PRESIDENT, JODY REIN BOOKS, INC. Jody has garnered more than a million dollars in advances for her self-published clients. She is highly respected for her expertise in gauging the marketability of self-published books, and in successfully representing them to major publishers. Jody formerly served as executive editor at Bantam/Doubleday/Dell (Random House) and Morrow/Avon (HarperCollins). Her client list includes Mark Obmascik, whose book The Big Year will be released by Fox Studios in October, 2011, starring Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson, and several New York Times bestselling authors, and she sold Bruce Cameron’s 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter in book, TV and fi lm editions. Jody, a popular speaker at writers’ conferences has taught many university-level webinars on agenting and publishing.