Kathleen (Kate) Boggs Email & Phone Number

New York, New York

Rights negotiation: submitting manuscripts, marketing materials, and publicity updates for partners’ consideration; negotiating/finalizing terms of domestic and foreign rights licenses for the Writers House adult list; gathering market research to evaluate offers; conducting auctions with multiple potential partners; reading and evaluating manuscripts; providing input on potential rights valueMarket reporting: providing internal reports for the agency on domestic and foreign markets; identifying how those markets may be changing and whether there may be new opportunities to explore (and adapting contractual language as needed to reflect these changes); seeking out and providing introductions for potential new partnersBacklist research: identifying, submitting, and negotiating new offers for titles with potential for new licensing in the domestic and foreign markets, as well as ensuring all initial licenses are up to date and not in need of renewal; ensuring that no opportunities have been missedFair preparation, attendance, and rights guides: researching/gathering materials to prepare for London and Frankfurt Book Fairs; taking meetings to pitch titles, to network, and to build relationships with partners, co-agents, and scouts; creating intricately designed rights guides and materials; creating and leading two annual virtual webinar presentations for 250+ foreign colleagues in lieu of fair attendance (when in a pandemic)Contract review and execution: ensuring timely receipt and accurate review of draft agreements; boilerplate negotiation when entering into agreements with new partners; tracking throughout routing for signaturesOffice/administrative support: investigating permissions clearances for licensees; fielding rights inquiries; tracking payments and statements; making travel arrangements; routing covers, title changes and narrators for approval; ensuring all databases are up-to-date; providing general author care and other day-to-day tasks as needed

• Foreign rights: submitting manuscripts and negotiating licenses for select frontlist and backlist titles on the Avery, Portfolio, Putnam lists and under all imprints of Berkley Publishing Group• Large print rights: submitting manuscripts and negotiating licenses for frontlist and backlist titles on the Dutton, Putnam,and Portfolio lists• Audio rights: submitting manuscripts and negotiating licenses for backlist titles under all imprints of Berkley PublishingGroup• Office/administrative support: assisting the Senior Vice President, Foreign Rights Director, and the Associate Rights Director with day-to-day operations, including fielding rights inquiries, liaising with editors to track manuscript delivery, writing and sending submission letters, routing covers for approval, tracking payments, tracking contracts, tracking and ensuring delivery of finished copies, arranging book club purchase orders, representing the Subsidiary Rights department at editorial and publicity meetings, and other back-end tasks as needed• Rights guides: researching and gathering rights information for both domestic and foreign seasonal rights guides, and preparing rights guides and shipping materials for major book fairs (London, Frankfurt, Guadalajara)• Training: teaching new assistants and the department’s summer intern about the company and Subsidiary Rights in both general and specific terms, including training on various databases and systems and instructing on various administrative tasks• Production files: negotiating file fees, providing schedules and managing file delivery, andinvoicing for fee payment• Scheduling: organizing meetings with foreign publishers and guests• Correspondence: facilitating communication between our authors and their foreign publishers, providing up-to-date publicity and marketing information to licensees, providing up-to-date publication dates and schedule changes to licensees, and collecting international sales figures

Greater New York City Area

Alexandria, Virginia

- Editorial support: extensive copyediting, proofreading, fact-checking of full manuscripts, marketing materials, press releases, jacket copy, etc.- Office/administrative support: assisting the Managing Editor with the day-to-day operations of a fast-paced association publishing office, including copying, scanning, filing, printing, email correspondence, maintaining inventory, data entry, maintaining and uploading photographs and images, etc.- Review coordination: communicating with authors and reviewers- Contract tracking: communicating with vendors and ensuring correctness of records- Graphic design: providing feedback on page and cover design- Finance: conducting purchase orders, submitting requisitions for approval, managing and processing invoices, filing and maintaining thorough records of bills and invoices- Copyright: filing for Library of Congress CIP and copyright data prior to publication

Alexandria, Virginia

- Editorial support: proofreading, fact-checking of full manuscripts, marketing materials, press releases, jacket copy, etc.- Office/administrative support- Review coordination: communicating with authors and reviewers- Contract tracking: communicating with vendors and ensuring correctness of records

Sarasota, Florida Area

- Script evaluation: read and evaluated over 250 scripts for consideration as part of a fast-paced literary office that receives over 500 scripts annually- Script library organization: inventoried and catalogued 1000+ playscripts, improved library database to check books out to employees and patrons- Research: implemented extensive research and administrative support for the development of FST's new projects and productions- Event planning: assisted preparation and operations for theater and community events- Customer service: performed ticket and subscription sales and exchanges as part of FST's Box Office

Greater New York City Area

- Office/administrative support- Event planning: assisted preparations for the 25th Anniversary Gala- Membership enrollment: accepted and enrolled applicants for the Greenseats youth ticket discount program

Burke, Virginia

Leesburg, Virginia

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, General

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Sigma Honor Society Lambda Iota Tau Honor Society Alpha Mu Sigma Service Fraternity (Secretary.

High School

Activities and Societies: - Girl Scouts of America - Technical/Formal dance training and competition (jazz, tap, ballet.