Clare Coombes
Liverpool Literary Agency
Submission Guidelines
- Submit via
- Submission contact
- submissions@liverpool-literary.agency
- Looking for
- Historical fiction, crime fiction, psychological thrillers and women's fiction, open to great adult fiction with a strong hook. Excludes non-fiction, children's and YA. Encourages under-represented writers from the North of England
- How to submit
- Email submissions@liverpool-literary.agency with a cover email including details about you, the book genre, blurb, inspirations, comparable authors and titles, and why your book will stand out. Attach a synopsis and first three chapters or first 5,000 words in a Word document with numbered pages.
- Response time
- If no response within 12 weeks treat as pass
What They Represent
- Genres
- Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Women's Fiction, Adult Fiction
- Age categories
- Adult
- Location
- UK
What we found
Clare will reopen submissions on 1 March 2026. She founded the first Liverpool-based literary agency in 2020, has over 20 years of professional writing and editing experience, and has published two novels: Definitions (2015) and We Are of Dust (2018), the latter of which received development funding from the Liverpool Film Office for a TV adaptation. She accepts submissions only from writers born or currently living in the North of England, with the geographic boundary defined as from the southern edges of Cheshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire up to the Scottish border, including Northumberland and Cumbria — exceptions apply for writers coming through Jericho Writers or I AM in Print programmes.
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