Mandy Suhr

About

Mandy founded StoryWise, a children's literary agency, in 2023.

She has 30 years of experience in children's publishing, including 13 years as an agent at Miles Stott. She has held senior editorial and publisher roles at houses including Orchard Books, Macmillan, Walker, HarperCollins and Puffin. She brings this editorial experience to each creative she represents, helping them shape their work for publication.

Genres

Agency submission guidelines

Currently closed for author-only submissions, but actively seeking Illustrator submissions. Submit by email to submissions@storywise.uk with a short covering letter giving your best sales pitch, a brief description of the work, a couple of sentences about your intended audience, and a little about you, your writing and publishing experience. Let them know if another agency has requested your full manuscript or you have been offered representation. Picture books: a selection of three finished texts (each no longer than 800 words), each with a one or two sentence pitch summarising the story and its hook. Please supply in Word format. Fiction: a brief synopsis together with the first three chapters of your manuscript in Word format, telling them who your intended audience is and where you see your work fitting in the current marketplace (comparative titles). Non-fiction: a CV indicating any specialist knowledge of your subject, and a proposal detailing the idea behind the book, who it's for, content style and where it would sit in the current market. Illustrators: send an initial portfolio of 10-12 images (jpeg or PDF) of up to 5Mb in size and links to either a website or Instagram. Don't send links to file transfer sites like Dropbox. Submissions sent by post cannot be considered and will not be returned.

Links

Clients include

• Rachel Bright
• Lu Fraser
• Mark Sperring