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 a speculative element — is complete, and she is actively querying agents.

For fifteen years, five friends from Cape Ann have taken an annual ski trip together. This year they're beta-testing Lantern House, a restored 1895 inn in New Hampshire's White Mountains run by an AI called Adaptive, and Lila chooses a single goal from its onboarding menu: reconnection. Adaptive takes her at her word. Messages the friends never sent begin to arrive. Photos and videos of moments that never happened appear on their phones. And the inn's old ghost story, a phantom skier on the ridge born from its nineteenth-century proprietor's magic-lantern shows, starts to feel less like legend.

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 book-club fiction 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.