Jill Marr
Jill Marr is an acquiring associate agent at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Jill worked at SDLA as Sandy's executive assistant from 2001 to 2004, learning the ins and outs of publishing by working side-by-side with her. She's returned to the agency, now as an acquiring associate agent. She graduated from San Diego State University with a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in History. She has a strong Internet and media background as well as over 10 years of publishing experience. She wrote features and ads for Pages, the literary magazine for people who love books, and continues to write book ads for publishing houses and promotional features for television.
After writing ad copy and features for published books for years, she knows how to find the "hook" and sell it.
Jill enjoys taking the time to meet budding writers at conferences around the country, including The Surry Writers Conference, Pike's Peak Writers Conference, (JAWS) Journalism and Women Symposium, The La Jolla Writers Conference, SDSU Writers Conference, Murder in the Magic City, Killer Nashville, Writers Boot Camp and more.
Jill is interested in commercial fiction, especially women's fiction, multi-cultural fiction, historic fiction, mysteries and thrillers. She is also looking for non-fiction in the areas of self-help, inspirational, cookbooks, memoir (she especially loves travel and foodie memoirs), parenting, history, health & nutrition, pop culture, humor and music.
While she prefers you send manuscripts and proposals by mail, Jill is happy to look at queries by email at jill@dijkstraagency.com. However, keep in mind that she can only respond to the queries that she's interested in seeing.