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Literary Agents Have Something New to Sell: Themselves
The New York Times • • business
Key Points:
- Literary agent Kate McKean is hosting Q&A sessions at Liz’s Book Bar in Brooklyn ahead of her 2025 guidebook release, "Write Through It," to help aspiring authors navigate publishing.
- Attendees ask McKean about standing out in submissions, the role of social media, timing for queries, and how to get noticed by agents.
- McKean emphasizes the business nature of publishing, stating book deals occur because publishers aim to make money, not simply because an author "deserves" it.
- Since 2019, McKean has shared straightforward publishing advice through her newsletter "Agents and Books," which has about 34,000 subscribers and is linked to her upcoming book.
