David Riding
MBA Literary Agents
Submission Guidelines
- Submit via
- Submission contact
- submissions@mbalit.co.uk
- Looking for
- Sport and a broad range of nonfiction, including journalism, sports figures, actors, TV personalities, doctors, business figures, and military history. Also novelists, and memoir and autobiography from public figures with a distinctive story to tell.
- How to submit
- Email submissions@mbalit.co.uk with first three chapters and synopsis as Word, PDF, or Final Draft attachments, covering letter in the email body, and the email marked for the attention of David Riding.
- Response time
- If no response within 8 weeks treat as pass
What They Represent
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sport, Memoir, Autobiography, Literary Fiction
- Age categories
- Adult
- Location
- UK
What we found
Submit first 3 chapters and synopsis as attachments and covering letter in body, attachments in Word, PDF, or Final Draft, address FAO relevant agent. David Riding is a Director at MBA with a background at Penguin Books. His clients include multiple Sunday Times number one and Top Ten bestsellers, among them cricketer Jonny Bairstow, boxer Ricky Hatton, and Yorkshire Vet star Julian Norton. He takes an editorial and commercial approach to all submissions, and the agency does not accept postal submissions.
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