Katelyn Hales

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Permanently Closed: This agent is no longer accepting queries (June 2020). We provide the following information as an archive.

About

Katelyn Hales is a Junior Agent at the Robin Straus Agency. She joined the agency in 2015 after internships at Writers House, and W. W. Norton & Company. Katelyn works alongside Robin and is also actively building her own list of authors. She is acquiring both adult fiction and nonfiction. Katelyn loves character driven science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. She's drawn to the relationship between humans and technology, strong protagonists with voice and heart, and complex world building. At the moment, she's most interested in seeing submissions that tackle characters of all genders in space, non-Western settings, imaginative military SF (like Kameron Hurley's The Stars Are Legion), and she'd love to see sci-fi and fantasy submissions with protagonists who have come of age and are now having adventures in mid-to-later adult life. She's also looking for literary fiction, particularly from underrepresented voices, as well as books on pop culture, current affairs, and narrative non-fiction or memoirs with unique and fresh perspectives.

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Country & Year Established

United States

Agent since 2015

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults.

Genres:

General
Fantasy Open to all/most Subgenres
Science Fiction Open to all/most Subgenres

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Memoir.
Society/Culture: Current events, Pop culture.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026