Andrea Jo DeWerd is a book marketing strategist, consultant, writer, speaker, and the founder of the future of agency LLC, a book marketing and publishing consulting agency headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. A 13–year veteran of Big 5 publishing with 105+ career NYT bestsellers, most recently at HarperCollins, Andrea’s experience ranges from commercial (Mary Higgins Clark) and literary fiction (Elizabeth Strout), memoir (Educated by Tara Westover) and narrative non-fiction (former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch), to health and wellness (Dr. Sara Gottfried), business books (Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff), cookbooks (Pati Jinich’s Treasures of the Mexican Table), and bestselling lifestyle brands (The Whole 30).

Andrea previously held positions at HMH Books & Media, Random House, Spiegel & Grau, and Simon & Schuster, and was honored by Publishers Weekly as a 2019 Star Watch finalist. Andrea received her M.S. in Publishing from New York University and B.A. in English from the George Washington University. Andrea's debut novel, What We Sacrifice for Magic, was published by Alcove Press in fall 2024, and she is hard at work on her second. Andrea is represented by Kate McKean at Morhaim Literary.