Agent

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:

Memoirists like Abby Sher, whose latest 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, November 2009)
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, May 2009)
Joselin Linder and Elena Mauer, authors of HAVE SEX LIKE YOU JUST MET, a smart guide for women in monogamous relationships who are looking to improve their sex lives. It follows THE GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO LIVING IN SIN, a hip manual for women who are planning to live with their boyfriends or already do. (Adams Media, February 2010)
Jenna Bergen’s YOUR BIG FAT BOYFRIEND: How to Stay Thin While Dating a Diet Disaster is a fun mix of do-able tips for staying trim and humorous experiences the author and real women have shared with their veggie-hating boyfriends. (Quirk Books)
Lynn Kiele Bonasia’s first novel SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED followed a technical writer in her 30s who moves to Cape Cod and decides it’s time to stop writing about safety precautions and to start living a life of her own. Her second novel, SUMMER SHIFT, will be published in the summer of 2010 and chronicles a widowed Cape Cod restaurant owner’s attempt to find peace, love and human connections among a cast of colorful locals. (Touchstone Fireside)
Bhira Backhaus’s debut novel UNDER THE LEMON TREES, a story about finding love and discovering a true home while navigating traditions, family and faith. (Thomas Dunne Books)
Susan Gilbert-Collins’s novel COOKING WITH THE INSECURE CHEF, 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, Summer 2010)
Lauren Mackler, whose book SOLE MATE: 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)
Michael Osit, Ed.D, a clinical psychologist, examines why and how modern technology shapes our children’s values, attitudes, and behavior in a way that is fundamentally different from previous generations in GENERATION TEXT: Raising Healthy Kids in a High-Tech Age. (AMACOM)
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, 2010)
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, October 2009)

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