Katharine Walton represents her clients' projects to the publishing, book-selling and foodie communities, as well as to general-interest local, regional and national media.

Walton has developed and sold books to U.S. and international publishers, but Katharine Walton Represents is primarily a promotions agency, focused on media and events bookings. She has 25 years of experience launching and promoting literary, cultural and food-related ventures.

Her client list includes festivals, books and their authors, restaurants and their chefs, and a variety of philanthropic and cultural organizations.

Before forming Katharine Walton Represents, she was the Director of Publicity for Algonquin Books, a division of Workman Publishing, New York. During her eight years with Workman, Algonquin saw its first-through-fourth hits on the New York Times Bestseller List. She discovered she enjoyed and was successful at launching first novels, memoirs and cookbooks. She found she loved figuring out how to take a new or little-known project and see that it reaches an audience; and in sometimes as little as six months' time, see projects find lift and sail or even become common culture.

Before working at this publishing house based in the South, she was for three years Editor-in-Chief of Charleston Magazine and for one year also Editorial Director of Gulfstream Communications. Before editing the flagship city magazine, and directing other local publications, she was for three years an editor and writer for trade magazines published by Communication Channels Incorporated.

Her career, working in publishing and journalism, began with editorial internships and freelance writing for local newspapers and national magazines, while still an undergraduate at The University of South Carolina Journalism School. Through good luck, an article she wrote about Charleston won a Travel Journalism award, was anthologized in a book, and then turned into a screenplay for The Travel Channel.

Joining many of her interests (reading, traveling, cooking, editing and promoting)—while still managing publicity clients—she worked for a year and half launching Garden & Gun, a nationally-distributed southern magazine. She built the contributors list; assigned and produced the articles relating to art, food, books and music; and helped define the editorial scope. Before the end of the first year publishing, the magazine received notice from The New York Times and won the Min award for Best Editorial Team and first-runner-up Best New Launch in the US.

On this website is a partial client list, arranged by topical focus, in order to show the types of projects Katharine Walton represents.