Full Agent Profile: Kate McKean

Kate McKean

Sports | Food & Lifestyle | How-To | Memoirs | Art | Women's Issues | Pop Culture | Narrative | Health & Fitness | Gay & Lesbian | Cultural/Social Issues | Humor | Journalism | Home/Design | Juvenile | Gift Books

• Kate McKean joined HMLA in 2006. She earned her master’s degree in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi and began her publishing career at the University Press of Florida. She is proud to work with New York Times best selling authors in a wide variety of genres including Mallory Ortberg’s TEXTS FROM JANE EYRE, Madeleine Roux’s YA horror series ASYLUM, and Brittany Gibbons’ memoir FAT GIRL WALKING. In addition to working with clients, she is an adjunct professor at New York University.
  
• For adults, she is primarily interested in contemporary romance, contemporary women's fiction, literary fiction, historical fiction set in the 20th Century, high fantasy, magical realism, science fiction. For children, she is looking for projects in middle grade and young adult in the areas of thriller, horror, romance, LGBTQ issues, contemporary fiction, sports, magical realism, fantasy, and science fiction. In non-fiction, for adults or children/teens, she represents books by authors with demonstrable platforms in the areas of pop-culture, memoir, sports, food writing, humor, design, creativity, and craft.

• She is NOT actively looking for, among other areas not listed above, novellas, poetry, screenplays or children's picture books. If your manuscript features dragons, vampires, angels/demons, werewolves, FBI agents or amateur sleuths, she is not likely the best agent for your work.
  

• http://morhaimliterary.com/submissions

• Graduate of University of Florida and University of Southern Mississippi