Mary Kole
Editor & Coach
Former literary agent Mary Kole provides consulting and developmental editing services to writers of all categories and genres. She founded Good Story Company in 2019 to create valuable content for writers—like the Thriving Writers Podcast, YouTube channel, and Thriving Writers membership community. Mary has presented at hundreds of regional, national, and international writing conferences, and guest lectured at Harvard, the Ringling College of Art and Design, the Highlights Foundation, and the Loft. She also develops unique and commercial intellectual property for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers with Bittersweet Books.
Mary holds an MFA in Creative Writing and has worked at Chronicle Books, the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, and Movable Type Management. Her writing reference books include: Writing Irresistible Kidlit (Writer's Digest Books/Penguin Random House), Irresistible Query Letters, Writing Irresistible Picture Books, How to Write a Book Now, Writing Interiority: Crafting Irresistible Characters, Writing Irresistible First Pages, and Show and Tell (Good Story Publishing).
