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Tilda Butterworth

Rebecca Carter Literary

Submission status
Open
Submission route
Email
Response time
Assume no reply = no after 12 weeks
Last checked
10 days ago

About

Tilda assists Rebecca Carter at Rebecca Carter Literary and has recently started taking on her own clients.

She trained in Modern Foreign Languages, gaining a joint honours degree in French and Russian, and worked at Shakespeare and Company in Paris. She has spent the past six years as editor of The Cult Collective, an independent literary and visual arts magazine based in London and Berlin.

What they represent

Contemporary FictionLiterary FictionMysteryNarrative Non-FictionRomanceWomen's Fiction

Looking for

  • fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction
  • unusual stories, grounded in the real world but with strange and surreal elements, with a focus on human relationships, queer characters and alternative culture
  • diverse and unexpected perspectives which offer new ways of seeing and have something urgent to say about the contemporary world
  • debut writers with whom she would be able to collaborate and nurture a relationship from the very beginning of their career

Not looking for

  • Genre Sci-Fi, Fantasy

Links

Agency submission guidelines

Email your submission to submissions@rebeccacarterliterary.com, addressed to either Rebecca or Tilda (not both). Put the covering letter in the body of the email, with the material as an attachment; only digital submissions are accepted (Word documents or PDFs), no external links, and a sample of writing must be attached. Title the email: "Submission: [your name] [TITLE OF SUBMISSION]" and save files as "[your name] [TITLE OF SUBMISSION] [type of document]". Ensure the typescript is 1.5 or double spaced with page numbers. For Fiction, send the first three chapters (or 10k words) along with a short synopsis of the whole book. For Non-Fiction, send a detailed proposal, along with (if possible) a sample chapter or sample writing. RCL does not represent young adult, Children's, Poetry, Illustrated books or Screenplays (with a few exceptions for existing clients).

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