Amy has lived and worked in the publishing industry since 1991. Starting as a book buyer for a chain of bookstores in New York, Collins spent over 20 years selling books to Barnes & Noble, Target, Costco, Books-A-Million, Wal-Mart. She is a trusted agent, teacher, and speaker. Collins is uniquely positioned to help authors because of her decades of marketing experience. In 2006 she founded New Shelves Books, one of the largest book sales and marketing content providers in the US. Now she spends her days helping authors match their talents with the marketplace.<\/p>\n
She is a USA TODAY and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author and is on the national advisory board for IngramSpark, is a featured columnist for THEBOOKDESIGNER, WRITERS DIGEST MAGAZINE, IBPA, and a sought-after teacher at conferences world-wide. She has taught and spoken at many of the publishing industry’s top festivals and conferences including Publisher’s Weekly’s BookCon, Oklahoma Writer’s Conference, Author U, AAPS, Dublin Writers Conference, BAIPA, PALA, St. Louis Writer’s Conference, Writers Digest indieLAB, Henderson Writers Conference, and many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-991369","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n