Meet our 2017 line up of pitching agents and editors. You'll be matched with two of them based on your and their genre choices.
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Lucy Morris - Curtis Brown

Lucy Morris works at Curtis Brown where she is building a list of literary and reading group fiction, and narrative non-fiction and memoir. Previously she worked at Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Jonathan Ruppin - The Ruppin Agency

Jonathan Ruppin founded The Ruppin Agency in 2017, offering representation to authors of adult fiction and non-fiction. He spent nearly two decades in book retail, working for chains and indies, developing close relationships with all of the UK’s major publishers. He’s been a judge of numerous literary awards, including the Costa Novel Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Romantic Novelists’ Association awards. His journalism encompasses television, radio and print, including The Bookseller magazine’s Paperback Preview, and he has interviewed authors including Eleanor Catton, David Mitchell and Sebastian Barry at the Southbank Centre and Foyles. He sits on Engilsh PEN’s Writers in Translation committee. www.ruppinagency.com​

Carrie Plitt – Felicity Bryan Associates

Carrie Plitt is a literary agent at Felicity Bryan Associates where she is building a list of both fiction and non-fiction with a focus on literary and upmarket titles. She is looking for narrative non-fiction, pop-science, history, big ideas, travel, memoir and nature writing and she loves well-written novels that make her see the world differently. She is especially interested in finding voices from under-represented backgrounds. Prior to joining FBA, she worked at the literary agency Conville & Walsh and in the rights department at Penguin Books. She also hosts a monthly books talk show and podcast on NTS Radio called Literary Friction.
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Emily Yau – Quercus Book

 Emily Yau is currently Editorial Director on Quercus’s commercial fiction list, having previously worked at Penguin Random House, where she published books such as The One by John Marrs and The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker, which were both selected for Simon Mayo’s Radio 2 Book Club. She also acquired the psychological thriller Final Girls and an upcoming novel from bestselling non-fiction writer Helen Russell, and has worked with Sunday Times bestsellers Caitlin Moran, Andy Weir and Rowan Coleman. Emily studied on the English programme at Manchester Metropolitan University and is looking forward to returning for her third NCW Grad Fair. 

Rachel Conway – Georgina Capel Associates Ltd

Rachel Conway is a literary agent and Director at Georgina Capel Associates Ltd.  She studied Comparative Literature at King’s College London and, after spending time at various publishing houses and literary agencies, joined Georgina Capel in 2010. Her list includes Dylan Thomas Prize, Orwell Prize and Waterstones Children’s Book Prize shortlisted authors, as well as winners of the Manchester Fiction Prize, Irish Book of the Year, and the YA Book Prize. Her interests range from literary and well-written commercial fiction, to thrillers and books for older children and teens. She also represents a wide range of non-fiction writers, including scholars, journalists and cooks.



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Julia Silk - MBA

After more than 15 years as an editor Julia Silk became an agent in 2016. She works in association with MBA Literary Agents and her list covers adult fiction across the spectrum from commercial to literary, although she doesn't represent SFF. As both a reader and agent she looks for pacy, plot-driven novels with a great central premise and characters that captivate and intrigue. She wants to read books that make her laugh, cry, exclaim out loud in public and miss her stop on the train. Favourites include American Wife, Things We Have in Common, How to be a Good Wife and Alys, Always.​​

Laetitia Rutherford – Watson, Little Ltd

Laetitia Rutherford is a Literary Agent at Watson, Little Ltd, a long-standing independent agency representing a broad and lively client base with particular interest in Literary Fiction and Crime/Thrillers. Her authors include multi-award winning novelist Evie Wyld; the Edgar and Macavity Award-winning, bestselling suspense novelist Alex Marwood, author of 3 novels including The Wicked Girls, and Jenny Blackhurst, whose debut How I Lost You has sold over 250,000 copies and was the UK’s Top 10 best selling e-books of 2015. Laetitia holds Literature degrees from Oxford and from Goldsmiths universities, and started her publishing career in Fiction Marketing at HarperCollins. For more than a decade she has worked on the agent side, and loves to help bring together brilliant writing, unforgettable characters and unputdownable stories to make the perfect pitch. 
 
