A lifelong writer and a serial entrepreneur, Jessica Dee Rohm started her career at the New York Times. Her first solo enterprise, Jessica Dee Communications, a marketing and communications company, grew to be the sixteenth largest in the country when she sold it. She founded her second venture, Foreign Management Company, a real estate consultancy and brokerage firm catering to investors shortly after. Her clients have included governments, banks, funds, real estate developers from Manhattan to Moscow, as well as many corporations, trusts, and colorful "fiction-fodder" individuals. The New York native graduated from high school as valedictorian of her class, at age 16. Winning a National Merit Scholarship, a Regents Scholarship, and a National Newspaper Scholarship, she attended Barnard College, graduating at age 19 with a B.A. in English literature. She then earned her M.B.A. in management and marketing from Columbia Business School. In 2010, she was awarded her second master's degree, an M.F.A. in creative writing, from Manhattanville College. Jessica Dee Rohm has published numerous feature articles in magazines ranging including regular columns for both Restaurant Hospitality and The Cornell Quarterly. In addition, she has published many newspaper articles in the New York Times, Hartford Courant, Real Estate Weekly, the Hersham Acorn newspaper chain, and others. She has been the subject of several feature stories and profiles in publications ranging from the Fairfield County Business Journal to the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Entrepreneur, the Palm Beach Post, and Glamour. She has been featured in two books-The Confidence Factor by Judith Briles and Whiz Kids by Marilyn Machlowitz.Make Me an Offer was Ms. Rohm's first novel. She is represented by Erica Silverman of Trident Media Group, 41 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. Tel. (212) 981-0647; Fax (212) 262-4849; Email esilverman@tridentmediagroup.com.