Literary Agents Fiction Uk
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B&A: Can anyone tell me any UK and/or international literary agents specialising in YA fiction?
Originally, I was working on children’s fiction, then I’ve been told it’s a bit dark for that genre, also there’s mild swearing, so it’s not YA.
If you can, please give me just the names. You don’t have to post links. Thanks.
Does anyone know any literary agents/publishers intrested in christian fiction manuscripts?
UK based writer with several manuscripts also looking for publishers intested in short stories,inspirational poetry. Anyone read – Purple hibiscus by Chiamanda Adiche or Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe- anyone know of any publishers looking for a new African voice out there?
Blech, don’t submit to Focus on the Family- at least, not if you want anyone to respect your writing. I mean, these are the people who went around saying that Spongebob Squarepants promoted the “homosexual agenda.”
To my knowledge, many of the largest publishing houses have smaller offshoots that specialize in different areas, including Christian fiction. I’d contact the major publishing houses and see what they have.
I’m a little confused as to whether your manuscript is YA or not. Either way, most agents that represent children’s fiction also represent young adult fiction–not always, but most of the time. I’m in the US and I don’t know many international agents, but I do know one: Julia Churchill with Greenhouse Literary Agency. I have met Sarah Davies, her American counterpart, at a writing conference and she seemed very knowledgeable and professional.
Check out the submission guidelines here: http://www.greenhouseliterary.com/index.php/site/how_to_submit
How to find a literary agent?
I thought finding the appropriate agency for me would be easy, considering a lot of my American pals seem to find loads to send queries to, but here in the UK I can’t find any and if I do, they don’t take on what I’m offering. It’s more than frustrating.
Is there a site out there which gives a list of UK agencies for writers of fiction? Even better still if they have categories such as romance, young adult etc.
Cheers in advance.
Visit Ralan.Com he has a listing of publishers and their requirements, a quick scan through there and you may find just what you are looking for.
You need a copy of The Writers and Artists Year Book, it has lists of agents and publishers, what type of writing they accept, how to submit it and who to etc. I bought my copy cheaply off Ebay or go to your local library they should have one.
Is this literary agent going to respond?
I sent a query letter to a literary agent and got this e-mail;
The agent writes below;
Forgive the first para. My mistake. We will be in touch if we want to read this.
Sincerely,
In a message dated 3/17/2010 9:45:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hisemail@.com writes:
this is his previous email;
Thank you for the email. I have passed this on to my associate who would normally be in touch if we have any interest in pursuing this. However, I liked your pitch so please submit this to me. I am in Los Angeles next week but back in NYC on the 30th.
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I took the agents name out of the email for security reasons.
Anyway Should I send another email after the 30th, or keep looking for other agents? Will they let me know wheter or not I’ve been accepted or rejected? I’d rather be rejected than just ignored so I can know if I need to move on.
Which UK publishers accept unsolicited manuscripts for non-fiction books?
Few publishers now accept unsolicited manuscripts, normally a literary agent is required, I was wondering if there were any publishers who still allowed unsolicited scripts for non-fiction books to be sent to them?
hey there. I’ve actually published a book before, so I could probably help you out with that. I’m not really sure if this literary agent is credible or not, but if an agent has not responded to you after some time then you should probably move on. I would keep on submitting to other agents in the meantime, but agents are picky when it comes to representing new authors. You might get some rejections. If you can’t get an agent to help you, I recommend that you self-publish as an option. I’m currently doing it, and it is worth it. I recently made a new website that has some information on how to go about publishing a book. It’s called http://www.2publishabook.com. I hope it helps you in your quest. Anyway good luck.