Victoria Hobbs
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission route
- Website
- Response time
- Aims to reply within 6 weeks
- Last checked
- 13 days ago
About
Victoria is a literary agent at A.M. Heath representing fiction and non-fiction.
She represents novelists including Kamila Shamsie, Maggie O'Farrell, Conn Iggulden and Sandra Newman, alongside non-fiction writers such as journalists and cultural and political figures. Her authors have been Sunday Times bestsellers and have won or been nominated for prizes including the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Book Award. She has represented some of her writers for over twenty-five years.
Genres
Looking for
- a new literary voice
- something stylistically dazzling, or compelling in its deceptive simplicity
- fiction of the sprawling, big-boned sort like Paul Murray's The Bee Sting or Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- ambitious (and, frankly, terrifying) fiction like American War by Omar El Akkad
- fresh strangeness in the vein of the delightful Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly
- something intricately wrought and beautifully characterised, a slow-release pleasure, like Jane Gardam's peerless Old Filth trilogy
- a well characterised, beautifully constructed and genuinely thrilling thriller
- narrative non-fiction that reads like the very best fiction
- anyone striving to make sense of the world around us, whether that be through the lens of food, politics, nature, the body
- fresh takes on cookery
Agency submission guidelines
No longer accepting paper submissions. Submit online via the submission form, providing contact details and information about the submission (e.g. whether finished or work in progress), a covering letter (maximum 500 words), a synopsis (maximum 1,500 words), and the first 10,000 words of the submission. Submissions must be the original work of the author and not generated or co-written using artificial intelligence. Email submissions to submissions@amheath.com only if: other agents have requested the full manuscript; an offer of representation has been received; no response has been received within 6 weeks of sending the submission; or the submission is a cookery proposal or illustrated children's book. Otherwise, submissions made via the submissions@amheath.com email will not be considered. The covering letter should state the genre and market of the book, two or three lines about the story, any writing experience (creative writing courses, previous publication including short stories, self-publishing), and a little about the writer's background and interests. The synopsis should expand on the covering letter to give a better sense of plot and characters and where the story is going, without detailing every plot twist; use of the full 1,500 word limit is not required.
Links
- Websiteamheath.com/agents/victoria-hobbs
- Submissionsamheath.com/submissions
Clients include
- Kamila Shamsie
- Maggie O’Farrell
- Conn Iggulden
- Sandra Newman
- Tim Shipman
- Jane Garvey
- Fi Glover
- Deborah Frances-White
- Lady Hale
- Shirley Jackson
- Mary McCarthy
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