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Julie Gourinchas

Bell Lomax Moreton

Submission status
Closed
Submission route
Email
Response time
Aims to reply within 12 weeks
Last checked
7 days ago

About

Julie champions a selective list focused on upmarket and literary adult and new adult fiction across a wide variety of genres.

Writers she represents have won or been nominated for awards including the British Book Awards, the Hugo Awards, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Stoker Awards, the BSFA Awards, the Betty Trask Award, and the Saltire National Book Awards. She is a member of the Association of Authors' Agents Bridge Committee, which focuses on junior agent development.

Genres

Contemporary FictionFantasyHistorical FictionHorrorLiterary FictionNarrative Non-FictionOther Non-FictionPoliticsRomantic FantasyThriller

Looking for

  • hooky, high-concept work
  • uncommon voices and striking, intelligent writing
  • upmarket and literary horror, especially featuring feminist or cultural themes, body horror, mangled nature, or cosmic, Lovecraftian vibes, including cottagegore, horror-romance, swamps, and a fresh, literary take on vampires
  • weird girl lit, anything subversive, challenging, or provocative, fiction that plays at the edges
  • razor-sharp dark academia, especially any with something to say about the complex and exploitative systems within academia, genre-blending especially welcome here
  • gothic fiction, specifically regional gothic anchored in an evocative sense of place
  • grounded fantasy or otherwise speculative fiction with coherent, sharp worldbuilding that feels recognisable and familiar, or directly set in our world, especially anything that plays with any intersection of magic, faith, and technology
  • romantasy that approaches this exciting new genre from a fresh, bold perspective
  • searing contemporary fiction centred on themes of identity and belonging
  • dark and/or speculative westerns, especially any that play with the truth and false hopes of the American Dream
  • magical realism, both whimsy with a touch of darkness and darkness with a touch of whimsy
  • unhappy romances
  • genre-punk, steampunk, solarpunk, silkpunk, clockpunk, dieselpunk, cyberpunk, etc
  • genre-blending historical fiction with a literary edge, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries, including and indeed encouraging alternate history
  • in non-fiction, the narrative and big ideas spaces, particularly in the realms of politics, history, and the social sciences

Not looking for

  • young adult, middle grade, and children's books
  • AI-generated content
  • epic or high fantasy
  • space-faring science fiction
  • pulpy crime
  • straightforward romance/romcoms
  • SJM-esque fae
  • manipulative shadow daddies
  • portal fantasies
  • non-con
  • dub-con
  • books set around punk music

Agency submission guidelines

The agency does not represent poetry, short stories or novellas, educational textbooks, or film scripts or stage plays. For works of fiction, children's and young adult fiction or narrative non-fiction, send in word document or PDF format: a short synopsis including details of the entire plot, the first three chapters (no more than 50 pages) double spaced, and a covering letter including details of any previously published work. For illustrated non-fiction, send a detailed outline, sample material (if available), and information regarding previously published work. For children's picture books, send the full text of up to 3 manuscripts in one email, sample illustrations (if available) in pdf, png or jpg format, and a covering letter including details of any previously published work. WeTransfer or Google Drive links are not accepted. Submissions can be emailed to submission@bell-lomax.co.uk. Submissions should not be addressed for the attention of more than one agent within the agency. Hard copy submissions should include an email address for correspondence, or an appropriately stamped and addressed envelope for returns, and should be sent to Suite C, Victory House, 131 Queensway, Petts Wood, Kent BR5 1DG. No reading fee is charged.

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Clients include

  • Morgan Dante
  • Rory Dumont / Aurora Reed
  • Elle Nash
  • Samantha Lindberg
  • Laurie Penny
  • Dorian Ravenscroft
  • Bitter Karella
  • C. N. Vair
  • Cate Baumer
  • Genevieve Jagger
  • Todd S. Jordan
  • Lorraine Wilson
  • Emma Davies
  • Jamie Cass
  • Aminah Amjad

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