Flatiron Books | April 2020

Kathleen Ortiz is a Literary Agent who has over a decade of experience in the industry, both as an agent and international licensing expert. She focuses on brands for adults and children that bring humor and joy and inspire others in life -- a visual component is a huge bonus.

For both fiction and non-fiction, Kathleen loves looking beyond the book – while the story is most important, she likes to find other opportunities for her clients to help expand their platform and compliment their books. She’s worked in licensing everything from stationery to calendars to greeting cards and more.

While she’s based in the West Coast, her skymiles argue that she lives in NYC half the year.

New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc. is a passionate agency with a relentless focus on building our clients’ careers. Our approach is big picture, offering a one-stop shop built without silos and access to a variety of services including international sales, film and television, and branding resources for all clients. Our aim is to challenge conformity and re-imagine the marketplace while equipping our clients with the tools necessary to navigate an evolving landscape and succeed.

Liz Climo
Catana Comics, #1 NYT bestselling author
Huda Fahmy
Dan Haring
Adrienne Hedger (Hedger Humor)
Sarah Marino
Jaime Reed
Procrastination.com
TheDadLab
Genevieve Santos
Susie Yi

Selection of Recent Sales
for a more complete list of recent sales, please see the PM database

#1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Catana Chetwynd's IN LOVE & PAJAMAS: A COLLECTION OF COMICS ABOUT BEING YOURSELF TOGETHER, just in time where we've all seen an unprecedented amount of our significant others in pajamas, to Patty Rice at Andrews McMeel Publishing, for publication in February 2021, by Kathleen Ortiz at New Leaf Literary & Media (world English).

Stephanie K. Wright's PER MY LAST EMAIL: CURIOUS WORDS AND CLEVER PHRASES TO REINVIGORATE YOUR WORK EMAILS, MEETINGS AND CONVERSATIONS, a humorous send up of stale corporate lingo and an entertaining guide to reinvigorating your workplace communication, providing new and new-to-you phrases for your hundredth "just following up" email of the week, to Allison Adler at Andrews McMeel Publishing, for publication in fall 2021, by Kathleen Ortiz at New Leaf Literary & Media (world English).

SWEET DREAMS!, book 12 in the Daisy Dreamer series, illustrated by Genevieve Santos, to Jeffrey Salane at Little Simon, for publication in fall 2020, by Kathleen Ortiz at New Leaf Literary & Media (world).

Web comic artist Liz Climo's YOU'RE MUM, a humorous story about the challenges and joys of motherhood, to Lydia Good at Harper UK, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2020, by Kathleen Ortiz at New Leaf Literary & Media.

@4amshower creator Guy Kopsombut's EVERYDAY SMILES: FINDING JOY IN EVERY MOMENT, part self-help journal, part comic collection, offering moments of joy to the reader with space to create their own art and words of inspiration, to Patty Rice at Andrews McMeel, at auction, for publication in November 2020, by Kathleen Ortiz at New Leaf Literary & Media (world English).

Genevieve Santos's I YOGA YOU, a debut board book which celebrates the love a parent shares with their child while also teaching simple yoga poses, to Jeffrey Salane at Little Simon, in an exclusive submission, by Kathleen Ortiz at New Leaf Literary & Media (world).

Former illustrator for The Simpsons and web comic star Liz Climo's YOU'RE MOM: A LITTLE BOOK FOR MOTHERS (AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM), a humorous story about the challenges and joys of motherhood, along with YOU'RE DAD, a follow-up about fatherhood, to Sarah Murphy at Flatiron Books, in an eight-bidder auction, in a two-book deal, by Kathleen Ortiz at New Leaf Literary & Media (NA).

Wall Street Journal bestselling author and illustrator, whose debut LITTLE MOMENTS OF LOVE has 215,000 copies in print in its first year Catana Chetwynd's SNUG: A COLLECTION OF COMICS ABOUT DATING YOUR BEST FRIEND, to Patty Rice at Andrews McMeel Publishing, in an exclusive submission, for publication in February 2020 (world English).

Instagram artist for @yesimhotinthis Huda Fahmy's THAT CAN BE ARRANGED: A MUSLIM LOVE STORY, in which the author explores, as a Muslim, the set guidelines for meeting and marrying a future spouse; outlining the story of her relationship with love: her first crush, her first suitor, her first proposal, and eventually her first love, to Patty Rice at Andrews McMeel, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in spring 2020, by Kathleen Ortiz at New Leaf Literary & Media (world English).

See PM database for partial listing.

Foreign Rights: Veronica Grijalva vgrijalva@newleafliterary.com

Film/TV: Pouya Shahbazian, pouya@newleafliterary.com

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See our web site for a full list.

http://www.newleafliterary.com/submissions/