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Caroline Montgomery

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Rupert Crew Ltd·UK

Agent profile summary

Represents
fiction and non-fiction
Looking for
Agency interests: non-fiction (craft/cookery/biography/memoir/health/mind body spirit/travel/history/natural history/true crime/pop culture); fiction (commercial women's; crime; thrillers; literary (not experimental); YA; children's)
How to submit
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Caroline Montgomery is a literary agent at Rupert Crew Ltd based in UK. Their list focuses on fiction and non-fiction. Currently closed to submissions. Submissions via Other. For current guidelines, check the agent's own submission page linked below.

Age Categories

Adult, YA, Children's

Notes

The agency is currently closed to new clients. Caroline Montgomery is Managing Director and daughter of the late Doreen Montgomery; she holds a degree in Classics and History of Art and previously worked at Arrow Books and Elaine Greene Ltd before joining the family firm in 1993. She has served on the committee of the Association of Authors' Agents. The agency handles volume and subsidiary rights in fiction and non-fiction, with home commission at 15% and overseas at 20%.

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