Becky Bagnell
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission route
- Response time
- Aims to reply within 12 weeks
- Last checked
- 2 days ago
About
Becky founded the Lindsay Literary Agency in 2008.
She has worked in publishing for over 25 years, beginning her career at Trinity College Dublin before moving to Macmillan in London in 1996 as a commissioning editor. There she worked alongside authors including Max Hastings, Robert Service and John Simpson, and commissioned Bear Grylls' debut, Facing Up.
Genres
Looking for
- picture books
- Young Adult fiction
- non-fiction for young people
Agency submission guidelines
For novels (middle grade, young adult etc.): send the first three chapters together with a single page synopsis (up to a full page/500 words, can include spoilers), both double-spaced, as two separate Word documents attached to the email, plus a covering letter in the body of the email with a brief pitch (2-3 sentences), comparison titles (X meets Y), and a short biography. Send by email to info@lindsayliteraryagency.co.uk. No reading fee charged. Postal submissions are no longer accepted. For picture book texts: send a covering letter as above plus the complete story saved in a Word document. No synopsis or illustrations required. As a guide, picture book text should be between 300-750 words, and up to three texts may be attached in separate documents. For illustrators: send pdf examples in as small a file size as possible together with a link to any work available online.