Charlie Viney
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About
Charlie is a Senior Agent at ACM UK.
He spent twenty-five years in general trade publishing, holding senior executive roles in international sales and marketing and serving as a board director at Little, Brown UK, before becoming an agent in 2002. He joined Aevitas Creative Management UK as a Senior Agent in 2024.
Genres
Agency submission guidelines
Submissions are made via an online submission form (Query Manager), not by post or phone. What to do: select an agent from the drop-down menu on the website and follow the instructions on that agent's pop-up submission form. Agents not appearing on the drop-down are currently closed to submissions. What to send: a one-sentence summary of the book or manuscript, the category (fiction, nonfiction subject areas, children's/middle grade/young adult, or poetry), comparable titles, referral information, the book's title, and the first 50 pages of the manuscript. Rules: do not submit to more than one agent at the agency simultaneously; such submissions will be automatically disregarded. Exclusions: original screenplays and screenwriters are not represented. Hardcopy submissions or queries by mail or phone are not accepted and will not receive a response.
Links
- Websiteaevitascreative.com/agent/charlie-viney
- Submissionsaevitascreative.com/contact
Clients include
- Alistair Wood
- Andrew Jackson
- Anna Perera
- Carol Chillington Rutter
- Cate Sevilla
- Charlie Charters
- Chris Blackhurst
- Chris Bradford
- David Ambrose
- David Andress
- David Charter
- David Downing
- David Hepworth
- David Loyn
- David Mark Price
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