Jennifer Pooley
Jennifer Pooley has been an Editor with HarperCollins imprint William Morrow since 1998 where her list encompasses literary and mainstream fiction and non-fiction. She has most recently published Willy's Vlautin's Northline, Sarah Hall's Daughters of the North, and Jennifer Sey's Chalked Up and upcoming titles from her include Michael Zadoorian's The Leisure Seeker (a novel she acquired with film rights to Sharp Independent at HarperCollins, www.sharpindependent.com which also holds the film option on Willy Vlautin's Northline) and Daniel James Brown's Following Sarah: The Harrowing Wedding Journey of Sarah Graves Fosdick.
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 Marjorie Hart's 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 -- and gift/pop culture titles such as Amy Allen's This Little Piggy Went to Prada and Concetta Bertoldi's Do Dead People Watch You Shower?
Above all, on both the fiction and non-fiction side she is interested in emotionally compelling storylines that allow the reader to experience the human condition through a distinctly new prism.
Note: Due to the volume of submissions she cannot accept/open/nor return unsolicited submissions either previous to or following the conference. She also does not acquire genre titles of any kind: crime; thriller; or romance, and can promise that if you don't spell check your appointment pages, that she will not finish reading them!