HeyJaredStephanie Katz
Hey, y’all! I’m Stephanie. I’m a literary agent, ghostwriter, screenwriter, AI enthusiast, and owner of GiraffeLight Media Agency, a boutique literary agency based in New Orleans, Louisiana. I’ll be sharing industry tips and publishing secrets.
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Aug 19, 2026
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Publisher Open Submissions: Open Calls or Open Season? (opens the original)
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Hey y’all, My instagram feed has been inundated with open calls from independent publishers giving authors the opportunity to query manuscripts without an agent, and these always make me SO nervous. Not because I fear that my livelihood is on the line (that’s just a given of being an agent!), but because authors often have zero idea how to read a publishing contract and know if they’re being offered a good deal. They see the open calls as open season—their opportunity to cut out the middleman an
Cultures & Cocktail (opens the original)
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Ireland is one of those countries I never get sick of reading about… or visiting. Seriously, it’s on my MSWL - Anything set in Ireland or Antarctica, will rank high in my asking for more info about. I fell in love with Ireland, like so many people, when Riverdance broke onto the scene in 1995 (if memory serves)1, and dreamed of becoming an Irish Dancer (and also an Olympic equestrian show jumper? The 90s were a vibe). I have Irish danced on and off throughout my life, and even
I just broke my own agenting rule (four times this month!) (opens the original)
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Hey y’all. Oops I did it again. And again. And again. And again again. Four times this month I’ve broken my own rule about memoir audience and requested full manuscripts from authors with low or no social media. I know, I know! You’re over there asking, Steph, what were you thinking? I’m glad you asked! Because I actually had really good reasons and this goes to show publishing lives in the gray areas because the hard-fast rules can always be bent under the right conditions. Well… okay, maybe no
The Agent Log #2 (opens the original)
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7:45am local time. My alarm goes off but, still recovering from jetlag after a 36hr journey home from Oslo to Reykjavik to JFK to MSY, I snoozed until 9am. One of the luxuries of self-employment, my hours are flexible. 9:10am. I read the trades, Publisher’s Weekly, Publisher’s Marketplace, Edelweiss, and Klopotek to see what deals have been made, who’s been promoted or switched houses/imprints, what the major headlines in publishing are, what genres are trending, which genres are cooling off, if
Your book is SO mid(list), and that’s not a bad thing! (opens the original)
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Hey y’all,I spend an unreasonable amount of my life looking for comp titles. When I’m getting ready to take a manuscript on submission, I’m digging through Publishers Marketplace, publisher catalogs, amazon, book tracker, recent releases, sales information from trade journals where I can get it, and whatever other industry rabbit hole helps me answer one deceptively simple question: where does this book actually sit in the market?Subscribe now<p style="te
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