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Kate McKean is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, NY, whose clients include Alix E. Harrow, Daniel M. Lavery, and Mattie Lubchansky. She was an adjunct professor at New York University for over a decade and earned her MA in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, Catapult, and elsewhere. She writes the popular Substack newsletter, Agents & Books, at AgentsandBooks.com. When is an author ready to query their work? I think authors are ready to query when, first, they’ve addressed, edited, fixed all …
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NYT-bestselling author of EVE Cat Bohannon's BEING ALIVE: THE NEW SCIENCE OF FEMALE HEALTH AND WHY IT COULD SAVE US ALL, a narrative medical story of the female body across developmental stages from birth through old age, unpacking the relationship between one's sex, life history, community, brain, and body, to Quynh Do at Knopf (US) and to Anne Collins at Random House Canada (Canada), by Elyse Cheney and Isabel Mendia at The Cheney Agency. Rights also to Helen Conford at Hutchinson Heinemann (UK), by Natasha Fairweather … read more
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