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Kim Lionetti

An agent with BookEnds Literary Agency (see other agents at this agency).

About

As the first literary agent to charm BookEnds into hiring her, Kim has been an integral part of growing the agency, along with her clients' careers. Having started on the editorial side, Kim brings her knowledge of both sides of the publishing business to help strategize authors’ futures. Having worked with many bestsellers and award-winners, she loves the thrill of that first offer call to a debut author as much as the excitement of seeing a client hit the New York Times list for the first time.

Kim's reading obsession began in middle school when she raided her grandmother's collection of Phyllis Whitney books and since then she's surrounded herself with books in virtually every job she's held (with the exception of her awkward pleated khaki phase at Blockbuster.) Her tastes have always been deeply rooted in commercial storytelling, from her years as a soap opera aficionado, Nora Roberts binge reader and lover of every form of romantic comedy.

Now, with a client list including women's fiction, mystery, young adult and romance, Kim enjoys working on a wide range of books. Above all else, her goal is to see every reader from every background see themselves in stories with happily-ever-afters.

Country of Publication

United States

Professional Associations

Member of AALA

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Now, with a client list including women's fiction, mystery, young adult and romance, Kim enjoys working on a wide range of books. She gravitates toward commercial, unputdownable reads with characters she can get wrapped up in. Currently, she's especially eager to find genre-bending stories that blur the lines between book club fiction and romance/suspense/magical realism/horror. She loves both historical and contemporary romance and is always in the mood for a good rom com, as long as it brings something fresh and unique to the market.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults, Young adults.

Genres:

General Subgenre: Women's Fiction
Mystery/Crime Open to all/most Subgenres
Romance Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Contemporary, Historical, Romantic Comedy

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: QueryTracker.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026

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