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Danielle Egan-Miller
President
Danielle Egan-Miller is publishing industry professional with more than 15 years of experience as an editor and agent. A 1990 graduate of Loyola University of Chicago and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She is also a 1991 graduate of the Radcliffe Publishing Course.
After working for a law firm, then several freelance and contract editorial jobs, Danielle began her book publishing career in earnest first as the assistant to, then as the associate of, Jane Jordan Browne, President of Multimedia Product Development, Inc. Under Jane's tutelage, Danielle participated in all aspects of agency business including selling fiction and non-fiction projects, then translation, audio and film/television rights for many of the agency's top properties. She worked on a variety of successful projects including numerous non-fiction works in categories such as biography, cookbooks, self-help/relationships, pop culture, humor, home improvement, movie guides, and general business. She also worked closely with many of the agency's best-known novelists.
After nearly 5 years at MPD, Inc., Danielle made the transition to editor. Starting with Dearborn Trade, then NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group, and finally McGraw-Hill Trade, she acquired and edited a large list of titles with a strong emphasis on business subjects. She handled Dearborn Trade's consumer small business, entrepreneurship, and real estate lists. With her move to NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group, she became editor and manager of the NTC Business Books imprint, a list of trade/professional titles focused on marketing, advertising and public relations. She oversaw the co-publishing relationship with the American Marketing Association, which yielded more than 60 published titles. She also established new publishing relationships with Advertising Age magazine, the premier publication of the advertising/marketing industry, and with the ABA Journal, the official publication of the American Bar Association. In addition, she edited and published numerous general trade titles under the Contemporary Books and McGraw-Hill Trade imprints in the areas of personal finance, real estate, self-help, relationships, inspiration, reference, and spirituality. Danielle served as editor to many well-known authors including: Henry Abts, David H. "Andy" Bangs, Jr., Bob Bly, Bob Garfield, Seth Godin, Steven Keeva, Leslie Levine, Michael Levine, Leil Lowndes, Peter Miller, Don Schultz, and Bob Stone.
In 2002, Danielle returned to Multimedia Product Development, Inc. as a full partner in the agency. The business was renamed Browne & Miller Literary Associates. Upon Jane Jordan Browne's death in February 2003, Danielle became President. She is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, Romance Writers of America, Mystery Writer's of America, The Author's Guild, and the Midwest Writers' Association.
Danielle spends most of her free time with her husband, young son, and rowdy English Pointer named Raleigh. She is a soccer mom, an avid gardener, a home improvement enthusiast (she must be, as she lives in a house built in 1889), a strong swimmer, a respectable Xbox player, and she subscribes to way too many magazines. Though Danielle reads ample non-fiction (she loves biographies in particular), most of her long-time favorite books are novels. They include: everything by Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Alienist by Caleb Carr, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory (a new favorite!), A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (and almost everything by Anne Rice), Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, and the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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