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WELCOME TO THE LITERARY DEPARTMENT OF WME LONDON

WME is a worldwide talent and literary agency with offices in London, New York, Beverly Hills, Nashville and Miami. Our Literary Department boasts a talented client list of bestselling and award-winning authors in all areas of fiction and non-fiction, among them winners of such awards as the Orange Prize, the Man Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Edgar Award, the Giller Prize, the National Medal of Literature and more.

Our London team is led by Simon Trewin, and by the end of 2012 we will represent more than 100 British authors, many of whom dominate UK bestseller lists. In the US, the department headed by Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Suzanne Gluck and Eric Simonoff continues to have the largest presence of any literary agency on the New York Times Best Seller List. The WME Literary Department is the largest single provider of authors to the major US publishing houses.

Headed by Tracy Fisher, our dedicated Foreign Rights department consists of eight people working across the London and New York offices. In 2011 they completed over 1000 foreign language deals for our clients. The LA Book Department is led by Alicia Gordon, and she and her team successfully transition an extraordinary number of clients from print to film and television each year.

UK AGENTS

	Simon Trewin Simon is a Partner and Head of the London Literary Department. He has worked with a diverse list of multi award-winning clients including 2012 Costa Book Of the Year winner Andrew Miller (Pure), Danny Wallace (Yes Man), John Boyne (The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas), Scarlett Thomas (The End Of Mr Y), Boy George (Straight), Robert Goddard (Long Time Coming), Fiona Neill (The Secret Life Of A Slummy Mummy), Jeremy Dyson (Ghost Stories), former British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion (Silver), Elanor Dymott (Every Contact Leaves A Trace), Julia Crouch (Cuckoo), Andrew Martin (The Blackpool Highflyer), Mike Gayle (Mr Commitment), Keith Lowe (Savage Continent), Kate Williams (The Pleasures Of Men), David McCandless (Information Is Beautiful), Mark Watson (Eleven), Jessica Ruston (Luxury), Mackenzie Crook (The Windvale Sprites), Steven Hall (The Raw Shark Texts), and the Manchester United Football Club. He has also worked extensively with media and music clients including Boy George, Cliff Richard, Goldie, Bob Geldof and Richard Curtis’s Live 8 event. A literary agent since 1993, Simon was most recently a director at United Agents and an agent at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop Ltd. He is a former Secretary of the Association of Authors Agents, a three-time nominee for the Bookseller Industry Awards Literary Agent of the Year, and a Trustee of The Arvon Foundation and of The Salisbury Playhouse. CONTACT: sct@wmeentertainment.com Show Client List >> Catherine Banner Jonathan Beckman Mark Bostridge John Boyne Tom Bromley Robin Brooks Henry Chancellor Beatrice Colin Mary Costello Mackenzie Crook Julia Crouch Sophie Dahl Luke Delaney Elanor Dymott Jeremy Dyson Massimo Fenati Victoria Finlay Robert Goddard Isabel Greenberg Steven Hall Simon J R Holmes C. C. Humphreys Brian David Johnson Claire Kilroy Keith Lowe David McCandless Kseniya Melnik Andrew Miller Sam Mills Gary Moffat Andrew Motion Fiona Neill Agnès Poirier Sarah Quigley Jessica Ruston Matthew Sweet Preti Taneja Scarlett Thomas Damian Thompson Venetia Thompson J.C. Trewin Lauren Trimble Philip Viner Danny Wallace Mark Watson Ellie Watts-Russell Anna Whitwham Kate Williams

	Elizabeth Sheinkman Elizabeth worked within the editorial departments of Oxford University Press and Alfred A. Knopf before joining the Elaine Markson Agency in New York in 1996. In 2004 she moved to London to set up their UK office as Partner and Director of the company. She joined Curtis Brown six years ago as a senior agent and director, where she has represented a broad range of award-winning and best-selling authors on both sides of the Atlantic, including Steve Toltz (A Fraction of the Whole), Marcel Theroux (Far North), Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper's Daughter), Elif Shafak (Honour), Melanie Gideon (Wife 22), Tim Butcher (Blood River), Rupert Isaacson (The Horse Boy), New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto, and UK journalists Adam LeBor, Mick Brown, Sean O’Hagan and Hephzibah Anderson. Jo Rodgers worked in the editorial department of Random House in New York before moving to London literary agency Curtis Brown in 2010. She joined WME alongside Elizabeth Sheinkman in 2012, where she is building a list. Jo is interested in debut literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, especially concerning food and travel. CONTACT: ebs@wmeentertainment.com & jrodgers@wmeentertainment.com Show Client List >> Miral El Tahawy Hephzibah Anderson Noga Arikha + Marcello Simonetta Tracey Blake Mick Brown Brock Clarke John Dickerson Jennifer Cody Epstein Jim Frederick Helen Brown Gentry Melanie Gideon Justine Hardy James Harkin Joanna Hershon Allegra Huston Rupert Isaacson Erica Jong Jane Kotapish Adam Le Bor Rachel Lloyd Marisa Acocella Marchetto Gerald Martin MEDIABISTRO.COM Cole Moreton Philip Mould Mira Nair Kristin Neff Jose Luis Peixoto Kalyan Ray Katherine Taylor Marcel Theroux Steve Toltz Lucy Wood Alice Hoffman Kim Edwards

