How to submit

 

We only consider submissions by email.

We will update wish lists regularly so please read carefully the profiles below before you submit.

For fiction submissions, please send the first three chapters or the first 10,000 words of your manuscript to submissions@redkiteliterary.com along with a synopsis and include a pitch and bio in the body of your email. For the subject line please use the format: TITLE/name and surname. If you receive a request for a full manuscript or an offer of representation, please follow up adding “offer of representation” or “full ms request” in the subject line.

If you’re an illustrator please send over a portfolio and bio to submissions@redkiteliterary.com. For the subject line please use the format PORTFOLIO/name and surname.

We will consider carefully every submission we receive, but unfortunately it's not possible to respond to each one. If you haven't heard within 12 weeks, it means we didn’t feel we could be the right champion for you. Please remember that this is an very subjective process and one of perseverance, so don’t give up and best of luck in finding the right agent to support your work. 

  • While I represent writers on the adult side as well, at the moment I’m focusing on growing the children’s side of my list and I am mostly considering middle grade fiction with strong commercial appeal. My goal is to represent books that will get children reading so I’m keen to see anything funny, silly, disgusting, adventurous, witchy or spooky. A strong hook, a propulsive narrative, and series potential are key for me.

    I love working with illustrators and I’m open to highly illustrated projects and graphic novels.

    In particular, I would like to find a great story with a boy protagonist and lots of humour in the vein of Loki or Wimpy Kid, or an action-packed adventure for readers of Percy Jackson and Lockwood & Co. For girl teens, I would also love to find a book that is Lottie Brookes if Wednesday had written it. In the younger space I’d love to represent a laugh out loud comic book series like Donut Squad or InvestiGATORS. I also have soft spot for a great dragon story, like The Boy Who Grew Dragons. I will read extremely selectively outside of these categories, but if you’ve written the next Skandar, please do send it my way!

    I’m not currently considering any non-fiction.