Kate Hordern
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission route
- Response time
- Assume no reply = no after 6 weeks
- Last checked
- 2 days ago
About
Kate founded Kate Hordern Literary Agency in 1999, representing fiction and non-fiction.
She spent fourteen years at Victor Gollancz in London, selling foreign rights. She later relocated to Bristol before setting up her own agency.
Genres
Looking for
- fiction across the range, from bookclub through to psychological suspense, crime, speculative, historical, commercial and upmarket women's fiction, with a unique hook, whether that is a very special voice or a high-concept plot or compelling characters or a combination of these
- history, where the author has the appropriate platform
- memoir
Agency submission guidelines
Submissions accepted by e-mail only, from authors resident in the UK; no postal submissions. Include a pitch telling why a prospective reader should read your book, an outline or synopsis, and the first three chapters. Kate Harden: kate@khla.co.uk Anne Williams: anne@khla.co.uk
Links
Clients include
- G.D. Abson
- Ruth D’Alessandro
- Catherine Hanley
- Ewa Jozefkowicz
- Will Randall
- Judy Summers
- Richard Bassett
- John Davidson
- Sven Hassel
- Julian Lees
- Abbie Ross
- Sandy Taylor
- P.J. Brackston
- Jeff Dawson
- David Helton
