Jill Marsal

Jill Marsal is a founding partner of the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. She represents many NYT, WSJ, USA Today bestselling and award-winning authors. She also has a strong legal background and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She loves to partner with authors to help them achieve their publishing dreams and build their writing careers. She represents a broad range of fiction and non-fiction – please see below for specifics.

Fiction | Non-Fiction

FICTION:

Jill is looking for commercial fiction, women’s fiction, contemporary, historical, book club fiction, stories of family, friendship, and interesting relationships, speculative fiction, Southern fiction, romance, and upmarket fiction. She has worked with many top fiction authors including:

• NYT bestselling author – Marina Adair
• NYT bestselling author – Ginny Baird
• WSJ bestselling author – Jamie Beck
• USA Today bestselling author – JL Berg
• USA Today bestselling author – Amanda Bouchet
• USA Today bestselling author – Christie Carlyle
• USA Today bestselling author – Eva Devon
• NYT bestselling author – Stacy Finz
• USA Today bestselling author – Janice Kay Johnson
• NYT bestselling author – Kelsie Leverich
• USA Today bestselling author – Stefanie London
• USA Today bestselling author – Renee Ann Miller
• USA Today bestselling author – Stacy Reid
• NYT bestselling author – Katie Reus
• WSJ bestselling author – Winter Renshaw
• USA Today bestselling author – Jo Segura
• NYT bestselling author – Michelle Valentine

Jill is also looking for mysteries, psychological suspense, domestic suspense, and thrillers that keep the pages turning and have an original hook and great twists. She welcomes a dramatic storyline and compelling characters in interesting situations or relationships. She has worked with leading mystery/suspense authors including:

• USA Today bestselling author – Audrey Cole
• USA Today bestselling author – Kristen Bird
• NYT bestselling author – Lynn Cahoon
• NYT bestselling author – Diane Capri
• NYT bestselling author – Rachel Howzell Hall
• USA Today bestselling author – Tonya Kappes
• Washington Post bestselling author – Minka Kent
• WSJ bestselling author – Melinda Leigh
• USA Today bestselling author – Annette Lyon
• NYT bestselling author – Kristin Miller
• USA Today bestselling author – Diana Orgain
• USA Today bestselling author – Gigi Pandian
• USA Today bestselling author – Rose Pressey

If you have a novel that has a strong hook, original concept or great voice, Jill would love to see it.

NON-FICTION:

Jill’s areas of interest include business (entrepreneurship, management and leadership, sales, growth, customer experience, creativity, etc.), current events, health/wellness, self-help, lifestyle, advice/relationships, psychology, parenting, history, science, animals and nature, and narrative non-fiction. She is particularly drawn to projects which will move readers or leave them thinking, which make provocative arguments or share interesting research, or which offer useful, new advice.

Jill has extensive non-fiction experience and has worked with many bestselling business authors and journalists including:

• WSJ bestselling author – Brent Adamson
• WSJ bestselling author – Matthew Dixon
• WSJ bestselling author – Peter Economy
• NYT bestselling author and Emmy award winning journalist – Carolyn Gusoff
• USA Today bestselling author – Stella Grizont
• NYT bestselling author – Michael Levin
• USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author – Areva Martin
• NYT bestselling author – James Reed
• LAT bestselling and award-winning investigative journalist – Nicholas Schou
• NYT bestselling author – Paul Stoltz
• USA Today bestselling author- Kandi Wiens

She has also represented top business leaders and journalists including:

