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Dorie Simmonds

Dorie Simmonds Agency Ltd

Submission status
Open
Submission route
Email
Response time
Not stated
Last checked
Today

About

Dorie is a literary agent who represents general nonfiction, commercial fiction and children's books.

She has worked in the publishing industry on both sides of the Atlantic, including within publishing houses, and is herself a published author. Dorie studied at Vassar College and The London School of Economics, and worked at William Morrow & Company and Dell Publishing in the US, as well as Dorling Kindersley and Reed Children's in the UK, before opening her own agency.

Genres

Children's BooksCommercial FictionContemporary FictionLiterary FictionMiddle GradeNarrative Non-FictionOther Non-FictionYoung Adult

Looking for

  • talented authors with unique voices and compelling stories that have market potential
  • manuscripts that are well-written, polished, and suitable for the current publishing landscape
  • authors who are committed to their craft, willing to collaborate, and have a platform or potential for building one
  • stories that are set in a time and place where they can actually learn something, whether it's learning about a different culture than the one they inhabit, or whether it's a period of history in which they can be served up a point of view or facts without having to read the dry stuff, a book that they ultimately walk away from much better informed about life, people, culture, art, history, basically anything that makes the world turn

Not looking for

  • reference books
  • children's picture books
  • religious texts
  • poetry
  • screenplays
  • novellas
  • short story collections

Agency submission guidelines

Submissions are accepted by email only, to info@doriesimmonds.com. Fiction: send the first chapter or first twenty pages of the novel, whichever is less, along with a full synopsis and a covering letter, with a brief CV of the writer's career if appropriate. Do not submit a full-length manuscript unless requested. Non-fiction: send a detailed proposal, alongside a covering letter and CV. At the time of submission, disclose if the manuscript or proposal is under consideration by other agents or publishers anywhere in the world.

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