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Hannah Ferguson

Hardman & Swainson

Submission status
Open
Submission route
Email
Response time
Assume no reply = no after 8 weeks
Last checked
8 days ago

About

Hannah is a literary agent at Hardman & Swainson, representing fiction and non-fiction.

She grew up above her family's bookshop in the Midlands and later studied Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. She began her career as an intern at The Marsh Agency, staying seven years before becoming an agent and selling her first author. She joined Hardman & Swainson in 2014.

Genres

CrimeNarrative Non-FictionThrillerWomen's Fiction

Looking for

  • fiction
  • stories that will whisk her away to another place, be it in time, geographically, or just into another life that's different from her own
  • women's fiction, from the more literary to the very commercial
  • book club reads that really capture a reader's attention or heart
  • crime and thrillers
  • interesting non-fiction
  • narrative non-fiction that tells a story and helps us to understand who we are and the world that we live in

Agency submission guidelines

Writers are asked to pick and submit to one agent only. For Fiction: Send a short covering email, and attach a one-page synopsis as well as the full manuscript. Please name your chosen agent in your cover email and send to submissions@hardmanswainson.com and not to individual email addresses. NB: Nina Leon uses QueryTracker only, so please submit to her via QueryTracker.net/query/NinaLeon. For Non-Fiction: Send a covering email outlining your book, why it has a place on the bookshelf and why you are qualified to write it, along with a proposal and a sample chapter or the whole work, if it is completed. Include the sample material along with the query as an attachment. Please name your chosen agent in your cover email and send to submissions@hardmanswainson.com and not to individual email addresses. Please note that the agency does not represent TV/film scripts or poetry. Please note Caroline Hardman is currently closed to submissions; she will reopen from the 1st September to 16th October.

Links

Clients include

  • Not A Fictional Mum
  • James Bailey
  • Elle Blair
  • Lorraine Brown
  • Calm & Bright Sleep Support
  • Lucy Dickens
  • Lisa Dickenson
  • Miranda Dickinson
  • Jasmine Elmer
  • Carrie Hope Fletcher
  • Giovanna Fletcher
  • Isla Gordon
  • Kris Hallenga
  • Sharon Hartley
  • Ali McNamara

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