• CEO and founder of AI Truth – Cortnie Abercrombie
• President of Claris Consulting – Hugh Blane
• Managing Director of the Broad Center – Chaka Booker
• Vice President, Pepsi Co. – Allan Church
• Director of ForbesWomensMedia – Nancy Clark
• Chairman of the Kravis Leadership Institute – Jay Conger
• Head of Talent Development for CVS Health – Ted Fleming
• Former President and CEO of ForeSee – Larry Freed
• Forbes columnist – Zack Friedman
• The Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch.com columnist – Catey Hill
• Chairman & CEO of Founders Space – Steven Hoffman
• Forbes Contributor – Melissa Houston
• Founder of Watermark Consulting – Jon Picoult
• Former CEO of Charles Schwab – David Pottruck
• Senior Vice President at Gartner, Inc. – Jamie Roca
• Founder and CEO of Women Leaders in Data and AI – Asha Saxena
• Co-Founder and Chief Policy, Impact and Government Affairs Officers, Global Citizen – Michael Sheldrick
• Chief Strategy and Growth Officer Money 20/20 – Scarlett Sieber
• Forbes columnist – Daniel P. Simon
• CEO at Inflection Point Partners – Matt Spielman
• Co-founder of OPI – Suzi Weiss-Fischmann

Jill has worked with many of the nation’s premier academics, scholars, and educators including:

• Assoc. Dean for Research at Vanderbilt Law School – Rebecca Haw Allensworth
• Division of Continuing Education Faculty at Harvard – Margaret Andrews
• Professor of Political Science and Classics at U. of Toronto – Ryan Balot
• Research Director for Intl. Security Studies at UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Professor of Economics at UCSD – Eli Berman
• Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education at Stanford – Jo Boaler
• Professor of History at UC Berkeley – Paula Fass
• Professor of Biology at Stanford Deborah M. Gordon
• Professor of International Business, Graduate School of Management, UC Irvine – John Graham
• Professor of Psychology at Boston College – Peter Gray
• Assoc. Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at U. of Texas – Eli Greenbaum
• Executive director of Accelerator for Learning at Stanford – Isabelle Hau
• Assoc. Professor of Economics, School of Global Policy and Strategy at UCSD – Ruixue Jia
• Economist and former research fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford – Tim Kane
• Co-director of the Center on China’s Economy and Institutions at Stanford – Hongbin Li
• Professor of Political Science at U. of Michigan and Asst. Director of the National Science Foundation – Arthur Lupia
• Professor Emeritus of Political Science at The Ohio State U. – John Mueller
• Professor of Classics and Political Science at Stanford – Josiah Ober
• Research Professor at U. of Michigan, Institute for Social Research – Terri Orbuch
• Professor of Political Science at UCSD – Samuel L. Popkin
• Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Emotional Intelligence at Yale – Zorana Pringle
• Professor of Organizational Science at UNC Charlotte – Steven Rogelberg
• Professor of Sociology at UCLA – Abigail Saguy
• Former Deputy Asst. Secretary of State and Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UCSD – Susan Shirk
• Professor in the School of Engineering, U. of New Castle – Mark Stewart
• Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU – Michael Mehta Webster

In health, science, and medicine, she has agented:

• Former president of The American Geriatric Society and Stanford School of Medicine’s – Dr. Walter Bortz
• Director of the Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research at U. of Miami – Dr. Berit Brogaard
• Senior contributor with Forbes and Psychology Today – David DiSalvo
• Neuroscientist, department of psychiatry at UCLA – Dr. Alex Korb
• Editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Sports Medicine and orthopedic surgeon – Dr. Robert F. LaPrade
• Chair of the global social movement, OneSharedWorld, Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, and faculty member of NextMed Health – Jamie Metzl
• Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at U. of Maryland School of Medicine – Dr. Michael Miller
• Former Associate Clinical Professor at UCLA – Dr. Howard Murad
• Radiation oncologist and cancer researcher at the London Health Sciences Centre – Dr. David Palma
• Former National Institute of Health Research Fellow – Lisa Price
• Chair of Psychiatry at Tulane U. School of Medicine – Dr. Michael Scheeringa
• Co-chair for Spine & Pain Rehabilitation for the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation – Dr. Saloni Sharma
• Director of Mind/Body Medicine for Georgia Cancer Treatment Center – Brenda Stockdale
• Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at The Institute of Living and Adj. Assoc. Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine – Dr. David Tolin
• Clinical researcher in the areas of migraine, stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and physician at Emory Healthcare – Dr. Joshua Turknett
• Clinical researcher at the UC Irvine Institute for Memory Impairment and Neurological Disorders and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center – Dr. Tonia Vojtkofsky

Jill welcomes projects from both new and published authors.