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Sarah Williams

Sophie Hicks Agency

Submission status
Open
Submission route
Email
Response time
Assume no reply = no after 4 weeks
Last checked
8 days ago

About

Sarah is a director at the Sophie Hicks Agency, where she also runs the agency's film and television side.

She began her publishing career in Canada, working first in publicity and then editorial, before moving to London in 2010 to work with Ed Victor. She joined the Sophie Hicks Agency in 2014. Sarah represents authors across both fiction and non-fiction.

What they represent

Commercial FictionFood & DrinkLiterary FictionMemoirNarrative Non-FictionOther Non-FictionRomanceSelf-HelpSportsThrillerTravel

Looking for

  • narrative non-fiction of most types, memoir, travel, nature, science, and explorations of the intricacies of the human experience
  • a surprising and excellently plotted multi-generational family story, a novel as unputdownable as The Paper Palace
  • something akin to The English Patient - a sweeping love story with colliding geographies
  • a twisty thriller

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Clients include

  • Sarah Bannan
  • Lee Boyce
  • William Butler-Adams
  • Helen Chandler-Wilde
  • Carl Cox
  • Sarah Crosby
  • Dr. Michaela Dunbar
  • Ruth Fitzmaurice
  • Kate Ford
  • Lewis Hine
  • Shahroo Izadi
  • Signe Johansen
  • Jesse McClure
  • Phil McNulty
  • Andrew Meehan

Agency submission guidelines

All submissions must be sent electronically with your covering letter in the body of your email and your sample pages attached as a Word or PDF document. Submit only to one agent. To submit to Sophie Hicks, email hicksoffice@sophiehicksagency.com; to submit to Sarah Williams, email williamsoffice@sophiehicksagency.com. The agency is not currently accepting illustrated books for children, and does not represent poetry or scripts for theatre, film and television. Fiction submissions should include a synopsis, the first three chapters (or approximately 50 pages). Non-fiction submissions should provide a detailed outline and at least one sample chapter of material.

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