About us
JM Agency is a dynamic and comprehensive publishing and design agency based in Ireland. Our services include book interior design (both typesetting and editorial design for ‘coffee-table’ books), editing (both developmental and copy-editing) eBook formatting and author websites. We also offer a comprehensive ‘Book Publishing Package’, which includes premium editing, design and printing, and is ideal for authors and organisations seeking an ‘all in one’ service.
Our mission is to ensure books are published to an exceptional standard, with the client’s needs and requirements prioritised throughout. JM Agency consists of six dedicated professionals, who together provide our authors with a diverse range of skills. Based in the beautiful south west of Ireland, we pride ourselves on being friendly and approachable.
Having worked with publishers like Routledge, Springer and Companhia das Letras (Penguin Brazil), and a wide range of authors, including bestselling and award-winning self-published authors, we are good listeners and keen to develop a close working relationship with the client, endeavouring to ensure the finished book matches their expectations and vision.
Meet the team
Jeremy Murphy
Jeremy is an Irish publisher, editor and former journalist. He founded JM Agency in 2018. He is the co-author (with Dan Kiely) of The Final Count, a candid account of the former senator’s colourful and eventful life. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Dublin Technological University. His other interests include app development, journaling and helping people become more creative.
Dr Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan
Sarah’s expertise is in specialised non-fiction, including academic texts, history, local history, sociology, psychology & literary studies. She holds a PhD from DCU’s School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies. Through JM Agency, she has edited manuscripts for academic publishers Palgrave Macmillan and Emerald, including, most recently, HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society (Dr. Alicia Castillo Villanueva and Dr. Angelos Bollas eds.), to be published by Palgrave Macmillan, August, 2024.
Parvathi Venkitaraman
Parvathi is a freelance graphic designer and artist , originally from Mumbai, India. She has designed some of our most unique and accomplished recent book covers, including One Last Bend & Mosaic, and beautifully illustrated Linda Barry Tuohy’s collection Connecting to Source. She has been practicing various fine, digital and print art forms for close to a decade. Parvathi holds a postgraduate diploma in graphic design and visual communication and is a graduate of the University of Mumbai.
Amanda J Evans
Amanda is an award-winning, published Irish author of YA and adult fiction. Amanda appraises fiction manuscripts, mentors writers, and imparts her considerable store of wisdom gleaned from her years as an integral part of Ireland’s creative writing community. She won the Book of the Year Award at the Dublin Writers Conference 2018 and her book The Novel Planning Journal is a comprehensive guide to the art of writing fiction. Her latest novel, Winterland was published by Spellbound Press in 2023.
Cassia Blondelot
Cassia is an editor and translator with an MA in Literature and Publishing from the University of Galway and an MA in English Language, Literature and Culture from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her main focus is on fiction but she loves working on all genres. With JM Agency, she recently edited the children’s book Classroom Hero by David Graham, which Fintan O’Toole praised as “tender, engaging and insightful”, and collaborated on The CEO’s Guide to Competitive Innovation by Patrick Lawlor, Shane Hughes and Sean McNulty.
Susan Lewando
Susan holds an MA in Creative Writing from University College Cork and has held the role of Writing Tutor at the London School of Journalism for many years. She is the author of numerous books across multiple genres, including Legends of the Selkie, which generated a three-book deal Bookouture, to be published in 2024. In addition to her expertise as an editor and typsescript analyst, she advises JM Agency clients on online publishing and distribution.
Dr Tiziana Soverino
Tiziana’s expertise is in academic and specialised non-fiction manuscripts. She holds a PhD in Irish Folklore and Early Irish from UCD, and 9 of her academic articles have appeared in peer-reviewed publications. Her research interests include festivals, place-lore, and folk medicine. She has been working as a teacher and a lecturer in Dublin for over a decade. Tiziana is also a published poet. Her work has appeared in Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland (2010), Boyne Berries (2012), and Ireland’s Own (2015).