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Jill is a founding partner of the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency and has been in the publishing industry for over 15 years. Previously, she worked as a Literary Agent with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency for eight years and at Dorchester Publications and Tudor Publishing, editing women’s fiction and suspense/thrillers. Jill also has a strong legal background and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She practiced as an attorney with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for five years.
On the fiction front, Jill looks for women’s fiction, Southern fiction, stories of family, interesting relationships, or multi-generations, paranormal, romantic suspense, category romance, mysteries, and thrillers that keep the pages turning and have an original hook. She is also looking for general commercial fiction and welcomes a dramatic storyline and compelling characters in interesting situations or relationships. If you have a novel that has a highly original concept or voice, Jill would love to see it.
On the non-fiction side, Jill’s areas of interest include current events, business, health, self-help, relationships, psychology, parenting, history, and narrative non-fiction. She is particularly drawn to projects which will move readers or leave them thinking, which make provocative arguments or share interesting research, or which offer useful, new advice.
Jill enjoys working with both new and experienced authors. A few of the authors and projects Jill has represented include former Assistant Secretary of State Susan Shirk’s China, Fragile Superpower (Oxford), which made the L.A. Times bestseller list, world-renowned health and beauty expert Dr. Howard Murad’s The Water Principle: Saving Your Looks and Your Health Through the Science of Cellular Water (Wiley), Stanford University Professor Jo Boaler’s What’s Math Got to Do With it: Helping Children Learn to Love Their Most Hated Subject – and Why It’s Important for America (Viking), “The Love Doctor” Terri Orbuch’s 5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage From Good to Great (Bantam), San Francisco Chronicle bestselling Pat Montandon’s Oh, The Hell of It All! (Harper Collins), Dr. Edith Gelles Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage (Morrow), Victoria Zackheim’s The Other Woman (Warner), Dakota Banks Dark Time: The Mortal Path (Harper Collins), Angi Morgan’s Hill Country Hold-Up (Harlequin Intrigue) and Martin Limon’s The Wandering Ghost (Soho).
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