Career
Collins started her career in the book industry as the book buyer for Village Green Books in Rochester, New New York In 1996, she became a National Account Representative for Prima Publishing. In 2001, she was named Director of Sales at Adams Media in Boston and, then, rose to the Special Sales Director for parent company, F+West Media.
Over her career, she has sold to Barnes & Noble, Target, Costco, Borders, Books-A-Million, Wal-Mart, and all the major chains as well as helped launch several private label publishing programs for the book chains and companies such as PetSmart and Caremark Corporation. In February 2006, Collins started a book marketing company for small presses that quickly became one of the fastest-growing book distribution companies in North America, New Shelves Distribution.
She also serves as a professional speaker and is the author of lieutenant’s The Little Things (2003) and The Write Way (2015). She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the State University of New York, Geneseo.
