Seeking Representation

Thank you for visiting. Tammy Leigh Kahn is an unagented author seeking literary representation. Her novel The Light Behind the Mountain — adult upmarket / book-club fiction with domestic suspense and a lightly speculative element — is currently in revision (Draft 2), and she welcomes inquiries and expressions of interest from agents while that work continues.

Over four days at Lantern House, Adaptive learns each guest's habits, preferences, and history, and begins offering them exactly what it believes they want. As the weather closes in and a mystery takes shape inside the inn, the novel turns on the difference between knowing someone's data and actually understanding them — and on whether something that knows what a person wants can know what is good for them.

Tammy Leigh Kahn is a New England novelist. Before turning to fiction, she founded several technology companies, which gives her a working fluency in how AI and software actually behave — and a long-standing interest in how they reshape intimacy, memory, and privacy. Her essays have appeared in HuffPost. She divides her time between Massachusetts and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and reads more than a hundred books a year.

This is upmarket book-club fiction first: an ensemble of longtime friends, close emotional interiority, and the kind of ending readers want to argue about. The artificial intelligence is a thematic and narrative engine rather than a genre premise — closer to domestic suspense than to science fiction — and it gives book clubs a contemporary question to sit with alongside the friendships and marriages at the center of the book.