Our literary agents specialise in bestselling commercial fiction including thrillers, mysteries, crime, horror, fantasy, women's, chick-lit, accessible literary, comedy, children's and YA fiction. We have film and TV agents in the UK and US who help to bring our bestselling books to the big and small screen.
The Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency was founded by Darley Anderson in 1988 and is based in London, with an office in Hay on Wye.
We welcome new submissions...
Please send a query letter, including a brief biography, a synopsis and the first three chapters with a SAE.
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A Book of Bones
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No 1 Irish Bestseller (17/4/19)
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Wednesday 20th July
What is your role at the agency? I’m a literary agent and I head up the Children’s and Illustration teams as well as representing a boutique list of adult fiction. No two days are ever the same, which is one of the...
Wednesday 6th July
What is your role at the agency? I’m a Translation Rights Agent. My role is to get our authors publishing deals in other languages. We (the Rights Team) are across all the books at the agency. We develop pitches for the...