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

About

Nelle is a literary agent at Rachel Mills Literary who represents internationally bestselling and award-winning authors across fiction and non-fiction.

She joined RML in 2020, having previously worked as an agent at Peters Fraser and Dunlop for eleven years and before that at Macmillan. She is now a Trustee for the Royal Literary Fund.

Looking for

  • Literary/Commercial Crossover Fiction
  • Reading Group or Book Club Fiction
  • Love Stories
  • Smart Romance
  • romantasy
  • epic but accessible Fantasy
  • gothic
  • Issue-led Horror
  • Historical Plus
  • Unpredictable Crime and Thriller
  • Propulsive Literary Novels
  • speculative

Not looking for

  • non fiction
  • children's books
  • short stories
  • poetry
  • script
  • sci-fi

Clients include

  • Sara Collins
  • Jing-Jing Lee
  • Beth Underdown
  • Heidi Perks
  • Bryony Gordon
  • Candice Carty-Williams

Agency submission guidelines

Rachel Mills: email her with as much detail about yourself and the project as possible, ideally including at least one sample chapter. She is looking for commercial and upmarket non-fiction (areas include psychology, popular science, well-being, narrative non-fiction, biography, food, sustainability, health) and is not looking for fiction or memoir. Nelle Andrew: email her a one-page outline of the story, the first 3 chapters or 50 pages, and a covering letter. She is looking for literary/commercial crossover fiction, book club fiction, romance, romantasy, fantasy, gothic, issue-led horror, historical, crime and thriller, and speculative fiction, but does not accept non-fiction, children's books, short stories, poetry, scripts or sci-fi.

Agency AI policy

They are unable to represent work generated in whole or in part by AI, and will not review submissions with an AI generated cover letter.

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