Agent Panel: Tina Dubois & Kirsten Hall
Our agents panel this year covered what you need to know to succeed in 2018 and beyond. Tina Dubois Tina Dubois an agent at ICM partners, where she specializes in middle grade and young adult fiction. Her client list includes Laurel Snyder, Anne Ursu, and Laura Ruby, authors of books that have been gilded with award stickers (and possibly cat hair). Kirsten Hall is president of Catbird, a children's literary and illustration agency. She's also an author, and her first trade picture book was a 2014 New York Times Notable. Kristen Hall Tina has been at ICM for 15 years, and she's based in the NY office. Though most of her clients do MG and YA, she has picture books and chapter books. She loves magic, especially dangerous magic ... the kind you think is your friend but isn't. She loves contemporary YA that acknowledges the complexity of teenage lives and doesn't offer easy solutions. (Brandy Colbert's books are an example of these.) She's also looking for stu...
