Description: "Discover what every new and aspiring author needs to know about the publishing industry and how to navigate all the complicated feelings that come with writing a book in this no-nonsense guide from literary agent, author, and creator of the popular newsletter Agents & Books Kate McKean"--
Brief description: Kate McKean is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, New York. She is also an adjunct professor at New York University 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 Agents & Books newsletter at KateMcKean.substack.com.
Review Quotes: "A must have for all aspiring authors! Kate McKean has written a clear, helpful, and encouraging book about the writing and publishing process; she manages to be realistic and detailed, as well as comforting and reassuring."-- Jasmine Guillory, author of the New York Times bestseller The Proposal