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Capel & Land Ltd

Contacts
29 Wardour Street

London, W1D 6PS
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7734 2414
fax: 
020-7734 8101
email: 
rosie@capelland.co.uk
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Agents

  • Georgina Capel (literary)
  • Anita Land (TV)

Submission guidelines

Long list of clients - Specialist with rights and broadcasting.

Founded 1999

Leonhardt Høier Literary Agency a/s

Contacts
Studiestraede 35

Copenhagen , K DK-1455
Denmark
tel: 
(33) 13 25 23
fax: 
(33) 13 49 92
email: 
anneli@leonhardt-hoier.dk
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Director

  • Anneli Høier with Monica Gram

The agency was founded in 1951 by Albrecht Leonhardt.

Specialising in selling German literature to Scandinavia.

In 1995 the agency was restructured and is now a leading international rights agency.

The Rod Hall Agency Ltd

Contacts
6th Floor, Fairgate House
78 New Oxford Street
London, WC1A 1HB
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7079 7987
fax: 
(0845) 6384094
email: 
office@rodhallagency.com
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Directors

  • Charlotte Knight
  • Martin Knight

Contact

  • Tanya Tillett

The Rod Hall AgencyThe Rod Hall Agency was formed in May 1997 to represent playwrights and screenwriters, writers who also direct, directors and stage and screen rights in selected novels.

Specialises in writers for stage, screen and radio but also deals in TV and film rights in novels and non-fiction and represents writer/directors. Email synopsis and intro in first instance, with a showreel if you are a writer/director.

No reading fee.

was formed in May 1997 to represent playwrights and screenwriters, writers who also direct, directors and stage and screen rights in selected novels.  Read more

Frances Bond Literary Services

Contacts
28 Gray's Inn Crescent

Westville , KwaZulu-Natal 3630
South Africa
tel: 
(031) 2662007
email: 
fbond@mweb.co.za
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Personnel: 
  • Chief Executive Frances Bond
  • Chief Editor Eileen Molver

Founded 1985.

Full length MSS. Fiction and non-fiction; juvenile and children's literature.

Consultancy service on contracts and copyright.

Preliminary phone call or letter and sase required. Reading fee terms on application.

A.M. Heath & Co. Ltd

Contacts
6 Warwick Court

London, WC1R 5DJ
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7242 2811
fax: 
020-7242 2711
email: 
enquiries@amheath.com
A.M. Heath & Co. Ltd website
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Contacts

  • William Hamilton
  • Sara Fisher
  • Victoria Hobbs
  • Euan Thorneycroft
  • Jennifer Custer
  • Sarah Molloy

Full-length MSS. Literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction, children's, performance rights. Also handles adult literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction; 20% of list is for children's market.

Handles picture books, fiction for 5-8 and 9-12 year-olds, teenage fiction, series fiction, film/TV tie-ins and non-fiction.  Read more

William Morris Agency Inc.

Contacts
1325 Avenue of the Americas

New York , NY 10019
United States
tel: 
212-586-5100
fax: 
212-246-3583
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Personnel: 

Executive VP Owen Laster

Senior VPs

  • Jennifer Rudolph Walsh
  • Suzanne Gluck
  • Joni Evans
  • Mel Berger
  • Jay Mandel
  • Tracy Fisher

General fiction and non-fiction (home 15%, overseas 20%, performance rights 15%). 

Will suggest revision. No reading fee. 

Association of Authors' Representatives

Jennifer Luithlen Agency

Contacts
88 Holmfield Road

Leicester, LE2 1SB
United Kingdom
tel: 
0116-273 8863
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Personnel: 

Agents

  • Jennifer Luithlen
  • Penny Luithlen

Not looking for new clients.

Children's fiction (home 15%, overseas 20%), performance rights (15%).

Founded 1986.

The Susie Adams Rights Agency

Contacts
PO Box 3820

Bath, BA2 4WY
United Kingdom
email: 
susieara@aol.com
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Personnel: 

Agent

  • Susie Adams

Rights consultancy and subsidiary rights agent on behalf of packagers, literary agents and publishers: foreign language and co-edition rights worldwide, UK serial, book club, merchandise and other sub rights.

So no authors.

The Susijn Agency Ltd

Contacts
3rd Floor
64 Great Titchfield Street
London, W1W 7QH
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7580 6341
fax: 
020-7580 8626
email: 
info@thesusijnagency.com
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Personnel: 

Agents

  • Laura Susijn
  • Nicola Barr

Specialises in world rights in English- and non-English-language literature: literary fiction and general non-fiction

No self-help, science-fiction, fantasy, romance, sagas, computer, illustrated, business, military, screenplays.
Submission of manuscripts:
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Lavinia Trevor Literary Agency

Contacts
29 Addison Place

London, W11 4RJ
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7603 5254
fax: 
(0870) 129 0838
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Lavinia Trevor Literary Agency

Lavinia Trevor Literary Agency is an independent agency established in 1993 by Lavinia Trevor, who is a member of the Association of Authors' Agents.

The agency represents writers of both fiction (commercial and literary) and general non-fiction (including popular science).

Wherever appropriate they also handle and exploit underlying rights in clients’ books (e.g. translation, US, audio) usually working with co-agents around the world.

For film/television rights they work with The Agency, a distinguished independent theatrical agency also based in London.

is an independent agency established in 1993 by Lavinia Trevor, who is a member of the Association of Authors' Agents.

The agency represents writers of both fiction (commercial and literary) and general non-fiction (including popular science).
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25 November 2019 - What's new

November 2019
  • Do genre writers receive adequate respect from the literary establishment? ‘Everything's upside down. They assume that to do something that appeals to a huge audience is somehow easier than to do something that appeals to a tiny audience. Because we do a book a year people think you just crank a handle and out it comes.
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Do genre writers receive adequate respect from the literary establishment?

25 November 2019

‘Everything's upside down. They assume that to do something that appeals to a huge audience is somehow easier than to do something that appeals to a tiny audience. Because we do a book a year people think you just crank a handle and out it comes. All my peers are smart, intelligent, well-informed, interested in the world; everybody puts in a huge amount of effort. It's not easy to do.  Read more

Wicked Young Writers 2020

Information

Closing date: 
2 March 2020
Entry: 
5-25 year-olds writers in the UK. No entry fee
Prize: 
Each winner gets four tickets to see the London production of WICKED at the Apollo Victoria Theatre + meet cast members after the show along with an exclusive backstage tour and £50 worth of books/eBooks tokens to spend.

The Wicked Young Writers Awards has announced that entries are open for its 10th anniversary year. Created by the producers of the musical Wicked in partnership with the National Literacy TrustUK-based organisation which has campaigned since 1993 to improve literacy standards across all age groups. Excellent research information and details of the many initiatives the charity is currently involved in. www.literacytrust.org.uk. It also has a useful page of news stories on UK literacy, which links to newsletter http://www.readitswapit.co.uk/TheLibrary.aspx, the annual national writing competition is for 5 to 25-year-olds, and is intended "to reward excellence in creative writing and encourage young people to find their own voice".  Read more

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