We represent literary fiction, quality commercial fiction, thrillers, suspense, children and young adult fiction, biographies and a few non fiction works.
We don't represent horror, Sci Fi and poetry. Read more
Services To help writers reach their full potential through detailed advice, constructive criticism, and market directed input across the full range of technical and artistic requirements for approaching the market including: plot, characters, dramatic narrative momentum, style, grammar, punctuation, pace. Read more
Literary fiction, crime writing and writing for children; non-fiction: biography, history, sport, music popular culture. Also adult fiction and general non-fiction. No poetry, science fiction, fantasy or academic.
Represents children's writers and illustrators. No reading fee. See website for submission guidelines. Read more
All fiction, especially crime, women's commercial, general and literary fiction; all non-fiction, especially biography, history, health, cooking, arts and crafts.
No science fiction, horror, fantasy, short stories, poetry, academic books.
No reading fee. Send introductory letter describing work, first 3 chapters and sae.
Commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction, children's fiction (home 15%, overseas 20%). Submissions only by email. No reading fee. Will suggest revision where appropriate. See website for up-to-date submission requirements.
Does not accept poetry, short stories, screenplays, science fiction or fantasy for adults. Not currently looking for picture books. Read more
Handles novels and non-fiction of high quality, including reference works (12.5%). Does not represent children's books, crime, erotica, fantasy, murder mysteries, occult, science fiction or thrillers.
'Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.
Writing Tsarina and The Tsarina's Daughter allowed me to live a writer's dream: discovering hitherto unexploited, larger-than-life characters, who roam an equally unexplored setting. In his TED talk, the literary agent Jonny Geller says: "Readers are looking for a journey, from a place where they have not been, to a place they know not where..." It's the same for an author.
Writers and critics are raising questions over the role that agents and estates play in managing archives and limiting access to biographical material.
Fresh worries have been fuelled by the continuing fiasco over the publication of Philip Roth: The Biography, with accusations that access to the famed US author's archival material is being unfairly constrained.
We have so many fantasies of what the writer's life is like: jotting down notes at a café, time to dream, and a certain ease of getting published. Read more
Unlike regular book sales or library borrowing, authors do not receive a penny from the sale of secondhand editions of their works - but a new scheme dreamed up by used booksellers is set to change this for the first time.
The 2010s saw the rapid rise and equally rapid fall of the YA dystopian genre, with The Hunger Games and its followers dominating headlines and popular culture. Read more
Publishers WeeklyInternational news website of book publishing and bookselling including business news, reviews, bestseller lists, commentaries http://www.publishersweekly.com/'s inaugural U.S. Book Show kicked off this morning with a presentation by the publishing industry's biggest booster: Oprah Winfrey. In her keynote, Winfrey's tone was classic Oprah-and pitch-perfect for this year's virtual gathering of the book world.
History has always fascinated me, and I have been fortunate enough to study it full time and make a living writing non-fiction histories of the ancient world, as well as historical novels. I have written six novels set during the Peninsular War, and since then I have set stories in the Roman Empire at the end of the first century and start of the second century AD.
In April, Kate Claxton was revealed as the winner of the children's category of the 2021 Selfies Awards. Her picture book, the joyous My Mum's a Tiger, is illustrated by Angela Mayers. We asked her about her inspiration, her writing process and why she decided to self-publish.
Natasha Brown was young - "not even in secondary school" - when she first read Wuthering Heights. She'd crept down to her grandparents' basement, looking for a book to put her to sleep. "I started reading it and I stayed up all night," she laughs. Today, the very same copy of Wuthering Heights peeks out from a shelf behind her in her Mile End home. Read more
Eric Carle, the US author of best-selling children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died aged 91.
He died last Sunday, his family said.
"In the light of the moon, holding on to a good star, a painter of rainbows is now travelling across the night sky," a family statement said. Read more
'Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.'
