Win a 30-minute AMA consultation with Laurie McLean, Partner and Literary Agent at Fuse Literary. Laurie has 17 years of experience as an agent and 20+ years of experience in high-tech marketing. Laurie's specialties are promotion, how to sell a book, querying, pitching agents and editors, what makes a good story, etc. Anything publishing-related is fair game. And if you want to spend 30 minutes pitching Laurie your work in progress, she is all ears.

Laurie McLean spent 20 years as the CEO of a multi-million-dollar marketing agency and 8 years as an agent/senior agent at Larsen Pomada Literary Agents before co-founding Fuse Literary in 2013 with her business partner Gordon Warnock. At Fuse Lit Laurie specializes in middle grade, young adult and adult genre fiction including romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, suspense, thrillers, and weird westerns. Laurie is also the Director of the San Francisco Writers Conference, in its 18th year, and she co-founded two ePublishing companies that she eventually sold: Joyride Books for romance, and Ambush Books for tween and teen books. Find out more at FuseLiterary.com or on Instagram @fuseliterary, and on Twitter @FuseLiterary and @AgentSavant.

Image: A headshot of Laurie McLean.