Kate Rogers
KO Media Management
My Manuscript Wish List®
Kate Rogers is a University of Washington graduate with a double major in English and Cinema Media Studies. She has worked in customer service at Vroman’s Bookstore in her hometown of Pasadena, California, and as the Assistant Director for Communications and Marketing for Stevens Court Community Council in Seattle.
Kate loves stories with graphic/illustrated elements or multimodal components. All ages (Children’s, MG, YA, and Adult) welcome, as long as there is a visual component! Genres include humor, horror/thriller (bonus if it’s entry level for a younger audience!), romance, light sci-fi, light fantasy (not currently open to high-fantasy of any kind), contemporary realistic fiction, and narrative non-fiction. She is interested in diverse, character-driven narratives that subvert familiar tropes or conventions. Bonus points if your story includes non-conventional, interactive formats.
Fun facts about me:
I balance my time between Seattle, WA and Pasadena, CA.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to query@komediamanagement.com
Submissions to KOMM
We are excited to receive queries from authors, illustrators and content creators looking for representation of their stories, art and IP. Please take a look at our agents’ individual bios to see who might be the best fit.
We ask you to query only one agent at KOMM at query@komediamanagement.com with the subject line “Query for <agent name>: Title”. Please paste your query and samples only, as attachments will not be opened:
– Authors: first 5 pages of text (if a picture book, please paste the entire text)
– Illustrators: link to portfolio
– Content creators: link to portfolio
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If you don’t hear from us within 4 weeks of receipt, we are unable to pursue your query further. Due to the volume of queries received and our commitment to our clients’ careers, we are unable to personally reply to every query. We are a collaborative group and we will pass queries to each other if we feel someone else is a better fit.
Please note we do not use third-party query management systems and we do not accept physical queries. All queries sent via postal mail will be discarded.
As an agency, we are not open to screenplay queries at this time.
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
Accessible Literary Fiction, Adult Horror, Adult Rom Com, Art history, Author-Illustrator, California, Category Romance, Character -Driven History, Character-Driven Horror, Character-driven SciFi, Children's and Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction, Commercial MG, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial YA, Commercial adult fiction, Commercial and Literary, Complicated Relationships, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary YA, Cozy mysteries, Crime & Thriller, Crime Fiction, Cross-genre, Dark Humor, Detective, Diverse Protagonists, Ensemble Casts, Epistolary, Experimental, Feminist Horror, Feminist SF/F, Gothic Horror, Graphic Novels (for all ages), Horror Comedy, Humor, Illustration (for all ages), LGBT YA, LGBTQ Contemporary, LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi, LGBTQ+ rom coms, MG, MG/YA, Multiple POV, Neurodiversity, New Adult, Noir, Occult Horror, Paranormal Horror, Rom-com, Romance, Short Stories, Thriller, True Crime, Women's Fiction, action-packed graphic novels, anti-capitalist sci fi, body horror, book club fiction, campus novel, chapter books, character-focused fiction, character-focused stories, comedy, coming of age, commercial middle grade, contemporary, contemporary MG, contemporary women's fiction, court intrigue, crossover adult, diverse, gender, horror, interactive, narrative non-fiction, queer horror, queer narratives, realistic fiction
I’d like the next…
My favorites include…
Recent reads: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, The Scott Pilgrim Series by Brian Lee O’Malley (again). I am currently reading Not Forever But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk.
I love the use of multi-media formats like e-mail, text message, graphic novel portions, etc., like the use of PowerPoint in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, the use of re-purposed photographs in Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, or the use of spot art inThe Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch.
Current/past TV favorites: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall, Gravity Falls, The Midnight Gospel. I am currently re-watching Twin Peaks.
Recent film favorites: Everything Everywhere All At Once, the Boy and the Heron, Midsommar.
Comfort movie(s): Harold and Maude. Anything made by Studio Ghibli!