	Cathryn Summerhayes Cathryn has been a literary agent at WME since November 2006. She works alongside WME's New York agents selling UK rights for high-profile US clients such as Anita Shreve, Matthew Pearl, Jed Rubenfeld, Stephen Dubner & Steven Levitt, Kathy Reichs, Alice Munro, Karen Thompson Walker and Curtis Sittenfeld. Cathryn has a burgeoning stable of her own authors, including Richard Milward, the 23 year-old first-time novelist of Apples, who has been described by the Financial Times as ‘the JD Salinger of our time’; Clare Wigfall, whose critically-acclaimed short-story collection, The Loudest Sound And Nothing won the 2008 BBC National Short Story Award; David Whitehouse, whose Bed won the inaugural To Hell With Prizes this year and who has just been awarded the Betty Trask Award; Naomi Wood author of The Godless Boys and the soon to be published Mrs Hemingway and winner of the inaugural Eccles Foundation scholarship through The British Library and Deborah Kay Davies, winner of Welsh Book of the Year 2009. She represents several young male voices including Joe Stretch, Chris Killen and Phil Wilding. She recently closed major deals for comedian Micky Flanagan and music icon Jessie J. Prior to working at WME, Cathryn worked at David Godwin Associates and David Higham Associates, and before that, at Colman Getty PR, where she coordinated a number of high-profile events, including the Man Booker Prize and the Samuel Johnson Prize. Cathryn also coordinates the Literary Tent at Camp Bestival and is involved in both the Port Eliot Festivals and Edinburgh Festivals. Becky Thomas is growing her own list which includes Suzanne Harrington, author of the forthcoming memoir The Liberty Tree, Tyler Keevil, author of Fireball (winner of the Wales Book of the Year People’s Prize 2011) and the iconic musician Viv Albertine. CONTACT: cms@wmeentertainment.com & bthomas@wmeentertainment.com Show Client List >> Tom Avery Carl Barat Fleur Britten Steven Camden Cheryl Cole Billy Cowie Ben Crystal Lisa Cutts Deborah Kay Davies Adam Deacon Laura Dockrill Jamal Edwards Paul Ewen Micky Flanagan Rose George Salena Godden Alex Godfrey Nick Harding The Hemsley Sisters Katharine Hibbert Jessie J Nick Jankel Brian Johnson Chris Killen Pierre Koffmann Ashkay Kumar Richard Milward Paul Morley Stella Newman Rachel Newsome Patricia Nicol Russell Norman Dale Phillips Kirsty Robinson Joanna Rossiter Adam Russ Natasha Soobramanien Neil Spring Sara Stovell Joe Stretch Graham Tattersall Cesca Wakefield Simon Welfare David Whitehouse Clare Wigfall Phil Wilding Naomi Wood

	Claudia Webb Claudia Webb joined WME in 2008, having previously worked at Penguin and HarperCollins in editorial. Claudia places projects on behalf of the US office and also has her own select list of UK authors which she is expanding. She is particularly interested in finding exciting new writers in the categories of YA fiction, women’s fiction, crime and thriller, craft and cookery. CONTACT: csw@wmeentertainment.com Show Client List >> Jessica Adams Hannah Ballinger Sam Binnie Jemma Forte Jane Foster Lucy Karsten Merton Books
THE FOREIGN RIGHTS TEAM

	Tracy Fisher Tracy Fisher, Director of Foreign Rights at WME, is also the primary book agent for Joy Fielding, director Tim Burton, and New York Times bestselling author and comedienne Amy Sedaris. Tracy started in the foreign rights department of the William Morris Agency in 1995. She is based in WME's New York office. Tracy became a Partner in the agency once William Morris and Endeavor merged in 2009.

	Raffaella De Angelis Raffaella is from Rome and moved to New York for her graduate studies in Comparative Literature 15 years ago. After her graduation, she started at ICM, worked as an International Scout at Maria Campbell Associates, and has been with the WME foreign rights team for the past seven years, three of which spent in the WME Rome and London offices. She is a Senior Foreign Rights Agent at WME.

	Laura Bonner Laura has worked throughout publishing for eight years. After graduating from The University of Virginia, she started her publishing career at Little, Brown/Warner Books, worked in the rights department at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and at the former Endeavor Agency for a year before the William Morris Agency merged with Endeavor. She has been a Foreign Rights Agent at the newly formed WME since 2009.

	Annemarie Blumenhagen Prior to WME, Annemarie spent six years in France, The Netherlands, USA and her home country Germany. After graduating from University of Amsterdam, she worked for Hoffmann & Campe Verlag, Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting, Levine Greenberg Agency and Anoukh Foerg Literary Agency/Verlagsagentur Lianne Kolf. She joined WME’s foreign rights team in January 2011, working from the London office.
SUBMISSIONS

We are always on the lookout for exciting new work and we welcome submissions across all genres by email. To send a submission, please read our standard terms and conditions, then click here to send us your submission via email. With your submission, please include your include your name, address, phone number, title of the material, and a brief statement acknowledging that you have read and agree to the terms and conditions on our website. Any submissions sent without acknowledgement of the standard terms and conditions will not be accepted. For fiction please send a synopsis and three sample chapters (50 pages or fewer) and for non-fiction send a letter outlining your intentions. Unfortunately we are unable to accept theatre, film or TV scripts. We look forward to hearing from you!