You can see her profile and full client list here: https://www.watsonlittle.com/agent/laetitia-rutherford
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Charlie Campbell - Kingsford Campbell

Charlie Campbell has been a literary agent for over a decade. He joined Ed Victor Ltd in 2005 before setting up Kingsford Campbell in 2014. He is interested in both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular focus on literary novels, thrillers and non-fiction that tackles big or quirky subjects in an accessible way. Before agenting, he spent three years at Literary Review, where he became Deputy Editor. His clients include Edward Brooke-Hitching, Jen Campbell, Rebecca Front, Julian Gough, Will Hill and Anthony McGowan. He is captain of the Authors XI, a cricket team of writers that has played at literary festivals in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Iceland. He has written two books:  Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People and Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy

John Berlyne - Zeno Agency

John Berlyne is the director of Zeno Agency Ltd, a London-based literary agency specialising in science fiction, fantasy and horror. The agency represents a top-drawer range of genre authors, both as primary agent and in association with a number of well-known agencies abroad. Zeno's list comprises major brand-names, high profile award winners, talented début authors and prestigious literary estates.


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Sandra Sawicka - Marjacq

Sandra Sawicka joined Marjacq in 2014 and is actively looking for new clients. She is particularly drawn to original voices and exotic settings – and this could be anything from a spanning space opera, to historical Southern gothic, to a literary novel set in a remote part of the world. She loves complex, morally ambiguous characters and has a weird soft-spot for university settings. Sandra represents authors from all over the world and believes that truly great stories are universal.

She also handles translation rights for all authors represented by Marjacq.​

Rebecca Ritchie - AM Heath

Rebecca Ritchie joined A.M. Heath in 2017 after 6 years at Curtis Brown, bringing with her her list of commercial authors, which includes Red magazine’s literary editor Sarra Manning, the Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller Alex Lake, author of After Anna, and Iona Grey, author of last year’s overall Romantic Novel of the Year Letters to the Lost. In 2015 she co-founded PitchCB, Curtis Brown’s monthly Twitter pitching event, with a colleague, which invites aspiring authors to pitch their novels to agents using just 140 characters, and last year was shortlisted for the London Book Fair Trailblazers Award. At A.M. Heath she is predominantly on the lookout for commercial fiction across the board, including contemporary women’s fiction, reading group, historical and suspense/thriller

Philippa Milnes-Smith – LAW Agency 

LAW Lucas Alexander Whitley’s Philippa Milnes-Smith, a specialist in children’s and YA fiction, is rare among agents in being both very senior and well-established and still positively hungry for debut work. She’s happy to take pitches on adult fiction and non-fiction as well, as she will be scouting for other colleagues in the agency too. She began her working life as an editor and then publisher, becoming MD at Puffin and a Director of Penguin Books. She was (remarkably) the first children’s and YA agent to be elected President of the Association of Authors Agents.

Becky Thomas - Johnson and Alcock

Becky Thomas began her publishing career in 2005 in the Rights Department at Faber & Faber, then worked at Abner Stein Agency and WME (previously William Morris), before joining Fox Mason in April 2013. Her diverse list covers a wide range of bestselling and award winning writers, from poets, playwrights, and illustrators, to journalists, musicians and bloggers. She joined Johnson and Alcock in the Summer of 2015, bringing her list of authors with her, including Kate Tempest, Hollie McNish, Gemma Cairney and Suzanne Moore, as well as Manchester-based authors Lara Williams, Emily Morris, and Jason Wood, to name a few.
She has a particular interest in literary and reading group fiction, narrative non-fiction and memoir, graphic novels, and writing on subjects such as popular culture, music, feminism, sport, nature, film and food. She was also part of the team that ran the Literary Tent at Camp Bestival for four years.

