I like to get a very clear sense that any writer submitting to me is in this because they love writing, not because they see pound signs flashing up. With the writing itself I am mainly looking for three things: Authenticity, Uniqueness of Voice and Intricacy of Plotting. I want to know why are you so well placed to tell … read more...
Peter Straus has been in the world of publishing for over thirty-five years. He began as a graduate trainee at Hodder and Stoughton and helped set up the Sceptre imprint in the mid 1980s. After a brief stint at Hamish Hamilton he became the publisher of Picador in 1990 and was tasked with building up the hardcover imprint as well … read more...
I am a literary agent specialising in well-written, entertaining, provocative and engaging fiction and narrative non-fiction. I have a particular affinity for debuts as I used to be a writer myself, but ultimately I am looking for authors who want to be read, who write for this purpose and who have something to say regardless of where they are in … read more...
I represent a broad range of writers but I am particularly drawn to literary fiction, upmarket crime and thrillers and historical fiction on the adult side and middle-grade, YA and narrative non-fiction on the children’s side. I also represent some non-fiction, including history, feminism, biography, and cultural history. I am actively looking for debut authors and in particular propulsive, page-turning … read more...
First up, Gold Dust is delighted to recommend to you the agent Jenny Savill. Jenny represents two authors linked to our team. Rosie Nixon (taught on a writing retreat by Jill Dawson) and newly published Gold Dust graduate (mentored by Sally Cline) Eleanor Anstruther.
Jenny joined Andrew Nurnberg Associates in 2002 and is a Director of the company, placing authors … read more...
Literary fiction, commercial fiction, genre fiction, crossover fiction, reading-group fiction… I’m not looking for labels but live in a state of perpetual hope that the next manuscript I read will be a great story that’s brilliantly well told and beautifully written, that it will engage my brain and insist I turn the next page, that it will somehow take me … read more...
