How to submit

 

We only consider submissions by email.

We will update our wish lists regularly so please read the profiles below carefully 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 every submission we receive carefully, but unfortunately it's not possible to respond to each one. If you haven't heard from us within 12 weeks, it means that we didn’t feel we could be the right champion for your work. 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. My goal is to represent books that will engage children and young readers so here’s what I’m keen to see:

    • Picture books: I’m mostly looking for author-illustrators and illustrators, and will be very selective about text only. On the illustration side, I’d like to see bright and bold pre-school styles, mixed-media, anything in the vein of Chris Haughton or Flavia Drago. What I want to see in a picture book is a really funny idea or simple but impactful story. Some recent favourites of mine include: Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob, and Raindrops.

    • Graphic novels: I’d love to see graphic novels in the younger space, think Pablo and Splash, Blue, Barry and Pancake, Tiny Hercules. An improbable duo, an unlikely hero, the key word is funny. I’m not considering script only for graphic novels.

    • Middle-grade: funny, silly, disgusting, adventurous, witchy, spooky. I’m keen to see anything in this space that has a strong hook, a propulsive narrative, and series potential and I have a soft spot for nightmares, ghosts and dragons. In particular, I’d love to find a great story with a boy protagonist and lots of humour in the vein of Loki or Wimpy Kid, an action-packed adventure for readers of Percy Jackson and Lockwood & Co, and a great story with Wednesday vibes. And if you’ve written the next Skandar, please do send it my way!

    • YA: I’m looking for true YA written for teenagers, I’m not the right person for cross-over and YA that could sit on an adult list. I’d love to see high concept fiction including romance, retellings with a twist (think Finding Her Edge), thrillers, dystopia in the vein of Songlight by Moira Buffini.

    I’m not currently considering any non-fiction.