For Literary Agents
Seeking Representation
Overview
Thank you for visiting. Tammy Leigh Kahn is an unagented author actively seeking literary representation for her debut novel, The Light Behind the Mountain.
Title
The Light Behind the Mountain
Status
Complete manuscript, polished and ready
Category
Adult — Upmarket / Book Club Fiction
Genre
Contemporary literary fiction with a near-future / AI thread
Word Count
~90,000 words
Setting
North Conway, New Hampshire (winter)
Comparable Titles
Meg Mitchell Moore, Jaime Day, Catherine Newman, J. Courtney Sullivan — with a quiet speculative thread reminiscent of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun.
Logline
When a group of longtime friends gather at an AI-powered ski retreat in the White Mountains, a house that learns them faster than they can hide from each other forces a long-overdue reckoning with the lives they thought they were living.
About the Author
Before turning to fiction, Tammy founded several technology companies, giving her a deep fluency in how AI and software actually behave — a perspective that informs the novel's near-future world without overwhelming its emotional core. Her essays have appeared in HuffPost. She divides her time between Massachusetts and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Positioning
The novel sits squarely in upmarket book-club fiction — the ensemble friendship dynamic and emotional interiority of Meg Mitchell Moore and Catherine Newman, with a contemporary AI setting that gives book clubs a fresh angle to talk about.
Contact
Agents interested in reading the full manuscript or a partial are warmly invited to reach out directly.
Please use the subject line "Agent Inquiry" so your message is prioritized. A query letter, synopsis, and sample pages are available on request.