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Rowan Lawton

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The Soho Agency·UK

Agent profile summary

Represents
fiction and narrative non-fiction
Looking for
Commercial genre fiction (romcom; crime; thrillers); accessible literary/reading group; narrative non-fiction (often by women); emotional family drama; multigenerational stories; female-led crime; social-issue thrillers
How to submit
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Rowan Lawton is a literary agent at The Soho Agency based in UK. Their list focuses on fiction and narrative non-fiction. Currently open to submissions. Submissions via Email. For current guidelines, check the agent's own submission page linked below.

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Soho submissions: email first 3 chapters/first 30 pages and synopsis (with spoilers) and covering letter; Word preferred; no post; no poetry/textbooks.

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