Rachel Mills

About

Rachel is the founder and director of Rachel Mills Literary.

She previously worked as a literary agent at Furniss Lawton and as Agent and International Business Director at Peters Fraser and Dunlop, where she sat on the Executive Board. Before that she worked in publishing at Penguin and Random House. In her 20 years in the industry, she has secured major publishing and screen deals for a diverse range of authors.

Genres

Looking for

• commercial and upmarket non-fiction
• psychology, popular science, well-being, narrative non-fiction, biography, food, sustainability, health
• authors who are renowned experts in their current field and would like to translate this into books
• projects which are international and will translate to screen
• authors who are keen to develop their work across multiple books
• voice and storytelling are key for her

Agency submission guidelines

For Rachel Mills: email her and include as much detail about yourself and the project as possible, ideally with at least one sample chapter. For Nelle Andrew: email her a one page outline of story, the first 3 chapters or 50 pages and a covering letter. She does not accept non-fiction, any children's books, short stories, poetry, script, or sci-fi. Note: as of the page text, Nelle is not accepting submissions from August 1st until mid September, and manuscripts should not be submitted until September 14th (date/year not specified, so currency uncertain).

Agency AI policy

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

Links

Clients include

• Sam Baker
• Cathy Rentzenbrink
• Catherine Gray
• Prof. David Nutt
• Nuno Mendes
• Max La Manna
• Imad Al Alarnab
• Rob Dix
• Matt Adlard
• Helen Carr

Other agents at Rachel Mills Literary

• Nelle Andrew

  Rachel Mills Literary

  Nelle is a literary agent at Rachel Mills Literary, representing 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. Before that, she worked at Macmillan publishers.

  Genres:Romantic Fantasy

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