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The Parisian Agency

Contacts
101 rue Raymond-Losserand

Paris, 75014
France
tel: 
(+33) 1 45 39 68 14
email: 
alexandra@parisiancy.com
The Parisian Agency website
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Personnel: 

Director / Contact

  • Alexandra LEFEBVRE

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

Writers House UK

Contacts
7th Floor, Waverley House
7-12 Noel Street
London, W1F 8GQ
United Kingdom
email: 
Akowal@writershouse.com
Writers House UK website
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Personnel: 

Contact

  • Angharad Kowal

 

Our agents work with literary and commercial fiction, women's fiction, science fiction/fantasy, narrative non-fiction, history, memoirs, biographies, psychology, science, parenting, cookbooks, how-to, self-help, business, finance, young adult and juvenile fiction/non-fiction and picture books.  Read more

Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency

Contacts
50 Talmage Farm Lane

East Hampton, NY 11937
United States
Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency website
Twitter: 
LukasAtSpitzerA
Facebook: 
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Philip-G-Spitzer-Literary-Agency-Inc/1214059479168...
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Personnel: 

Associates

  • Philip G. Spitzer: spitzer516(at)aol.com
  • Lukas Ortiz: lukas.ortiz(at)spitzeragency.com
  • Lucas Hunt: luc.hunt(at)spitzeragency.com

Our client list is currently full. However, if you have a project that you feel is absolutely a fit for one of us, or questions concerning our clients and their rights, we can be reached at the addresses show.  Read more

United Authors Ltd

Contacts
11-15 Betterton Street

London, WC2H 9BP
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7470 8886
fax: 
020-7470 8887
email: 
editorial@unitedauthors.co.uk
United Authors Ltd website
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Fiction, non-fiction, children's, biography, travel. Full-length MSS (home 12%, overseas 20%), short MSS (12%/20%), film and radio (15%/20%), TV (15%/15%). Will suggest revision.

Authors include Charlotte Bingham, Terence Brady, Peter Willet, and the Estate of John Bingham.

Founded 1998.

Rees Literary Agency

Contacts
14 Beacon Street
Suite 710
Boston, MA 02108
United States
Rees Literary Agency website
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Personnel: 

Associates

  • Lorin Rees
  • Ann Collette
  • Nicole LaBombard
  • Rebecca Podos

The Rees Literary Agency was founded in 1983 by Helen Rees. The agency represents a wide variety of authors, including Jack Welch, Alan Dershowitz and Siobhan Fallon.

We represent the following genres: literary and commercial fiction, memoirs, history, biography, business, self-help, psychology, and science.  Read more

Prentice Beaumont

Contacts
1 Park Village East

London, NW1 7PX
United Kingdom
tel: 
0207 387 8637
email: 
info@prenticebeaumont.co.uk
Prentice Beaumont website
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Personnel: 

Partners

  • Kate Prentice
  • Vanessa Beaumont

Founded 2012

No reading fee

Rocking Chair Books Ltd.

Contacts
2 Rudgwick Terrace
St. Stephens Close
London, NW8 6BR
United Kingdom
tel: 
07809 461342
email: 
samar@rockingchairbooks.com
Rocking Chair Books Ltd. website
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Personnel: 

Contact

  • Director Samar Hammam

Rocking Chair Books is a literary agency focusing on literary fiction, upmarket commercial, and commercial fiction and general non-fiction for publication around the world. Our motto is a great story is a great story.

No reading fee.

We represent Brian Turner, Zena el Khalil, Lakambini Sitoy, Conflict Relief, Elle Symmonds.


Founded 2011  Read more

Rebecca Strong International Literary Agency

Contacts
235 West 108th Street, Suite 35

New York, NY 10025
United States
tel: 
212-865-1569
email: 
info@rsila.com
Rebecca Strong International Literary Agency website
Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-Snell-Literary-Agency/109596642396009
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Personnel: 

Owner/Agent Rebecca Strong

Literary and commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir and biography, self-improvement/how-to but see website for latest submission guidelines.  Read more

Schiavone Literary Agency, Inc

Contacts
Corporate offices:
236 Trails End
West Palm Beach, FL 33413-2135
United States
tel: 
516-966-9294
email: 
profschia@aol.com
Schiavone Literary Agency, Inc website
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Personnel: 

CEO

  • James Schiavone

President

  • Jennifer DuVall

Fiction and non-fiction, specialising in celebrity biography and memoirs. 

Send query letter only with return envelope and IRCs or US postage. 

Accepts email queries (no attachments). Founded 1996.

Peter Knight Agency

Contacts
20 Crescent Grove

London, SW4 7AH
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7622 1467
Peter Knight Agency website
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Personnel: 

Director

  • Peter Knight

Associates

  • Gaby Martin,
  • Andrew Knight,
  • Samantha Ferris

Motor sports, cartoon books, business, history and factual and biographical material.

No poetry, science fiction or cookery.

No unsolicited MSS. Send letter accompanied by CV and sae with synopsis of proposed work. No email submissions.

Overseas associates United Media (USA), Auspac Media (Australia), Puzzle Company (NZ).

Founded 1985.

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June 2021
  • 'Writing is rewriting. The first draft is the jabber you forced on that blind date. She was hoping for someone to ask her what she was feeling, but all you said was, and then I, and then I, and then I, and then . . . The first draft is meant to be discarded. The first draft is the beginning of the idea, the slender thread of a story.
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Walter Mosley on rewriting

14 June 2021

'Writing is rewriting. The first draft is the jabber you forced on that blind date. She was hoping for someone to ask her what she was feeling, but all you said was, and then I, and then I, and then I, and then . . . The first draft is meant to be discarded. The first draft is the beginning of the idea, the slender thread of a story.  Read more

‘All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.'

— P D James