Katie Grimm

In ~personal~ news!

So excited to share that an excerpt of my novel in progress won the Gulf Coast Prize for Fiction this year!! I'm incredibly grateful to @Gulf_Coast and @rachelhengqp for selecting my work. Thank you! 🙏gulfcoastmag.org/stories/asleep…

This novel is a knockout. Thrilled to be working with the brilliant @BradyMichelleR!!

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Irena Rey is an Indie Next pick—again!! Only six paperbacks a month make it onto this fantastic list compiled by independent booksellers. And since independent booksellers are the smartest people I know about contemporary fiction, this is the highest prize I could possibly get!

Query PSA: I'm finally done reading & requesting all queries from 2024 (yes, I know)! I really do read and respond to every one, and my timing has nothing to do with the quality of your work. So thanks for your submissions...and patience!

I'm so honored and amazed that my novel is one of @WSJ's ten best books of the year. Hundreds of thousands of books are published every year! How could my humble ode to languages and forests be among the best? Thanks to @TobyLichtig for this lovely review. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

HOW TO SEE THE SKY is part hopeful ode and part guidebook to rediscovering the sky and reorienting our lives. Grateful for Paul’s wisdom, vision and trust! 💫

I'm convinced he bought this site to tank it because it was Too Powerful, so sticking it out here until the bitter end (but also claimed my name on the🦋 just in case)

I thought I was braced for this. But I’m down. I’m out. I’m floating in the sea.

@RachelGlickler Sorry! I don't plan on closing ever again so hope it's back soon for you but no rush.

@grimmlit Not loading for me. :/ Thank you!

Thanks to all the queriers for providing me a good distraction this week! To answer your questions: when in (reasonable) doubt, query. The worst that can happen is a form rejection letter...

@RachelGlickler Nope! Is query manager not working?

@grimmlit Are you closed?

Safe to say that after years of receiving death threats and other literal nonsense, I'm not precious about my inbox. Your maybe too genre or commercial novel is just fine!

@LindaWonder Yes, please do send query--thanks!

@grimmlit Okay so if you asked me for a full years back, but life got in the way (hello primary caregiver), should I just redo my query at this point? This was at a pitch conference when you were at a different agency. 😊

Looking for literary to upmarket fiction and narrative non-fiction that’s ambitious and sticky and can momentarily distract from the world’s horrors but ultimately deepens our relationship with ourselves and fortifies us to engage with and fight for humanity.

@italicised Sure! When in doubt, please just query, thanks!

In the midst of our slide into fascism and imminent environmental collapse, it seems like a great time to reopen to queries over on Query Manager #amquerying #MSWL

@Yaffawiya Definitely, thanks!

@ReedReed6 Sure! When in doubt, I always say, go ahead and query, thanks!

@grimmlit Any appetite for a fabulist, contemporary, lit novel that leans very experimental, but definitely hits that ambitious, sticky, human vibe? Would love to query you!

@_gail_guerrero I technically lean literary, but when in doubt, I always say, go ahead and query, thanks!

@grimmlit Oh, hi, sorry if the question is a bother but in MG fantasy, are you open to commercial fiction or you prefer it to be literary/upmarket as well?

Oh and to say the quiet part out loud: if I follow you on Twitter, I want to see your work.