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Andrew Lownie

Andrew Lownie Literary Agency

Submission status
Open
Submission route
Email
Response time
Aims to reply within 2 weeks
Last checked
4 days ago

About

Andrew runs the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, which he founded in 1988.

He read history at Magdalene College, Cambridge and later gained an MSc and doctorate at Edinburgh University. He began his publishing career at Hodder & Stoughton before becoming an agent at John Farquharson in 1985. He is also an author, having written several biographies including a prize-winning life of the spy Guy Burgess.

What they represent

BiographyHistorical Non-FictionLiterary FictionNarrative Non-FictionOther Non-Fiction

Not looking for

  • new fiction writers

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Clients include

  • Sir John Mills
  • Alan Whicker
  • Gloria Hunniford
  • David Hasselhoff
  • Emily Lloyd
  • Kerry Katona
  • Patrick MacNee
  • Cathy Glass
  • Casey Watson
  • Sam Faiers
  • Daniel Tammet
  • Laurence Gardner
  • Joyce Cary
  • Julian MacLaren-Ross
  • Juliet Barker

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.

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