Kate McKean is a literary agent and writer in Brooklyn, NY.
When a writing project has a good title, everyone can feel it. But getting there can be a struggle—for both the author and the publishing team, if your project happens to be a book.
In this conversation, author Isaac Fellman and literary agent Kate McKean discuss how writers and the publishing industry define genre . . . and realize the more you talk about it, the less clear the concept becomes.
In the final installment of her column, Kate McKean tells us about the things authors don’t expect to be in a book contract.
In the second installment of her column, Kate McKean tells us all about the rights and subrights that could appear in your contract when you sell your book to a publisher.
As part of our Money Week series, literary agent Kate McKean shares the first installment of her column on book contracts, this one addressing advances, payouts, and royalties.
Lori was in real, actual danger, but it was easy to convince herself she was not.
It was satisfying to see those robins, sparrows, and starlings, because they were still with us. They had stayed.
To all the wonderful would-be authors out there: Do as I say, not as I do.
