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Zoe Apostolides

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Coombs Moylett Maclean (CMM Literary Agency)·UK

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Represents
crimecommercial fictionnon-fiction
Looking for
Horror fiction; education; politics; feminism
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Zoe Apostolides is a literary agent at Coombs Moylett Maclean (CMM Literary Agency) based in UK. Their list focuses on crime, commercial fiction, and non-fiction. Currently open to submissions, with responses usually within If no response after 3 months assume not taking project forward. Submissions via Email. For current guidelines, check the agent's own submission page linked below.

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Usually responds within If no response after 3 months assume not taking project forward

Notes

Zoë Apostolides works on the editorial side of CMM rather than as a full agent, helping new and existing writers develop manuscripts. The agency itself is editorially led and represents notable clients including continuation Bond author John Gardner and crime writers Lisa Hall, Simon Brett, and Catriona McPherson. Writers should be aware that no response within three months means the project is not being taken forward.

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Lisa Moylett

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How to submitEmail submissions@cmm.agency with a one-paragraph author biography, a one-paragraph blurb or hook including genre and audience, a short synopsis covering plot, setting, theme and characters, and the first three chapters as an attachment. Manuscript must be double or 1.5 line-spaced, with wide margins, in a font no smaller than 12-point (preferably Times New Roman), fully page-numbered, with your name, address, contact number and email on the first page.
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