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Annette Crossland

A for Authors Agency

What they represent

Commercial Fiction, Crime, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Submission status
Closed
Submission route
Website
Response time
Assume no reply = no after 18 weeks
Last checked
When to submit
Submissions reopen 1st July 2027.

About

Annette is a literary agent at A for Authors Agency, representing commercial and literary fiction, crime and thrillers, and historical fiction.

She has worked in publishing for more than 40 years in senior roles in the UK and US, touring with authors including Frances Fyfield, Elizabeth George and Dennis Lehane, and has been an agent since 2014, rebranding her agency as A for Authors in 2019 with the financier and author Clem Chambers.

What they represent

Commercial Fiction, Crime, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Looking for

  • commercial and literary fiction
  • crime and thrillers
  • historical fiction

Not looking for

  • non-fiction

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Clients include

Sara Merchant, Steve Matthews, N.N. Jehangir, Danielle Ramsay, J.J. Thomas, Frank Britt, Rob Barrow, Faiqa Mansab, Richard V. Chesterton, Linda Stratmann, Shirin Amani Azari, Awais Khan, A.A. Chaudhuri, Sara Mendes da Costa, Lyndsay Russell

Agency submission guidelines

A for Authors is closed to submissions until 1st July 2027. When open: submit through the form on the agency's contact page, with a covering letter, a brief synopsis, a short author biography and the first three chapters as a Word document or PDF. Postal submissions are recycled unread. Worth knowing: the agency takes fiction only, in commercial and literary fiction, crime and thrillers, and historical fiction. It cannot acknowledge every submission; if you have not heard within four months, it is unlikely to be interested.

Agency AI policy

They do not accept submissions originated or written by generative AI, but permit its use for research, editing or structural planning.

Also open to historical fiction right now

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