Salma Begum
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission route
- Response time
- Aims to reply within 8 weeks
- Last checked
- 2 days ago
About
Salma is an agent at Greyhound Literary, representing fiction and non-fiction.
She previously worked in editorial at Picador, Zaffre and Manilla Press, giving her insight into what it takes for a book to win a publishing contract. As an agent, she works closely on manuscript development while considering marketability and timing for her authors.
Genres
Looking for
- confident, immersive, ambitious, narrative-driven writing
- an epic love story like The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
- novels capturing specific moments in recent history such as Hari Kunzru's examination of the London art scene in the nineties and pandemic-era New York in Blue Ruin
- tightly plotted narratives that use form to explore the extremes of human psychology and society akin to Kenzaburō Ōe's A Personal Matter and Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage
- a love story, especially one that makes her belly-laugh and ugly-cry
- writers who take love, and the idea of love, seriously
- subject experts, journalists and memoirists who appreciate long-form literature and can breathe life into an idea, an event, a memory
- captivating music writing such as On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson and One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
- ground-shifting journalism like Doppelganger by Naomi Klein and Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Agency submission guidelines
FICTION: send a cover letter with a pitch briefly introducing yourself and your work, in the body of an email, together with the first three chapters of the novel and a synopsis as attachments. NON-FICTION: send a cover letter with a pitch briefly introducing yourself and your work, in the body of an email, with a proposal outlining the book and explaining why the author is best-placed to write it, along with some sample writing from it, attached. CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS: send a cover email briefly introducing yourself and your work, and attach the full manuscript and sample illustrations (if also the illustrator). Submissions should be emailed directly and only to the one agent being approached (do not submit to more than one agent at Greyhound Literary); email addresses are on each agent's profile page. Submissions by post are not accepted and physical submissions are discarded without review. Screenplays are not handled and will not be considered or responded to. Writers based in an English-speaking country outside the UK or Republic of Ireland with well-established agencies are expected to have a convincing reason for wanting UK representation. No reading fees or up-front fees are charged.
Agency AI policy
All submitted work must be entirely the author's own: neither generated by nor co-written with AI; if AI/LLM tools were used in creating the work, this must be specified, including how and why.
Links
Clients include
- Adedayo Agarau
- Zahra Barri
- Sharmilla Beezmohun
- Josh Berson
- Malika Booker
- Heather Buckingham
- Ciar Byrne
- Kieran Connell
- Abaka Debrah
- Saddiq Dzukogi
- Yvvette Edwards
- Samatar Elmi
- Amelia Furlong
- Maryam Huq
- Joshua Idehen
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