Rachel Conway

About

Rachel is a director at Georgina Capel Associates, representing literary, television, radio and foreign rights clients.

She studied Literature at King's College London and, after time at various publishing houses and literary agencies, joined Georgina Capel in 2010. She became a Director of the agency in 2016.

Genres

Looking for

• book club and commercial fiction (including thrillers and young adult)
• history
• food
• nature writing
• investigative journalism
• popular science
• popular psychology

Agency submission guidelines

Send a covering letter briefly describing the story or proposal and outlining any writing experience (e.g. previously published work, short story or journalism, creative writing qualifications; for non-fiction, what qualifies the writer to write about the subject). Include a synopsis of approximately 500 words, the first three chapters of the work, and an email address and/or telephone number. Postal submissions are preferred, sent in an envelope marked 'Submissions Department' to Georgina Capel Associates Ltd, 29 Wardour Street, London W1D 6PS, but email submissions are also accepted (refer to the contact us page for the right email address).

Agency AI policy

Submissions must be the original work of the author; submissions originated, written or edited using artificial intelligence (AI) will not be accepted, including in the cover letter, synopsis, proposal and manuscript.

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