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JODY REIN incorporated the literary agency JODY REIN BOOKS, INC. in late 1994. JRB, Inc. has obtained millions of dollars in advances for its clients, and many clients are happily earning additional royalties. JRB's clients' books are published around the world (foreign rights sold by Jenny Meyer Literary Agency), in audio, large print, book club, CD, and digital editions, and several have been optioned for film and television. JRB's client list is small and select, with a focus on commercial and narrative nonfiction, literary and mainstream fiction, and highly visible authors.

Some of JRB's more well-known clients include W. Bruce Cameron, author of the JRB bestseller and TV series 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter; Dean King, whose JRB books include the New York Times bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara, optioned by DreamWorks; and Mark Obmascik, whose JRB book The Big Year is also a New York Times bestseller and also optioned by DreamWorks in conjuction with Ben Stiller's and Curtis Hanson's production companies.

Jody Rein began her publishing career as an editorial assistant for Contemporary Books in Chicago. She was promoted through the ranks there and ultimately transferred to New York as senior editor in Contemporary's New York office.

Ms. Rein moved to Dell Publishing Company in New York and eventually became executive editor there. She remained with Dell through 1991, when Avon (of Morrow/Avon) asked her to take over as executive editor of their larger and more diverse line of books. Morrow/Avon asked Jody to stay on as editor-at-large and consultant even after she moved to Colorado in 1992, but eventually she left the company and started up her own literary agency.

Her work as an agent has been featured in such publications as Publishers Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, The Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post, and in John Baker's Guide to Literary Agents, Jeff Herman's Guide to Literary Agents, and Writers' Digest Guide to Literary Agents, as well as in the Literary Market Place.

Ms. Rein was awarded a highly sought Editorial Fellowship to the Jerusalem Book Fair in 1989. In 1990, she was the only junior-level executive selected by Bantam Doubleday Dell to participate in their in-house Partnership Plus program, a program that sent emissaries of the publisher to bookstores across the country. Ms. Rein is a popular guest speaker at writers' conferences nationwide, including the Aspen Writers Festival, Utah's Writers at Work, and the Maui Writers' Conference. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Denver's Introduction to Publishing course for five years, and has been invited to attend the prestigious Renaissance Weekend. She is a former member of Women in Publishing and a current member of the Association of Authors' Representatives and The Authors Guild.

A skilled writer herself, Jody Rein ghostwrote A New Prescription For Women's Health by Bernadine Healy, M.D. (Director of the National Institutes of Health under President Bush). The book, published in hardcover by Viking in August 1995, received a starred review in Library Journal and an enthusiastic recommendation from Ann Landers in her column.

Ms. Rein received a BA from the University of Michigan in 1980.