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 […]
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Congratulations to Niki Lenz on the release of her second middle grade novel, THE STEPMOM SHAKE-UP, out today from Random House Children’s Books. Grace + her dad, Davy = Team Gravy. No way is a new stepmom going to break up this team. . . . Filled with reverse Parent […]
Henry Clark, author of WHAT WE FOUND IN THE SOFA AND HOW IT SAVED THE WORLD and THE BOOK THAT PROVES TIME TRAVEL HAPPENS, joins us to talk about his newest middle grade novel WHAT WE FOUND IN THE CORN MAZE AND HOW IT SAVED A DRAGON. We talk about […]
Please help us congratulate Mayonn Paasewe-Valchev on the sale of her debut novel! Coming in 2021, THE LEOPARD BEHIND THE MOON is magical realism for the middle grade reader – a warm, sweet, beautiful story about friendship, healing, grief, community…and more than one intruding, talking animal. From this week’s Publishers […]
Happy release day to the irrepressible heroes of Emily Ecton’s THE GREAT PET HEIST, out now from Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster! Ocean’s Eleven meets The Secret Life of Pets in this hilarious and delightfully illustrated novel following a ragtag group of pets who will do whatever it […]
Please help us give a warm welcome to kt literary’s newest client, Lani Frank! I am thrilled to welcome Lani into the kt literary family! Her MG fantasy, GOLNICK AND KIRA SEARCH FOR A HEALER (BUT GET A BIT SIDETRACKED) is a humorous adventure through a silly and sometimes scary […]
“By reimagining a traditional story in a contemporary context, populating it with faceted Native characters, and centering it on and around the Navajo Nation, Roanhorse shows that Native stories are active and alive. Native readers will see themselves as necessary heroes while readers of all walks will want to be […]
Congratulations to Niki Lenz, whose debut novel BERNICE BUTTMAN, MODEL CITIZEN was released today! Bernice Buttman is the biggest bully in the 5th grade. She loves pounding puny kids and eating cheese balls till her fingers turn orange. Her latest and greatest ambition is to attend the Hollywood Hills Stunt […]
Please help us congratulate Samantha San Miguel on the sale of SPINELESS!! From PW Children’s Bookshelf: Debut Rachael Stein at Sterling Children’s Books has acquired Spineless, a middle grade debut by Samantha San Miguel that follows Algie Emsworth, whose asthma takes him from 19th-century London to a health resort in the jungles of […]