Andrew Lownie Literary Agency

Submission guidelines

Submissions are accepted by email only; postal submissions are not accepted. Non-fiction: send a one-page synopsis highlighting with bullet points what makes the book new and special, with proposed word count and delivery date; a one-page note on qualifications to write the book; a one-page note on the five most recent competing and comparable books (author, title, publisher, date of publication) and how they relate to the author's own book; a one-page note on sources used; a one-page note on specialist marketing outlets such as websites, organisations or magazines; a synopsis of about half a page per chapter (roughly ten pages in total); and a sample chapter. General rules: do not send blanket submissions addressed to lots of agents at the same time. Submissions should not be badly-spelt, poorly-presented or ungrammatical.