Laurie graduated from Wells College in 1992 with a BA in Communications. She completed internships at ABC’s Nightline and The Ithaca Journal, where she gained experience in broadcast and print journalism. Her first job after graduating was at the Simon & Schuster imprint Touchstone\/Fireside as an Editorial Assistant.<\/p>\n
Laurie joined Hyperion in 1994 as an Editorial Assistant and had been promoted to Senior Editor by the time she left in 1998. During her time there she acquired and edited non-fiction only and was responsible for five NY Times bestsellers, by George Carlin, Chris Rock, Jeff Foxworthy, and Cameron West PhD. She also worked with other notable authors, such as Joey Green, Marg Stark, George Newall and Tom Yohe, Ariel Gore, Elaine St. James, and the Business Week bestselling writer Jeffrey Fox.<\/p>\n
Laurie became a Literary Agent when she joined DeFiore & Company in 2003, where she has represented multiple NY Times and national bestsellers and secured hundreds of book deals to all the major publishers. She has also secured dramatic rights deals that have led to significant screen success, including the #1 blockbuster movie Marley & Me<\/i>, based on John Grogan’s bestselling memoir, and The CW drama Hellcats<\/i>, based on Kate Torgovnick’s Cheer!: Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Laurie is the inventor of the Agent Obvious app, which she created after her Twitter advice stream of the same name gained high approval ratings.<\/p>\n
Laurie is a member of the AAR and frequently attends writers’ conferences, such as the Montgomery County Community College Annual Writers Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-927572","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n