Kate Barker
- Submission status
- Closed (conditions apply)
- When to submit
- Reopening Monday 17th August
- Submission route
- Website
- Response time
- Not stated
- Last checked
- Yesterday
About
Kate is a literary agent based in London with over twenty years of experience in publishing.
She has worked as an agent, commissioning editor and ghostwriter. She spent ten years at Penguin, where she was an Editorial Director for Viking, acquiring fiction and non-fiction. She has also worked for Orion, a major UK literary agency, digital publisher Bookouture and a speakers bureau.
Genres
Agency submission guidelines
Submissions are made via an online form on the website. Fiction: send a covering letter, the first 500 words of the book, and attach a document containing the first 50 pages of the novel. Non-fiction: send a covering letter explaining who you are and why you are the best person to write the book, the first 500 words of the book, and attach a book summary (chapter breakdown, introduction and ideally a sample chapter) plus a book sample of approximately 50 pages as a PDF or Word document.
Links
- Websitekatebarker.net
- Submissionskatebarker.net/submissions