Please help me give a warm, KT Literary welcome to picture book author, Tunisia Williams. Tunisia is a member of SCBWI, Storyteller Academy, and 12×12 PB Challenge. Her short story “And the Band Played On” was among the winners of the #FallWritingFrenzy contest in 2021. I personally was so taken […]
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Please help me give a warm KT Literary welcome to new client, Laurie Lascos! Laurie queried me right after the PitchWars showcase with an incredible PitchWars project – a middle grade horror with heart that’s HIDE AND SEEKER meets CORALINE. It’s gorgeously written, very character-driven and voicey, and manages to […]
Please help me give a warm KT Literary welcome to author/illustrator Lisa Wee! Lisa has illustrated several picture books for prominent organizations and self-published authors. I first fell in love with her quaint, quirky and vibrant illustrations, which are inclusive, embracing diversity in celebrating the lives of children from all […]
Please help me give a warm KT Literary welcome to new client, Kim Bussing. I’m thrilled to be partnering with Kim on her mind-blowing, imaginative middle grade fantasy that simply left me awestruck. From her beautiful, lyrical prose to her intricately crafted, highly original world, tight plotting, surprising twists, and […]
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 welcome Heather Truett to the KT Literary family as my newest client. I fell in love with her YA novel in verse and just knew I had to work with her! Here’s the pitch: When Airy Bull’s ex-boyfriend goes off to college and gets “woke” about feminism, […]