Spend an hour with Stephanie Kim, Literary Agent and Meredith Barnes, Business Development Manager from New Leaf Literary & Media, one of the most dynamic and exciting literary agencies around. We will structure this as an AMA so you will have the chance to ask Stephanie and Meredith any and all of your questions about agenting, agencies, marketing, books, and more.
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New Leaf Literary & Media is a full service management and representation firm. Established in 2012 from a boutique literary agency New Leaf has since morphed into a one-stop shop for writers and artists, with over seventy books on the New York Times bestseller lists and nine films and TV shows produced, including CBS Films’ sleeper hit, The DUFF, the Divergent series, Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner American Honey, LOVE, SIMON and Netflix’s SHADOW & BONE.
Stephanie Kim is a literary agent with more than a decade of experience in publicity and marketing across the publishing, tech, and media industries. She began her career as an assistant publicist at William Morrow/HarperCollins where she cut her teeth on high-profile campaigns for Neil Gaiman, Laura Lippman, Wiley Cash, and many others. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Stephanie led publicity for three consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers: What If? and Thing Explainer by xkcd creator Randall Munroe, and Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss. Some additional highlights include working on Gabourey Sidibe’s memoir This Is Just My Face, Chinelo Okparanta’s Lambda Literary award-winning debut novel Under the Udala Trees, and comic artist Ariel Shrag’s quirky, irreverent coming-of-age love story, Adam.
Meredith Barnes has been a publicist, marketer, digital and social media strategist, and many other things. She heads up business development at New Leaf Literary & Media, including internal client development and new business acquisition in the podcast and audio original, live event, and film and television spaces, as well as other areas.