Robert Smith
Robert Smith Literary Agency
Submission Guidelines
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- Submission contact
- [email protected]
- Looking for
- Nonfiction across a wide range of categories including autobiography and biography, health, fitness and personal development, humour and language, inspirational real lives, popular culture, history and current affairs, true crime, war and military, and crime fiction.
- How to submit
- The Robert Smith Literary Agency is currently closed to new submissions and is not accepting any new book proposals at this time.
What They Represent
- Genres
- Non-Fiction, Autobiography And Biography, Health, Fitness And Personal Development, Humour And Language, Inspirational Real Lives, Popular Culture, History And Current Affairs, True Crime, War And Military, Crime Fiction
- Age categories
- Adult
- Location
- UK
What we found
Robert Smith began his career at Octopus Books and went on to serve as Publishing Director at Ebury Press and Sidgwick and Jackson, where he worked with authors including Debbie Reynolds, Eartha Kitt, and Bruce Dickinson. He ran his own publishing company, Smith Gryphon Publishers, from 1990 before becoming a literary agent in 1997. Past titles from that imprint include The Diary of Jack the Ripper, which sold half a million copies worldwide. The agency works with Louisa Pritchard Associates for foreign rights and Renée Zuckerbrot Literary Agency as US co-agent.
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