It was a little over a year ago when I reported on Colleen Lindsay's move from Soho Press to Abrams, which took her from running a publicity department to directing marketing operations. After a reorg at Abrams, she went back to freelance publicity, which led to a staff position at Doubleday, where she worked on titles like Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. Now she's making another radical career shift, joining FinePrint Literary Management as an agent, where she'll be looking to represent science fiction, fantasy, and graphic novels, which aligns with her previous role as the director of publicity at Del Rey.

That announcement reminds me that I heard last month about former Thunder's Mouth senior editor Anita Diggs launching her own literary agency last month, Diggs McQuillar Inc., and her active search for a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction authors. Diggs was also a book publicist before switching to editorial; in addition to Thunder's Mouth, she also held positions at Ballantine's One World imprint (coincidentally, when Lindsay was at Del Rey!) and what was then Warner Books. She's also blogging about her new company: "When Thunder's Mouth Press went out of business, I decided it was time for me to become my own boss," she writes. "As an editor there are times when you have to work on books that you are not particularly interested (if another editor quits or is fired, the boss has to give the abandoned projects to someone). There are also times when you desperately want to work on a book but the agent sells it to another House for more money. Now, I will never have to work on projects unless I love them and I can't lose a project that I love."