I love working with creative people so that their work reaches the fullest potential on the page and then finds the biggest possible platform worldwide. I love helping to unlock potential and nothing beats that moment when the world begins to take notice. I have launched the careers of over thirty debut authors and helped to reinvent and sustain the careers of countless others – it is a job like no other and I feel really privileged to be trusted with a crucial role in that tricky link between art and commerce.
Authors I have worked with have featured in prizes such as the Booker, the Costa, the Arthur C Clarke, the Edgehill, the British Book Awards, the Irish Books Awards, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Prix du Premier Roman, the Prix des Lecteurs Privat and countless others. Some of them have even won! I have seen books I have agented turned into films, tv dramas, ballets, operas and merchandise and I am always looking for new opportunities for backlist titles as well as for front-list.
After thirty years working in some of the biggest agencies in the world I launched my own boutique agency in 2019 to represent a small number of authors, brands and entrepreneurs in the areas of art, culture, digital, literature, and live events. I have a deliberately very small client list as I want to bring real focus to a scattergun industry but I am always interested in hearing from published authors who are looking to start a conversation and, when we are open for submissions, also from debuts.
We have a small team helping behind the scenes – led by the brilliant Georgina Dent.
Georgina is a graduate of the wonderful Kingston Publishing M.A and can point you in the right direction for any general queries you may have via georgina@simontrewin.co.uk