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Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/97816

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · Sep 12

I wrote a book to help you navigate the strange and wonderful world of writing and publishing books. It covers everything from how to write a query letter to how to write your next book. Get it wherever books are sold! bookshop.org/p/books/writ...

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, dystopian fiction 😆

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 7h

The Lady with the Borzoi, no?

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 7h

As foretold in Click Clack Moo

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 7h

The person in front of me at a market in Park Slope bought 8 sticks of Land o Lakes butter and it cost $17.89. 🫠

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 7h

“Part One is 500,000 words.”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 18h

Mega shout out to one of my favourite authors, @authoroux.bsky.social, who is back in the GFFA next year!

Cover for STAR WARS: LEGACY by Madeleine Roux

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for listening!

Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 2d

That is not the point here

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 2d

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 2d

yessssssss

Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, the thing keeping me going is the person on insta cleaning their ancient linoleum one tile at a time. I don't know what I'll do when they're done.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 2d

What audiobooks were so good you had to also buy the print editions, just so you could hold it in your hands (and read it again)? I'll start:
The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
The Women who Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow
Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang Smith

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 2d

I misread this as The Villages as in the retirement community in FL lol

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2d

really appreciated this read of the book, and extremely flattered to be mentioned in the same breath as torrey and grace www.thecut.com/article/grac...

Have You Ever Fantasized About Running Away?

The temptation and limitations of going off the grid.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 2d

I bet these dudes have not bought their partners tampons one single time.

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Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 2d

Weekend reading

Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 5d

I'm starting a new series on my newsletter Agents & Books about how to be an author. Click through to see what I mean, but also to praise me for making a gif of @trungles.com's new book, all by myself.

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How To Be An Author

Hi all, You're here for how-tos. That's what I set out to do when I started this newsletter way back in 2019 (!!!)–put things you needed to know about writing, publishing, and literary agents all in ...

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 3d

Q&A Thursday: Back to the Well Edition
Today writers ask:
1. When should I nudge and agent?
2. Can I query an agent a third time?
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Q&A Thursday: Back to the Well Edition

Hello friends, Let's answer some questions! As always, Q&A Thursdays are open to paid Agents & Books subscribers and you can send me your questions via this handy form! Click to Ask a Question! Not...

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 3d

I saw two people do rock, paper, scissors for the last citibike dock in front of NY Comic Con and that is the essence of New York.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 3d

It’s always a good day when there will be more @kategavino.bsky.social books in the world!

Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 3d

🎉Thrilled to announce we'll publish graphic novel TAKE CARE by @kategavino.bsky.social in 2027!

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 3d

frt it was warm

Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 3d

OK, that first button was broken and my fault lol. Fixed now!

Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 3d

Huh, that it weird! Lemme check on that. You might have luck with clearing your cache but it could be on my end, too. Thanks for letting me know!

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, Mr. John McKean

Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 3d

Today in being obsessed with my own last name: I am listening to the audio of Jonathan Strange and Dr. Norrell (DIVINE!) one of the 10,000 names she uses is Dr. John McKean. I had to see if it was a McKeen or McKean and from the looks of it I am possibly related to this fictional character.

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Victoria Rosenthal @pixelatedvicka.bsky.social · 4d

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the greatest games I've played. I wanted to show my love for the game and did so in the only way I knew I could, by learning how to make baguettes!

Recipe can be found here:
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#Expedition33 @sandfallgames.bsky.social

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