Ann Collette was a freelance writer and editor for over fifteen years before joining the Rees Literary Agency in 2000. Her list includes books by New York Times bestselling author B. A. Shapiro, Edgar Nominee Ashley Weaver, Oprah's “Unputdownable Mysteries" author Mark Pryor, Anthony Nominee Vicki Lane, RT Award Nominees Clay and Susan Griffith, Steven Sidor, and Sarah Jensen. She likes literary, upscale commercial women's fiction, book club fiction thrillers, and mystery; in non-fiction, she prefers narrative non-fiction, military and war, work to do with race and class, and work set in or about Southeast Asia. Ann does not represent children's, YA, sci-fi, or high fantasy (Lord of the Rings-type books).