More about Katharine SandsA literary agent with the
Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, Katharine has worked with a varied list of authors who publish a diverse array of books.
She represents a wide range of authors in a broad range of categories: She has handled projects for a wide range of clients who publish a diverse array of books.
Nonfiction highlights include:
The SAT Word Slam;
Taxpertise: Dirty Little Secrets the IRS Doesn't Want You to Know;
The House Handbook;
Hands Off My Belly: The Pregnant Woman's Guide to Myths, Mothers and Moods;
The Complete Book of Teenage Plastic Surgery by
Dr. Frederick Lukash,
XTC: SongStories;
Under the Hula Moon (as co-agent);
The Tao of Beauty: Chinese Herbal Secrets to Looking Good and Feeling Great by Ford model
Helen Lee;
Make Up. Don't Break Up by five-time
Oprah guest
Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil,
Give Me That Online Religion by
Dr. Brenda Brasher;
Elvis and You: Your Guide to the Pleasures of Being an Elvis Fan;
The New Low-Country Cooking by
Chef Marvin Woods,
The Complete Book on International Adoption: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Your Child by
Dawn Davenport;
CityTripping: a Guide for Nighthawks, Foodies, Culture Vultures, Fashion Fetishist, and the Generally Style-Obsessed by
Tom Dolby, among many others.
She is the agent provocateur of
Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye, a collection of pitching wisdom from leading literary agents. Actively building her client list, she likes books that have a clear benefit for readers' lives in categories of food, travel, lifestyle, home arts, beauty, wisdom, relationships, parenting, and fresh looks which might be at issues, life challenges or popular culture. For compelling reads in faction, memoir and femoir, she like to be transported to a world rarely or newly observed; for fiction, she wants to be compelled and propelled...
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When writers ask me what I might be looking for in a client I always say 'fire in the belly' because as a writer you must always be an impassioned ambassador for your book. To succeed as an author you must find it joyful to share your work with potential readers. It’s comparable to running for office; you must ask for their votes. Today’s authors need marketing moxie more than ever before.""How did I choose this career? Well, here is a a vivid moment for me: I went to hippie school in Greenwich Village...(we really did sit cross-legged and sing kumbaya)…and one day the third-grade teacher singled me out, and asked me to read my story aloud to the entire class. From that day to this I have believed creativity and expressiveness are the most exciting things. . .especially when shared."
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