Savannah Brooks (on medical leave)

Literary agent at @ktliterary (opinions my own) // MFA '19 // I believe books make people better people // COVID long-hauler & disabled✌🏼

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

Want to know my perennial (and yet also new! and improved!) #MSWL? Check it out here: https://t.co/oBRnXuYojO

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

Query tip: fall is a SUPER busy sub time for agents—we usually spend summer prepping manuscripts to send to editors—so if it feels like it takes longer to hear back on queries it probably does. No worries, though! As soon as we sell those manuscripts, we're back looking for more.

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

Want to talk about your project one-on-one? I still have a good amount of availability on my September @MSWLMA consultation calendar!

https://t.co/yAZerBUQiM

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

First 24 hours of being opened to queries logged 148 queries 😅 I love it! Keep 'em coming!

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

I closed to queries for a while, but I'm baaaack! A quick #MSWL note to celebrate While kidlit will always have my heart, I'm actively trying to build up the adult side of my list—so if you've got thrillers, romcoms, horror, spec and contemp fiction, I wanna see!

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

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[Rita Feinstein (FOURTH DIMENSION is out now!!!) @RitaFeinstein]

🪐COVER REVEAL🪐

My soul left my body when I saw Emma Hardy's cover design for MEET ME IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION (@PageStreetKids 2024), and I'm so excited to share it with the world!

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

@keenanjones83 @JYoGarver 🖤

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

@ShadiKafi 🖤🖤🖤

Give yourself one right back!

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

I’ve come up with a million terrible nose puns, none of which are fit for Shadi’s ode to Persian noses and their ancestry of scent 🖤 One of the best parts of being an agent is all the incredible things I learn through my authors’ writing. The dream job for this nerd 🤓

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

@JYoGarver 🖤🖤🖤

[Rita Feinstein (FOURTH DIMENSION is out now!!!) @RitaFeinstein]

Book mail from @JYoGarver to brighten my week ❤️

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

It’s a good day when it’s Project-Shoutin Day! I adore the complexity, humanity, and 90s and 2000s nostalgia of AGAIN. Stories that look at the messy marriage between love and grief are some of my favorites, and this beauty is no exception. I can’t wait for the world to read it!!

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

Looking to jumpstart your summer writing project? I still have spaces left for @MSWLMA consultations next week and would love to hear all about it!

https://t.co/WgOuOhMO7J

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

Walking around the lake each morning, I’ve gotten to know a lot of fellow walkers by sight, but my favorite by far is the guy who smokes a cigar while picking up trash each day.

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

Happy Memorial Day to all the vets and servicewomen and men and out, but especially to my sexy cat daddy 🖤

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

The sweetest bookmark 🖤

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

@chavelaque My client Brett Brooks would be amazing for this! He has a huge range of animal and historical styles:

https://t.co/D8ZciJv2Qv

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

@chels_of_harper @JayMoneWrites There are absolutely professional writers, but that thread is analyzing the way querying writers analyze agent responses. If writers are still querying, chances are they aren’t yet professionals, so professional writers aren’t the audience.

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

@LeahKonen Then you’re a professional writer. If you make a reliable income from it, it’s a profession. That thread is to analyze the way agents respond to querying writers, who are typically not yet professional writers.

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

@rkwashburn Before making a judgement call, it’s worth asking if you were the primary target for this. If it’s not new information, instead of assuming I’m being patronizing, consider whether this will be helpful information for someone else.

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

@cardiganwinters @JayMoneWrites passion changes to profession—it looks like you hit it already—and the thread was aimed at writers who haven’t made that switch yet.

[Savannah Brooks (on medical leave) @SBLitAgent]

@cardiganwinters @JayMoneWrites I’m honestly just trying to understand. Yeah, if you’re contracted and don’t deliver work, your profession as an author will be hurt. But we were talking about how querying writers interpret agent passes, so professional writers aren’t the audience. There is a point where