New literary agent Lisa Highton at Scottish agency Jenny Brown Associates seeks authors

The House Between Tides by Sarah Maine
represented by Jenny Brown Associates

Jenny Brown Associates

31 Marchmont Road
Edinburgh, UK  EH9 1Hu

http://www.jennybrownassociates.com/

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Founded in 2002, Jenny Brown Associates is the leading literary agency in Scotland and one of the foremost independent literary agencies in the UK. They represent literary fiction, crime writing, women’s fiction, narrative nonfiction and writing for children, from picture books to Young Adult. Currently, just one of the three agents on the team is open for submissions.

Lisa Highton joined the agency as an Associate Agent in 2022. Like all new agents, she needs authors. Most recently, Lisa was Publisher of Two Roads, an imprint of John Murray Press/Hachette where she published authors including Kirsty Wark, Sally Magnusson, Monty Don, Ruth Hogan, Janet Skeslien Charles, Guinevere Glasfurd, Janet Ellis, Sarah Haywood, Susan Calman and Wendy Cope. 

Over a long career in publishing both in the UK and Australia where she was publishing director of Doubleday, HarperCollins and then Hodder, Lisa has published many bestsellers. Her passions are distinctive storytelling, finding those hidden stories with emotional heart and then connecting those stories with readers.

“As a new agent and former publisher, I am open for submissions,” says Lisa. “I am interested in a wide variety of narrative fiction (not YA or fantasy) and nonfiction, those distinctive stories from natural storytellers. I love books that have emotional resonance, a sense of place and purpose. As a publisher, I was always looking for books that readers would love and recommend to each other, my agenting criteria will be the same.”

Query Lisa at: submissions@jennybrownassociates.com

For fiction, attach the first three chapters (about 50 pages) and a synopsis, both in a single document, with a covering letter.

For nonfiction attach a proposal and a couple of sample chapters.

See full submission guidelines here.

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