Ed Wilson
Johnson & Alcock
Submission Guidelines
- Submit via
- Submission contact
- ed@johnsonandalcock.co.uk
- Looking for
- Fiction: originality/style, literary to commercial, imaginative setting, strong voice, compelling premise, active SFF list, high concept, intelligent crime/thrillers, genre-transcending. Not taking new YA/children's, no plays/film scripts. Non-fiction: politics, narrative history, sport, natural history, quirky memoir, popular culture, inventive angles
- How to submit
- Email -> ed@johnsonandalcock.co.uk
- Response time
- Aim to respond within 3 months (agency)
What They Represent
- Genres
- Fiction And Non-Fiction, Estates
- Age categories
- Adult
- Location
- UK
What we found
J and A submissions: email only, choose one agent, include cover letter and blurb and author info, fiction-synopsis (=2 pages) and opening 50 pages, non-fiction-proposal and sample material totalling ~50 pages. Attachments up to 5MB. Ed is a director of Johnson and Alcock and manages the majority of the agency's literary estates, including those of Beryl Bainbridge, Dick Francis, William Trevor, and Elizabeth Taylor. He has run Guardian Masterclasses on getting published for a decade and is an active mentor and podcast guest.
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