We have a lot of work to do to make the publishing industry more diverse, but I'm starting today. Details on our website about a new opening at KT Literary.
This is your periodic reminder that agents face rejection all the time too, so I’m just gonna sit in this hotel room by myself and eat this pint of ice cream.
Colorado friends: I just got through to
@CoryGardner
's office, and the staffer there says he's unable to speculate whether Gardner is an up or down vote at this time. Call and add your voice to tell him to vote no!
I stripped the bed to wash my sheets and my seven-year-old walked in and asked if we were moving, so I guess I need to change the bed more often?
#Parenting
Sending love to
@maureenjohnson
on her birthday, and on this incredibly tough day. My heart is with her and Oscar as they send
@zelda__johnson
off with all the love.
From all of us at KT Literary to all of you: wishing you a happy, healthy, peaceful holiday season. May you find time to read great books in your favorite genre, be inspired, and be with the ones you love!
Self-care today was curling up with a delightful romcom that made me laugh and cry, feel empathy and joy for others, and just escape into a world of good friends, great food, flirting, and desire. And the best part? It’s a client manuscript!!
I love a day when I can read two client manuscripts, meet fabulous publishing people for coffee, and get highly exciting news for an author. Today was a good day, is what I’m saying.
My five-year-old just explained the plan for her school’s lockdown drill tomorrow: “we all have to hide in the bathroom and be quiet, not blah blah blah, and a policeman will come and rattle the door and we can’t make a noise.”
I hate this country right now.
After visiting Burano, a center of lace-making in the Venice lagoon for centuries, I’d love to find a book about the Italian girls kidnapped by the French court to use their skills exclusively for the French king.
#MSWL
Congrats to
@maureenjohnson
and
@WednesdayBooks
for this lovely
@sljournal
review of HOW I RESIST! "The editor has done an exceptional job calling on different voices to share their wisdom and thoughts on making a difference. A worthy addition to YA collections."
Wee Kate who lived in London in 1995 with
@maureenjohnson
and ate Loops for multiple meals a day, could never have imagined how casually I just went shopping on New Bond Street and considered buying a £895 purse. I’m very proud of us.
High praise: my husband and I watched THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME last night, and he said, “I imagine that’s how you and
@maureenjohnson
would be in Europe.”
Yes, please.
Also, in this scenario, I get to be Mila Kunis.
Sent my kiddos off to school today for the final day of the year with so much fear. And a heartbreaking realization that today isn't any more or less likely a day for a school shooting. Because this country is so broken.
Happy September! I haven’t updated the website yet, but
@SaraMegibow
,
@HannahFergesen
, and I (Kate) are all open for queries! Website and auto-responder update coming soon. Send us all your fabulousness!
Evergreen tweet this year: remote learning is hard. Parents, we never signed on for this. Kids never signed on for this. Teachers never signed on for this. Anyone trying to find a way to make this work is doing a superhuman job.
That doesn’t make it easy.
Two full manuscripts read in the last two days, and another one the week before, none of which I am getting credit for on GoodReads yet! (Even if I were using it today, which I’m not, because
#AmazonStrike
.) But I had to tell SOMEONE.
"if we merge mercy with might and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright."
@TheAmandaGorman
This is the line I was so struck by. Just beautiful.