Katharine Sands, a literary agent in New York City, is a frequent and popular speaker for writer conferences from New York to Hawaii to Paris. Her new book, Making the Perfect Pitch, includes articles by top New York agents. She is a literary agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, representing a wide range of authors in a broad range of categories-from literary fiction, chick lit, and dysfiction to faction to nonfiction (popular culture, entertainment, personal growth, leisure activities) to home arts (lifestyle, cookbooks, home design) to the more eclectic (travel, humor, and spirituality). She has represented the literary estate of Norman Wexler, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Saturday Night Fever, XTC: SongStories; Under the Hula Moon by Jocelyn Fuji (as co-agent); The Tao of Beauty by model Helen Lee; Make Up, Don't Break Up by Oprah guest Dr.Bonnie Eaker Weil, among many others. Katharine has been a guest speaker on writing and publishing topics for Poets and Writers, The American Society of Journalists and Authors, New York University and the New York State Council on the Arts. Her book reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Book Review.

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