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Kathleen represents NYT bestselling and award-winning authors for picture books, chapter books, middle grade, YA, and adult novels. When it comes to novels, Kathleen loves both contemporary and fantasy as well as the spooky and unexpected. She loves multi-generational stories, matrilineal magic, and is always happy to see high-concept contemporary romance. She also enjoys darker suspenseful reads and loves atmospheric settings that feel like a character.
For picture books, she works on both fiction and nonfiction. For nonfiction, she’s drawn to environmental and STEM themes and would love to find something fresh and funny that can entice even reluctant readers. She loves animals and books about their welfare and science. She's always interested in picture books that inspire emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and empathy. She loves to laugh, and sweet younger stories and board books are also of interest. After reading many, many vehicle books with her toddler, she'd love to find something for the youngest car and construction lovers.
Kathleen’s list includes novels by Ann Liang such as the NYT Bestselling I HOPE THIS DOESN’T FIND YOU and NEVER THOUGHT I'D END UP HERE as well as Gloria Chao's EX MARKS THE SPOT, to captivating fantasy like Lisa Maxwell’s NYT bestselling THE LAST MAGICIAN series and to thought-provoking contemporary novels like I AM NOT JESSICA CHEN by Ann Liang and Supriya Kelkar’s ROOHI AND NATE ARE NOT ON THE SAME PAGE, and Aimee Lucido’s WORDS APART. Kathleen also represents adult fiction such as Ann Liang’s NYT Bestselling A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS (INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER, A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK, an October 2024 Indie Next Pick and an October 2024 Library Reads Pick) and Gloria Chao's THE EX-GIRFRIEND MURDER CLUB (a USA TODAY BESTELLER). In addition to novels, Kathleen represents picture books and board books such as YOU ARE THE LAND by Steph Littlebird (two time American Indian Youth Literature Honor Winner), Josh Funk's witty MY PET FEET and the LADY PANCAKE AND SIR FRENCH TOAST series, Carole Lindstrom’s NYT Bestselling WE ARE WATER PROTECTORS (for which the illustrator won The Caldecott Medal), SHARK LADY by Jane Addams Peace Award Honoree Jess Keating, and ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel (Schneider Family Award Honor).
RECENT DEALS
AUTHOR/ ILLUSTRATOR PB: Supriya Kelkar to co-write and illustrate I WORE INDIAN CLOTHES TO SCHOOL TODAY, inspired by the creators' children wearing Indian clothes to picture day in different states on the same day, a story of kids who express their American and Indian culture with purpose and pride. Sold to Abrams Children's.
BOOK CLUB FICTION: Gloria Chao's THE MORTAL ENEMY MURDER CLUB, a sequel to THE EX-GIRLFRIEND MURDER CLUB and second book in the Hu Done It mysteries, in which a woman and her friends are back on a new case after solving the murder of their shared ex-boyfriend, with the accused this time being their mortal enemy from the first book. Sold to Hanover Square Press.
CONTEMPORARY MG: Lorien Lawrence to co-write CASH GRAB, pitched as a contemporary Blank Check, in which an armory truck crashes and the money flies out, and three seventh graders jump at the chance to change their lives, but when the consequences become real, what happens when each friend has a different idea of how to do the right thing? Sold to Disney-Hyperion.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION: NYT-bestselling author of I HOPE THIS DOESN'T FIND YOU Ann Liang's NEVER THOUGHT I'D END UP HERE, about a former model who is sent on an intensive two-week travel program across China to get back to her roots—but it might also be her only chance to get back at the cynical, sarcastic boy who ruined her life. Sold to Scholastic.
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR PB: American Indian Youth Literature Honor Winer Steph Littlebird's YOU ARE THE LAND, a joyful exploration of the love that surrounds a child as she grows up within a family and community that honor the natural world. Sold to Nancy Paulsen, PRH at auction.
PICTURE BOOK NF: Annette Bay Pimentel and Pirita Tolvanen's NUMBERS TELL STORIES TOO, about how Florence Nightingale's passion for statistics and her creation of the Rose Diagram revolutionized hospitals. Sold to Beach Lane Books, S&S.
CONTEMPORARY MG: Ashley Franklin's SAFI'S SUMMER SPLIT, about a girl who wants to have a summer of fun, only to have plans change when her problem-starter cousin unexpectedly comes to town, leading to a bowling battle for the right to chill at a local anime hangout and win at summer in a totally unexpected way. Sold to Salaam Reads, S&S.
AUTHOR/ ILLUSTRATOR PB: Cynthia Cliff's MARY E. AND THE APPLE TREE, about a girl's experiences on her family's orchards, and how our traditions involving food can travel through generations, connecting people to a place as well as to each other. Sold to Greenwillow, PRH.
THINGS I LOVE:
Funny Smart Nonfiction
Cozy Vibes
Unexpected Twists
Trucks & Things that Go
Forest Magic
Curmudgeons
I am always interested in anything witchy, whimsical, or feminist.
REPRESENTATIVE TITLES
I believed in fairies and gnomes as a kid and that never really went away. I look for the magic in everyday life.
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