Alexander Cochran - Conville & Walsh

Alexander Cochran is a literary agent at C+W (formerly Conville & Walsh), handling everything from literary fiction to commercial crime and upmarket non-fiction. He has a strong focus on speculative fiction that pushes the boundaries, and his authors have won or been shortlisted for the BSFA Best novel award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W Campbell Award, and The Kitschies.
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Chloe Seager - Diane Banks Associates

Chloe Seager is the Children’s/YA agent at Diane Banks Associates, where she is building a list for ages 5 and up. She also represents some select adult sci-fi and fantasy. Before joining DBA she worked in publishing in publicity, and before that she studied English Literature & Drama at the University of East Anglia. Chloe’s own debut YA book, Editing Emma, came out from HQ at HarperCollins in August and the second in the series will be out in 2018.






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Hayley Steed - Madeleine Milburn

Hayley Steed assists Madeleine Milburn at the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency, also coordinating the Digital, Film & TV rights, working closely with the agency’s clients.
Previously she was Publicity Assistant at ED Public Relations, specialising in promoting bestselling authors and collaborating with publishers. She was shortlisted for the PPC Children’s Book Award for her work on the campaign for Jenny Downham’s Unbecoming. After graduating from Loughborough University with a First Class Honours in English she spent a year interning at five of the top UK literary agencies.

Kerry Glencorse

Kerry Glencorse has worked for Editions Flammarion in Paris, David Godwin Associates in London and since 2008 has run the London office of Susanna Lea Associates. The agency also has offices in Paris and New York and represents a wide range of authors, including a number of international bestsellers. She is on the lookout for literary fiction, well-written genre fiction including women’s fiction, historical, crime and thrillers, and on the non-fiction side: memoir, narrative non-fiction, popular science, social and cultural history. Above all she is looking for strong storytelling, innovative and original ideas, and books that move her. Her clients include authors such as Alice Adams, Marie Phillips, Louisa Hall and Joanna Bolouri on the fiction side, and Tom Service, Ted Kessler and Caroline Jones on the non-fiction side.

​Mark Stanton

Stan (Mark Stanton) worked at Canongate Books for more than six years before becoming an agent in 2003. He represents writers from an array of genres including: literary and book club fiction, crime and thrillers and narrative non-fiction – particularly in the areas of biography, sport and popular culture. His list includes bestsellers and prize winners such as Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and The Universe versus Alex Woods. In 2011 he was short-listed for Literary Agent of the Year. He didn’t win.

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Thérèse Coen

Thérèse Coen is currently Literary Agent and Rights Director at the Hardman & Swainson. She learned to ropes of rights-selling in her first jobs at Bloomsbury Publishing and Ed Victor Ltd. before starting to build her list at the Madeleine Milburn Agency, and continuing to do so in her current role at Hardman & Swainson. She is looking for a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, but with an original concept or hook, polished and pacey writing, captivating worlds and strong protagonists, be they fictionalised or real. She is looking for emotional books, laugh-out-loud ones, and deep or serious ones. She also relished the fact that she gets to sell her own authors both to UK & US publishers, as well as to publishers all around the world in her role as Rights Director, so books with an international flavour are definitely an added bonus. Thérèse is also a Bookseller Rising Star of 2017.

Laura Williams

​Laura Williams is an agent at Peters Fraser and Dunlop, where she has been working since 2011, after completing a degree in Classics at Oxford. She is actively building a fiction list and a small non-fiction list. She enjoys working with debut authors, and getting stuck in editorially. She is currently looking for literary fiction, edgy commercial fiction, psychological thrillers and high-concept contemporary young adult.

Natalie Galustian

​Natalie Galustian joined DHH in 2013, having spent over a decade in the antiquarian book trade. She holds a BA Hons in English Literature and Language and an MA in Modernism and Modern Writing, both from the University of London. Before life as a literary agent and rare book dealer, she spent several years working for BBC television and radio and Film4.
​She is looking to acquire literary fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, biography, autobiography and humour, as well as titles on food and drink. 

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Katie Greenstreet

Katie works at C+W (formerly Conville and Walsh) where she is looking for high-concept and crossover YA, literary and upmarket commercial fiction, and narrative non-fiction and memoir. Her current wish list includes fiction about food and families, thrillers with complicated characters and a unique hook, campus novels, quirky coming of age stories, and more literary works that reveal a darker side of human nature. She began her career as a corporate lawyer, but quickly traded life on Wall Street for one filled with books. Prior to joining C+W, Katie worked at ICM Partners in New York.