Our submission guidelines:

 

 Please read them all the way through, thank you.

 

If you want to contact us by email:

  • We’re happy for your initial approach to be a cover letter by email but please, do not paste your material into the email or attach it.  Unsolicited email attachments will be deleted without being read.

  • If we want to see your material we will then invite you to send it to us via email and only then we will open your attachment.

 

If you want to contact us by post:

  • Please send a covering letter as per below and if you want to include the following material with the initial approach this is fine (but please include return postage etc – see below):

    • adult books - we would like to see a minimum of three chapters together with a synopsis

    • children’s fiction – the whole book together with a synopsis

    • scripts – the whole script and a treatment

 

Telephone:

Unless you are being referred or coming by personal recommendation, we prefer not to handle initial requests by telephone as we don’t have the people or time to deal with each enquiry at length.  

Thank you.


General:

  • Your initial approach should be in the form of a  short letter telling us:

    • What you want to send us: a book, a play, or film, whether it’s fiction, non-fiction, based on a true story, if non-fiction, why you’re the person best suited to write this book and any other information that is going to excite us and make your material sound more interesting than the other hundreds of submission letters we get

    • A bit about yourself; your past, your past writing/publishing history if  relevant, your future writing plans

    • Your name and address

    •  who else you are approaching about your work – see point below about exclusivity

  • A stamped self-addressed envelope, or funds sufficient to cover return postage, is essential if you want any material returned.  Please don’t ask us to return material to you by registered or recorded post as it does mean a separate trip to the post office and a lovely queue.

  • All material submitted is at your own risk and expense.  All authors should always keep a copy of the material as sent to us.  We would also recommend as good practice, that you  keep at least one original hard copy of your own work just in case your computer “dies”.

  • Submissions should be typed in a clear font of at least a size 12 pt, double spaced and printed on one side only.  Except for scripts, we prefer that material is not stapled or bound in any manner.

  • We do not accept manuscript submissions via email (or fax) unless by specific invitation.
  • We prefer to read material exclusively but understand that the wait can be frustrating if you have to send to one agent at a time.  We will not read material under mass submission but if you are submitting to ourselves and one or two other select agents (or publishers/producers) at the same time, please let us know the details of who else you have sent your material to and keep us up to date on their responses.
  • If your material might be for us, we will send you an acknowledgement with a guideline of how long it might take us to get back to you with a response. If you haven’t had an initial response of either a rejection or an acknowledgement within four weeks of submission, it may well be we didn’t receive your letter but otherwise we deal with all submissions in strict chronological order so please be patient.  ‘Phoning or emailing to chase for a response will not endear you to us.
  • We do not charge a reading fee. 
  • We handle fiction and general non-fiction, children’s books, scripts for film, television and theatre.  We love really good psychological thrillers, commercial literary fiction and narrative, general interest non-fiction.  We’re not the biggest fans of chick-lit or sci-fi although then again, rules are made to be broken.

  • We don’t handle any poetry, short stories, academic or text books, nor do we represent short films or musicals.