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David Riding

MBA Literary Agents

Open to submissions

Submission Guidelines

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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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