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Charlotte Seymour
Johnson & Alcock
Open to submissions
Submission Guidelines
- Submit via
- Submission contact
- charlotte@johnsonandalcock.co.uk
- Looking for
- Fiction: book club/literary, character- and voice-driven crime/thriller/suspense, dark/gothic/uncanny, love stories, family sagas, historical from a slant, Highsmithian thrillers. Non-fiction: accessible social/cultural history, biography/memoir, reportage, popular science, nature, arts, food/cookery, experts, journalists, lived experience
- How to submit
- Email charlotte@johnsonandalcock.co.uk with a short covering letter (including a book blurb and brief author bio), a synopsis of no more than two pages, and the opening 50 pages of the manuscript (fiction), or a book proposal of approximately 50 pages (non-fiction). Submissions must be in Word Doc format, at least 1.5 line spaced, page-numbered, on A4. Submit to one agent only; do not blind-copy. Attachments must be under 5MB.
- Response time
- Aim to respond within 3 months (agency), cannot guarantee response to every submission
What They Represent
- Genres
- Fiction And Non-Fiction
- Age categories
- Adult
- Location
- UK
What we found
J and A submissions: email only, choose one agent, include cover letter and synopsis and opening pages (see submissions page for format or limits). She also champions select titles in translation.
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