About Katie
Katie is a literary agent at The Ampersand Agency. She joined the agency in 2025, after training as a literary agent under Arabella Stein at the Bright Agency. Her earlier experience includes marketing, bookselling and advertising. She also appeared as a contributor on the Graham Norton Book Club for six seasons. Katie represents authors and author-illustrators across a range of genres and age ranges.
What Katie is looking for
In adult fiction, Katie is drawn to SFF, speculative fiction and horror. For children's books she specialises in middle grade, YA and crossover fiction, along with graphic novels across all age ranges. The agency does not handle poetry, short stories, self-help books or illustrated books for young children.
Submissions
At the time of checking (November 2026), The Ampersand Agency welcomes fiction and non-fiction submissions in the genres listed on its website. Send the first three chapters or about 50 pages, with a brief synopsis and some biographical details. If emailing, attach chapters and synopsis as Word documents rather than PDFs, and do not paste text into the email body. Do not use WeTransfer, Dropbox or similar services. There is no reading fee, and the agency does not normally advise on rejected material. The email address is on the agency's website.
Compiled from The Ampersand Agency Ltd.'s own website. Check there for the latest before you submit.