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 […]
Hilary Harwell
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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 […]
I’m thrilled to welcome new client, Christa Martin, to the KT Literary family. Both her sweet, highly sensitive protagonist, Feather, and her incredible talent for conveying emotion simply and powerfully immediately got my attention. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to work with such a talent. Her #OwnVoices middle grade […]
An exciting bit of news for client, Barrie Summy, whose middle grade mystery THE DISAPPEARANCE OF EMILY H (Delacorte) has been featured in three sparkly episodes of AppleTV+’s Ghostwriter series. Check out the trailer and go watch the episodes! And if you have a hankering for a great middle grade […]
Congratulations to Henry Clark on today’s release of WHAT WE FOUND IN THE CORN MAZE AND HOW IT SAVED A DRAGON, from Little Brown Books for Young Readers. Check out all of Henry’s books here. You can follow Henry and say congratulations on Twitter, too! An ordinary day turns extraordinary […]
I am beyond thrilled to welcome new client, LC Milburn, to the KT Literary family. LC’s project, BAD ANNIE, came to me via PitchWars 2019, and I was hooked to this dark, mind-bending psychological horror/thriller genre blend from the first page. Blending gorgeous writing with incredible pacing and tension, LC […]