How to Write a Killer Mystery -- Get Published CD

Jill Marsal is a literary agent with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. She looks for mysteries and thrillers that keep the pages turning and have an original hook. In commercial fiction, she welcomes a dramatic storyline, strong voice, or compelling characters in interesting situations and relationships. On the nonfiction side, her areas of interest include health, self-help, relationships, psychology, business, parenting, history, current events, and narrative nonfiction. Some of the books she has represented include Victoria Zackheim's The Other Woman (Warner), Dakota Banks' The Mortal Path: Dark Time (Harper Collins), Martin Limon's The Door to Bitterness (Soho), Larry Engelmann and Emily Wu's Feather in the Storm (Pantheon), former Assistant Secretary of State Susan Shirk's China, Fragile Superpower (Oxford), Barry Popkin's The World is Fat (Avery), and Aida Donald's Lion in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt (Basic). She will conduct consultation appointments and present, "How to Write a Killer Mystery and Get it Published."

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