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Jennifer Pooley has been with HarperCollins imprint William Morrow since 1998 where her list encompasses literary and mainstream fiction and non-fiction. She has most recently published July Booksense pick The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents and One Enduring Friendship by Sara James and Ginger Mauney (memoir); April Booksense Notable pick Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart (memoir); and May Booksense pick The Motel Life (a debut novel) by Willy Vlautin. She also publishes such critically acclaimed authors as K.L. Cook (The Girl from Charnelle); Catherine Hanrahan (Lost Girls and Love Hotels); Christopher Bram (Exiles in America); Maud Casey (Genealogy); Sarah Hall (the forthcoming Daughters of the North); Daniel James Brown (reprint: Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 and the forthcoming Following Sarah: The Harrowing Wedding Journey of Sarah Graves Fosdick) amongst others.
She is actively seeking new voices in literary and mainstream fiction and nonfiction (memoir, history, biography, journalism, social, and popular science). She also acquires more whimsical work, including memoir that delivers an unforgettable arm chair experience such as Marina Palmer’s Kiss and Tango: Diary of a Dancehall Seductress as well as the aforementioned Summer at Tiffany—which she discovered at the San Diego State University Writers Conference in January 2006 and acquired from the 83-year-old debut author on its first 20 pages alone for those wondering if conference dreams can really come true—and gift titles such as Amy Allen’s This Little Piggy Went to Prada and David C. Barnette’s The Official Guide to Christmas in the South or If You Can’t Fry It, Spraypaint it Gold.
Note: Due to the volume of submissions she cannot accept/open/nor return unsolicited submissions either previous to or following the conference.
