Danielle Marshall is an agent at the Jane Rotrosen Agency.

Danielle joined JRA in 2025 after more than 30 years working in publishing and bookselling, with varied experiences across the book business including Editorial Director for Lake Union Publishing, marketing and publicity roles at Workman and Simon & Schuster, as well as frontlist book buyer for the largest independent bookstore on the west coast. An avid reader and editor, she is known as a strong advocate for her authors and for building bestselling brands.

Danielle is looking for fresh voices in women’s fiction, literary fiction, book club fiction, contemporary romance, historical fiction, mystery and suspense, as well as memoir and selected self-help nonfiction. 

Her acquisitions include the #1 Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan, Everything We Keep by Kerry Lonsdale, Leftie and Agatha Award–winning In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen, and Wreckage by Emily Bleeker.

Prior to joining JRA, Danielle held a wide range of book retail and publishing positions, starting as a bookseller in a tiny neighborhood shop in San Francisco twenty years ago. After a long stint as book buyer and then promotions manager for Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon, Danielle made a giant leap into publishing as the marketing and public relations director of the Simon & Schuster imprint best known for their publishing phenomenon The Secret. Aside from reading, Danielle is passionate about live theater, all kinds of music, and her wonderful daughter.