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Charlotte Seymour

Johnson & Alcock Ltd

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

About

Charlotte is a literary agent at Johnson & Alcock, building a list across fiction and non-fiction.

She studied modern languages and began her career as a literary scout at Eccles Fisher Associates, before becoming an agent at Andrew Nurnberg Associates in 2015. She joined Johnson & Alcock in 2022. She enjoys working editorially and champions a select number of titles in translation each year.

Genres

CrimeFood & DrinkLiterary FictionMemoirNarrative Non-FictionOther Non-FictionPsychological SuspenseThriller

Looking for

  • literary and smart book club fiction
  • outstanding character- and voice-driven crime, thriller and suspense
  • a big will-they-won't-they love story, and love stories of all kinds, not just romantic love
  • sweeping family stories, and other multigenerational/international/polyphonic novels
  • sharply observed contemporary stories that will make her both laugh and cry
  • stories of identity, written with intimacy and tenderness
  • historical fiction from a slant
  • a beautifully written crime novel or thriller that transcends and subverts our expectations of the genre
  • a Highsmithian thriller (think imposters, intruders, cat-and-mouse games…)
  • accessible, engaging writing on a range of subjects including social and cultural history, biography and memoir (especially group biographies and literary memoir where the personal is interwoven with a bigger story or subject), reportage, popular science, nature, the arts, food and cookery
  • submissions from experts, academics, and journalists as well as those with lived experience and extraordinary stories

Agency submission guidelines

Submissions are accepted by email only; physical submissions are not accepted or responded to unless an agent has invited material that way. Writers should check individual agent profiles under the 'team' tab and submit to only one agent at a time, without blind-copying. Most genres of fiction and non-fiction are accepted, but not plays or film scripts. There is no need to call in advance or follow up to confirm receipt. Attachments up to 5MB are accepted by the server. Send a short covering letter, including a blurb for the book and some information about the author. For fiction: a synopsis of the novel (no more than two pages) and the opening 50 pages of the manuscript, usually the first three chapters. For non-fiction: a book proposal including an introduction, chapter breakdown, and some sample material, totalling approximately 50 pages. All submissions should be clear and legible, in Word Doc (.doc or.docx) format, formatted in a standard way (at least 1.5 line spacing, page-numbered, on A4 paper recommended), with contact details included.

Agency AI policy

Submissions must be the original work of the author and not generated, co-written or edited using artificial intelligence.

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