOOK! Take an edible journey into the heart and hearth of France's best-kept culinary secret in this picture rich travel book of the Dordogne.		Off the Street (True Crime) By:  Christopher Baughman Behler Publications (3 book deal) Detective Christopher Baughman, along with Las Vegas’ finest team of vice investigators, offers a unique look into the heart of prostitution and the women who are subject to its evils. Take an emotional journey as these detectives relentlessly pursue the vicious criminals responsible for these crimes against women.

Acts of God and Man Michael R. Powers Columbia Business School    An eclectic and unconventional “journey into the world of risk,” noted insurance scholar, Professor Michael R. Powers, offers a bemusing treatment of the fields of risk and insurance through a series of entertaining and compelling observations, vignettes, and speculations.		Coming to the Fire:  The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Horses & Cows Gavin Ehringer Ben Bella Books   Our relationship with domestic animals is critical to understanding ourselves and our world.  Coming to the Fire is a moral prescription for what we can do to restore a natural balance with these creatures based upon respect and understanding of their true needs and natures.		Divine Injustice Richard S. Jaffe New Horizon Press      A personal look into the criminal justice system and the unjustness of capital punishment where money, politics and corruption too often result in tragic outcomes.

The Everything Guide to Forming and Operating a Non-Profit Organization By:  Jim Goettler Adams Media, 2010   The Everything Nonprofit Toolkit, Revised, 2012		Lowcountry Bribe  By:  C. Hope Clark Bell Bridge Books  Mystery/Suspense. Book one in the Carolina Slade Mystery Series about a by-the-book bureaucrat whose life is torn apart as she reluctantly becomes involved in solving a crime wrought with fraud, murder, and kidnapping.		How to Blog a Book   By:  Nina Amir Writer's Digest    A step-by-step guide to writing and publishing manuscripts on the Internet one post at a time.  Nina will teach aspiring authors how to create a blogged book with a well-honed and uniquely angled subject, targeted posts, and a readership large enough to get noticed by an agent or a publisher while promoting it and building an author's platform at the same time.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Game Theory By:  Ed Rosenthal Alpha/Penguin Publication Date:  2011		The Short Sale Savior By:  Elizabeth Weintraub Archer Ellison Publishing Discover how home buyers can profit from a short sale and how sellers can get out from under the expense and hardship of a possible foreclosure.		Preserving America: Ten Things we Must Change to Survive Dr. Steven Porter Morgan James Publishing Noted educator and former Democratic candidate for Congress, Dr. Porter offers a compelling and thoroughly researched analysis of the ten issues currently eroding the national landscape and timely, practicable ways of dealing with each critical issue

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Recruiting and Managing Volunteers By:  John Lipp Alpha/Penguin Publication Date:  2009		The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Thrift Store By:  Ravel Buckley and Carol Costa Alpha/Penguin Publication Date:  2010		The Complete Idiot's Guide to Risk Management By:  Annetta Cortez Alpha/Penguin Publication Date:  2010