Stephanie Katz is a literary agent with GiraffeLight Media Agency.
Stephanie is an accomplished screenwriter, ghostwriter, and literary agent with a passion for crafting stories that resonate across genres and mediums. With a ten-year career spanning film and publishing, she has built a reputation for delivering compelling narratives that balance creative vision with commercial viability.
Stephanie has written on such films as The Blind and Average Joe; co-produced and wrote the microbudget thriller Resignation coming early 2027, and represents talented and bestselling authors from around the US and the world.
With a PhD in English Literature specializing in Narratology and the mechanics of narrative structure from The University of Birmingham in the UK, an MA from Arizona State University in film studies, and an undergraduate degree in Journalism from Southeastern Louisiana University, Katz has the industry knowledge in addition to lived experience in the entertainment industry and has made strong contacts in both the film and publishing worlds.
As a literary agent, she champions emerging and established writers, guiding projects from conception to release date and beyond. With a keen eye for market trends and an unwavering commitment to her clients’ artistic goals, Katz bridges the gap between art and industry, ensuring that every story she represents has the best possible opportunity to find its target audience.
Our Fiction Wish List:
Overall Vibes: Find new angles to beloved genres, characters, and tropes. Think outside the box. Our tastes skew more literary or bookclub/upmarket that commercial. Give us complex multi-dimensional characters and plots that are tightly constructed but not overly agenda-driven.
Smart comedy/dark comedy – think How To Get To Heaven from Belfast
Traum-com – give us something that shouldn’t be funny and make it funny with lots of heart.
Octogenarian escapades – think Jonas Jonasson
Genre twists
Classic gothic literature – think Daphne DuMaurier
Contemporary women’s fiction – give me relatable, complex, deeply flawed, deeply funny, and deeply human women who grow and evolve in dynamic and challenging ways.
Messy family dramas that also make me laugh and bring healing
Coming of age stories from female protagonists
Road trip novels not just set in America
Contemporary war dramas (post 1910) particularly with female protagonists.
Cold war or contemporary espionage thrillers with female protagonists or Slow Horses type wry humor
Fantasy – high fantasy, low fantasy, dragons, romantasy that is plot heavy, New Adult fantasy, satirical fantasy
Speculative fiction – give me your take on social and political issues in unexpected ways – think Emily St. John Mandel and N.K. Jemisin
Circuses, carnivals, and abandoned theme park settings – think Night Circus, Water for Elephants and Fantasticland.
Magical realism
Alternate realities/parallel universes – think if Christopher Nolan wrote a novel
Temporal twist – give me nonlinear, braided, circular, and antimimetic novels that subvert causality – think The Kingdoms, Crossings, The Rise & Fall of DODO
Mysteries – female protagonists, fish out of water sleuths, amateur sleuths that fail comically – think Caimh McDonnell and Slow Horses
International locales – take me to interesting places and broaden my world views to new societies
LGBTQ fiction that is character driven, not agenda driven.
Unreliable narrators
Anything set in Ireland or Antarctica
Our Nonfiction Wish List:
Business leadership
Macro-economics
Investing
Personal development
Thematic memoirs
Culinary nonfiction (excluding cookbooks)
Narrative nonfiction
Narratology
Self-help that is strongly researched
Psychology
Living with AI
Inspirational nonfiction
Christian living that is well researched and open minded
Intersection of science and faith
Overall Vibes: Well researched and focused theses that are easy for readers to apply so they can better their quality of life.
Social justice topics
Overall wellness
Books about time and temporality
Travel literature
Landmark legal cases
Intelligence and whistleblowers
Genocide & war crimes
Survivors and activists in war-torn nations or brutal regimes
War narratives post 1900 from marginalized POVs
Investigative journalism
Ukraine and Russian relations
Animal narratives
We are NOT currently seeking:
MANUSCRIPTS THAT DO NOT MEET THESE WORD COUNTS WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE REJECTED.
Novels less than 80k words
Novellas
Nonfiction less than 70k words
Currently, we are not interested in the following genres:
Children’s books
Middle Grade books
General YA
Graphic Novels/Anime/Manga
Poetry
Novellas and Novelettes
Short stories or anthologies
Overly commercial Fiction
Romance
Romantasy that is heavy on sex and light on plot
Civil War era fiction
Hard Sci-Fi/Outer Space Odysseys/Aliens
Steampunk fantasy
Cozy mysteries
Cozy romance
Horror/Slashers/Serial Killers
Anything occult or paranormal related
True Crime
Political Nonfiction
History and Military Nonfiction
STEM Nonfiction
Memoirs if less than 100k followers
Faith fluff
Essays
Biographies/Autobiographies
Art books/craft books
Parenting/Family
Cookbooks/Lifestyle books
We do not represent screenwriters or playwrights