Please help me welcome my newest client, picture book author, Kelly Zhang! I first spotted the pitch for her beautiful, lyrical picture book TAKE ME TO LAOLAO during the #PBPitch event. When it landed in my inbox I immediately fell in love with this story about a little girl with […]
Hilary Harwell
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Please help me congratulate client Jennifer Gruenke on the release of her debut novel – a dark YA fantasy titled OF SILVER AND SHADOW! Ren Kolins is a silver wielder–a dangerous thing to be in the kingdom of Erdis, where magic has been outlawed for a century. Ren is just […]
Please help me give a warm KT Literary welcome to Trenise Ferreira! She’s the author of two very special and inspiring picture books that celebrate Black excellence by highlighting post-Civil Rights era and contemporary Black women and men who have — and still are — influencing culture today. Titled THE […]
Please help me welcome new client, Gregory Funaro, the NY Times best-selling author of Disney-Hyperion’s ALISTAIR GRIM series and later the WATCH HOLLOW series from Harper Collins. When I found Greg’s query in my inbox I nearly had to pinch myself. I’ve been a fan of his books for quite […]
Please help me welcome new client, Judith Valdes Breidenstine! I discovered Judith and her work during the #LatinxPitch event in October and fell in love with her illustrations and her beautiful storytelling. Her picture book, CELEBRATING PERRO, is THE ROUGH PATCH meets A GIFT FOR ABUELITA, an #ownvoices story that […]
Please help us congratulate author Jen Marie Hawkins on the sale of her next YA contemporary, ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE, to Hannah Smith at Owl Hollow Press. From Publisher’s Weekly: Hannah Smith at Owl Hollow has acquired world English rights to All the Lonely People by Jen Marie Hawkins (The Language of Cherries), a […]
Please help us congratulate author Merrill Wyatt on the sale of her middle grade mystery, TANGLED UP IN LUCK, to Kate Prosswimmer at Margaret K. McElderry Books/S&S. From Publisher’s Weekly: Kate Prosswimmer at S&S/McElderry has bought Tangled Up in Luck by Merrill Wyatt (Ernestine, Catastrophe Queen). The contemporary middle grade […]
Please help me welcome new client, Leticia Lacy! Leticia is an author-illustrator whose chapter book series, THE BARKING BEAUTIES – A TABITHA TELL-ALL, landed in my inbox a few weeks back. I’ve been on the hunt for author-illustrators lately, and when I saw her incredible artistic ability combined with a […]
I’m thrilled to announce that Kat Abbott has joined the KT Literary family as my newest client! I am over-the-moon excited to be working with Kat on her hilarious supervillain origin story for middle grade readers. I knew by the second line of her manuscript that I absolutely had to […]