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Kim Carson Bodie
Susan Schulman Literary Agency
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Kim joined Susan Schulman in 2025 after years of working thematically and geographically scattered jobs that mostly involved taking words out of the air and putting them on paper. She is a former journalist, university creative writing instructor, CutBank Fiction Editor, and Coffee House Press Editorial Intern. Kim is interested in reading adult commercial, upmarket, and literary fiction, horror (especially queer horror and including horror romance), slipstream, bookclub-with-an-edge, creative and narrative nonfiction, non-western history (especially mythology and folklore), pop culture, essay (especially on ecological themes), true crime, and (very) select memoir—particularly projects that feature strong voice, experimental structure, bold risks, and big swings. Give her the weird, the toothy, and the audacious. Kim gravitates toward themes of adolescence, monstrosity, class, innocence, memory, healing, freakishness, community, otherness, identity, the body, the natural world, and the concept of home. Kim received her MFA from the University of Montana, where you can still find her gathering dirt under her fingernails, between the pages of her books, and in the cracks of her computer keyboard. She can usually be spotted alongside her dog, Townes Van Dog. Find her on Instagram @kimreadsbooksforwork. Please keep in mind: I do not represent YA, MG, or children’s books. I’m open to select NA. I welcome #OwnVoices projects and am particularly interested in representing authors from diverse backgrounds. I need a book to have a sense of humor. I will read anything that takes place at a carnival. Please send me weird westerns. I am looking with special interest for illustrated mythology books from underrepresented societies. I’d love to read more horror set in very cold or very hot places. Boats/ships at sea are a great place for things to take an unexpected turn. I like when characters (especially female ones) are very tall. (I am very tall.) I’m a little bit obsessed with true survival stories. I lived in Australia for years and would love to have Aussie authors on my list. Memoir MUST branch out from a unique focal point that guides the structure and themes. I am not interested in broad overviews. I’m not the best fit for high fantasy or other speculative projects without grounded elements, in addition to pure romance or thrillers, with the exception of projects that use suspense or genre as a tool to examine surprising social, scientific, cultural, or political elements of the world at large. Please check my profile on the agency website to see if I am open to queries before submitting. Queries submitted outside my query windows will be deleted without being read. I am USUALLY open for queries the first full work week of the month. Please read the following before submitting your work. For fiction submissions, please send a description that will help us understand your project. Include a brief synopsis and the first ten pages, which should be pasted
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