Literary Agent
Howard Morhaim Literary Agency
I’ve been a literary agent since 2006, and there’s nothing I haven’t seen in this business. My clients include New York Times bestsellers and National bestseller like Alix E. Harrow, Madeleine Roux, Claudia Aguirre, Joy Callaway, and Lee Mandelo, as well as award winning authors like Bobby Finger, Isaac Fellman, Danny Lavery, Trung Le Nguyen, and many more.
Author
Fiction, Non-Fiction, and More
My work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, Catapult, Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, Bustle and many more. My first book, Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life is out now form Simon Element. In 2026, Sourcebooks will publish my debut picture books Pay Attention to Me.
Newsletter
Agents & Books
In 2019, I started a newsletter as a way to get publishing information out there for writers to learn, understand, and apply to their work and careers. Publishing is an opaque business, and it’s my goal to teach writers at all levels what it means to get and be published. You can read it at agentsandbooks.com.
How to write
and publish
a book
Write Through It is a candid, actionable guide to navigating the rollercoaster ride of writing and publishing, both on and off the page. Literary agent and author Kate McKean has been educating authors and demystifying publishing for years in her popular newsletter Agents & Books, and now, in these pages, she walks writers of all genres through every stage of the writing and publishing process and its accompanying emotional moments. From the uncertainty of knowing when you should stop fiddling with your book and start pitching to agents to how to deal with the sting of rejection and the elation (and fear) of getting a book deal, Write Through It covers it all.
"A must have for all aspiring authors! Kate McKean has written a clear, helpful, and encouraging book about the writing and publishing process; she manages to be realistic and detailed, as well as comforting and reassuring."
— Jasmine Guillory, author of the New York Times bestseller The Proposal.
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