Presenters

In Person Conference

Jill Marr Jill is an agent at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. She graduated from SDSU with a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing and a minor in history. She has over 20 years of publishing experience, and wrote features and ads for Pages, the literary magazine for people who love books, as well as book ads for publishing houses, magazine pieces, and promotional features for television.

Jill is looking for fiction and non-fiction by unrepresented voices, BIPOC and Latinx writers, disabled persons, and people identifying as LGBTQ+, among others. She is interested in commercial and upmarket fiction, with an emphasis in dark romance, romantasy, romance, speculative fiction, mysteries and thrillers, Gothic, horror, and historical fiction. She loves food-centric novels, no matter what the genre. She is looking to find more dark romance and rom coms with a fresh voice, perspective and a strong hook. When it comes to suspense she likes it dark and psychological in the vein of Freida McFadden. Her tastes lean more in the vein of The Silent Patient, The Lost Apothecary, Mexican Gothic and the works of S.A. Cosby than Private Investigator and CIA stories. Her tastes in horror run closer to Riley Sager, Shirley Jackson, and Paul Tremblay rather than slasher horror. And she almost never takes on military or Western projects. However she is a sucker for novels with grounded magical realism, and is always looking for a new take on mythology or folklore.

She is also looking for non-fiction by authors with a big, timely, smart message. She’d like to see work that does a deep dive into subcultures and social commentary as well as historical projects that look at big picture issues.

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