Contact Molly Lyons

Molly Lyons began her career in the editorial offices of at Working Woman, Gourmet, Elle Decor, Self and Lifetime magazines. She’s written for publications such as Self, This Old House, Glamour, Redbook, Prevention, Shape, Time Out New York Kids, BabyTalk and Parenting. Her writing and editing background allows her to bring a well-rounded and unique approach to agenting—from developing her clients’ manuscripts and proposals, to positioning them in the marketplace, to helping shape their literary careers.

Clients include:

• Abby Sher, whose book, AMEN, AMEN, AMEN is a moving story of life with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and how the disease becomes a gift in the face of the author’s loss of both of her parents. (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Bestselling author Ben H. Winters, author of THE SECRET LIFE OF MS. FINKLEMAN (HarperCollins), a middle grade novel that features a music teacher with a secret, and the ANDROID KARENINA (Quirk Books), the classic tale—with robots.
• Kate Harding & Marianne Kirby, the leading bloggers in the fat acceptance movement, whose book, LESSONS FROM THE FAT-O-SPHERE: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, will help you do just that—no matter what your scale says. (Perigee)
• Lynn Kiele Bonasia, author of two Cape Cod-based novels: SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED and SUMMER SHIFT. (Touchstone/Fireside)
• Susan Gilbert-Collins’s novel STARTING FROM SCRATCH, introduces Olivia Tschetter who, after her mother’s sudden death, returns home to her family of academics, and plants herself firmly in her mother’s kitchen, where she pieces together the last issue of her mother’s home-grown mail-order newsletter Cooking with Vivian. (Touchstone/Fireside)
• Lauren Mackler, whose book SOLEMATE: Master the Art of Aloneness and Transform Your Life shows readers how being alone can enhance their lives and help them to discover what they truly want from life and their relationships. (Hay House)
• Deborah Swiss’s THE TIN TICKET uncovers the true story of 25,000 nineteenth-century women who were pressed into servitude and shipped off to Australia and Tasmania by retracing the steps of three women who were conscripted into this sisterhood of sorrow and survival and the powerfully radical Quaker reformer, who would touch the lives of nearly half the women transported. (Berkley)
• Private chef and cooking instructor Lauren Braun Costello’s THE COMPETENT COOK: Essential Tools, Techniques and Recipes for the Modern At-Home Cook provides a detailed guide to navigating through all the cookware and gadgets in the marketplace, explains basic techniques and gives you the recipes that will be come classics in your kitchen. (Adams Media)
• Becky Beaupre Gillespie & Hollee Temple, authors of GOOD ENOUGH IS THE NEW PERFECT: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood, who have discovered a growing wave of working mothers who have realized that the key to a well-rounded and satisfying life is to rebuff the current standards of maternal success and to start reaching for goals they can actually achieve. (Harlequin Non-Fiction)
• Lindsay Tam Holland’s DRAGON BONE HILL, a YA novel about a boy with a big problem: His annoying history teacher is expecting him to turn in an essay about his family history, but Vee’s parents—Chinese-born dad and Texas-bred Mom—are mysteriously and stubbornly close-lipped about his ancestors, so he makes it all up. (Simon and Schuster Children’s)
• Raisa Ruder and Susan Campos, authors of BABUSHKA’S BEAUTY SECRETS: Old-World Tips for a Gorgeous New You. Ruder, a Russian esthetician, shares age-old recipes that allow women to pamper themselves in their own homes and walk out feeling like a Hollywood starlet! (Grand Central Publishing)
• Gabe Zichermann and Joselin Linder, authors of GAME-BASED MARKETING: Inspire Customer Loyalty Through Rewards, Challenges and Win Conditions which helps guide businesses into the next decade armed with a whole new business philosophy of “funware.” (Wiley)

Molly is a graduate of Amherst College and serves on the board of Women’s Media Group.