Gail Fortune is a literary agent with the Talbot Fortune Agency. She is a literary agent and former book editor with over twenty-five years of publishing experience. Prior to becoming an agent she spent sixteen years at Putnam Berkley (now part of Penguin Random House), where she rose from Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief to Executive Editor. Her authors won RITAs and Agatha’s and were Edgar, Anthony and Shamus nominees. She has edited and agented New York Times and USA Today bestsellers and Publisher’s Weekly Books of the Year. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.