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Mic Cheetham

Mic Cheetham Associates Ltd

Submission status
Closed
Submission route
Email
Response time
Aims to reply within 10 weeks
Last checked
16 days ago

About

Mic Cheetham founded Mic Cheetham Literary Agency in 1994 and serves as its director.

Operating from a boutique London office, the agency maintains a deliberately small list, accepting just two or three new writers per year.

What they represent

Commercial FictionLiterary FictionScience Fiction

Looking for

  • fiction
  • General Fiction
  • Non-Fiction

Links

Clients include

  • Neal Asher
  • Iain Banks
  • China Miéville
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Ken Macleod

Agency submission guidelines

New writers should send their work to submissions@miccheetham.co.uk, outlining the novel on one page and sending the first three chapters/fifty pages for consideration. Word document attachments are preferred, double spaced. Submissions should be accompanied by a brief bio. New writers are advised to acquaint themselves with the work of the writers currently represented by the agency before submitting their own work. The agency deliberately keeps its list compact, but stellar, and will only take on two or three new writers each year.

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