About me
Kristin established Nelson Literary Agency, LLC, in 2002 and over the last two decades, she has represented over fifty-five New York Times bestselling titles and many USA Today bestsellers. Her clients include Shelby Van Pelt, Hugh Howey, Jamie Ford, Marie Lu, Stacey Lee, Ally Carter, Josh Malerman, Richard Chizmar, Swati Teerdhala, Sherry Thomas, Scott Reintgen.
Malerman’s Bird Box is a Netflix movie starring Sandra Bullock and Trevante Rhodes. In 2023, the first season released of Howey’s Silo on Apple+ TV based on his novels Wool, Shift, and Dust. Season 2 will release in fall 2024. Her goal as an agent is simple: she wants every client of hers to make a living solely from writing and 95% of her clients do just that.
She is currently looking for literary/commercial novels that tackle timely issues or complicated relationship dynamics, high concept, character-driven novels with one foot squarely in genre, absolutely delightful and emotional engaging novels that can be read over and over again, character-driven novels in the thriller, speculative or science fiction and fantasy realm, historical novels that feature a narrative voice and story that is under-represented in history, young adult novels that pack a serious or a delightful emotional punch.
When she is not busy selling books, Kristin plays tennis, pickle ball, and golf. She also enjoys playing Bridge (where she is the youngest person in her club), and can often be found hiking in the mountains with her husband.
