Sarah Williams
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission route
- Response time
- Assume no reply = no after 4 weeks
- Last checked
- 2 days ago
About
Sarah is a director at the Sophie Hicks Agency, where she represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction authors.
She began her publishing career in publicity and editorial in Canada before moving to London in 2010 to work with Ed Victor. She joined the Sophie Hicks Agency in 2014 and also runs its film and television department, working with scouts, agents and studios to sell dramatic rights.
Genres
Looking for
- literary and commercial fiction
- food
- lifestyle
- personal development
- popular science
- sport
- 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
- a sweeping love story with colliding geographies, akin to The English Patient
- a twisty thriller
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.
Links
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
