About me
Kelly Dyksterhouse is a literary agent with The Tobias Literary Agency.
She represents picture books, middle grade and young adult, both
fiction and nonfiction, as well as graphic novels. She also represents
illustrators.
For middle grade, she loves books with ensemble
casts, books about good kids making bad decisions and then having to get
themselves out of it, quests and hijinks, spooky stories and mysteries,
and historical novels that feel relevant. For YA, Kelly is looking for
much of the same, and is drawn to books with atmospheric settings, lush
writing, and books with romance threaded through but not the primary
plot.
She's particularly interested in middle grade and young
adult fantasy told from a unique perspective, ghost stories, accessible
sci-fi, magical realism, contemporary stories that challenge
assumptions and ask hard questions, and she will forever be on the
lookout for a good heist.
