Katie spent 25 years at HarperCollins in a variety of roles including Group Rights Director, Managing Director of Collins non-fiction and senior positions in William Collins and 4th Estate, Fiction and Children’s. She was Executive Producer on Channel 4’s 2019 critically acclaimed TV adaptation of the much loved classic The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr which was awarded an international Emmy. Her extensive and varied experience across a range of publishing and rights management, puts her in a unique position to be able to work with an author to offer representation and guidance across all media and in all markets.
She is looking for authors in both non-fiction and fiction. In non-fiction she is looking for experts and journalists who have something new to say about their areas of expertise, in almost any subject area but particularly lifestyle, current affairs, health and sport. She would love to find a smart true crime book and books about female and family issues are always of interest, particularly those that put women at the heart of things.
In terms of fiction, her interests are broad and varied. She is looking for high concept and hooky crime and thriller (loves a good courtroom drama like Presumed Innocent) and would also love to see a commercial locked room thriller like Knives Out (if it involved the rich and famous behaving badly that’s even better.) She is also on the hunt for emotional uplit and bookclub books with big issues and memorable characters with immersive settings. She enjoys historical fiction, particularly if it is about a real person previously forgotten, or someone associated with a more famous figure and she loves a good romance (spicy or not).
She is committed to increasing representation and accessibility in the industry and served as a judge on Owned Voices Novel Award in 2021 and is a mentor for Black Girl Writers. Some recent favourite fiction reads include: Everything’s Fine by Cecilia Rabess. Prima Facie by Suzie Miller, Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan, Kala by Colin Walsh, The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargreave and Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld. Some favourite non-fiction reads include Femina by Janina Ramirez, Ask Not by Maureen Doherty and Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn.
Please don’t send fantasy or sci-fi, or any children’s fiction or picture books.
