After a book-filled youth in Texas, Molly fell in love with the idea of working in kids’ books while attending Marquette University, as a creative writing major who thought she was on her way to becoming an elementary school teacher. Several publishing internships later, she moved to NYC. Her first job was at Clarion Books, and her second was at HarperCollins Children’s Books; both were focused on School & Library Marketing, and each gave her foundational understandings of the industry that still dramatically influence the ways she works today. After five years, she traded in her Marketing position at HarperCollins for an Editorial role, and swiftly went on to acquire Veronica Roth’s juggernaut Divergent<\/i> series, among many other fantastic projects, from picture books to middle grade and YA novels. After a decade of working inside of publishers, she then spent several fascinating years as Head of Editorial at the publishing\/tech start-up Storybird. She began agenting in 2016 and is thrilled at the ways in which the role of an agent puts all of her prior professional experiences to valuable use in the service of her clients and their books.<\/p>\n
Molly is an instructor at the Columbia Publishing Course and regularly speaks about the craft of writing and the business of publishing at Writers’ Conferences around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-992119","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n