Eve White: Literary Agent

Literary Agents like Eve White represent authors after a successful submissions and acceptance process.
This page describes how to submit your manuscript to us.

Interests

We are currently reading literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction for adults, and children's fiction for 7+.

We do not accept poetry, short stories or screenplays. We are not reading any science fiction and fantasy for adults. Thank you.  

US, Canadian and Australian authors

We are not looking at work by authors from these countries, partly because we think they would be better served by a local agent and partly because we have such a quantity of submission from the UK at present that we cannot cope with the numbers.

Replies

We receive hundreds of submissions each month and request the full manuscript from only a handful of authors.

We do reply to everybody. The longest it should ever take for you to hear back from us is three months. We have very frequent reading sessions and we hope to get back to you within six weeks.  An automatic email will be sent to you, acknowledging receipt of your message. If you don't receive this, it means that your email has not arrived and you should send it again. Once you have received it, there is never any need to ask us whether we have received your manuscript. Please be patient and we will get to it as soon as we can, but we are normally working six weeks behind.

Phone calls 

Like most literary agents, we prefer not to receive enquiries by telephone. This enables us to keep the administration down, giving us time to look at everything that is sent to us. Please read this page and the FAQs carefully before asking us any questions.

Emails 

Unlike most literary agents, we are experimenting in being 'green' (and saving authors money) by asking for email submission. The section below outlines our process.

Submitting work for Adults

(By email only)

Send submissions to:

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Please don't send any general correspondence or questions about submissions to either address, only adult fiction samples or adult non-fiction proposals or samples. Read this page thoroughly and see our FAQs before making any enquiries.

If you have a query about submitting, send it to the address on our contacts page. However, it is much better just to send a sample.

Please send one email with just one attachment: 

• For fiction: the three opening chapters (double line spaced) and a very brief synopsis of the whole plot (with a word-count of the complete book) together in one WORD DOCUMENT.  Please do a title page and number the pages in case we decide to print it.

• For non-fiction: a proposal which tells us what the book will be about, and three chapters (double line spaced) if you've written them, together in one WORD DOCUMENT.  Please do a title page and number the pages in case we decide to print it. 

Please do not send the full manuscript until we invite you to and do not send photographs or any scanned material; such submissions have to be deleted immediately as they overload, and can shut down, our system. 

The email: in both cases your covering letter should be in the body of the email and be as short as possible. It should include a little about the book and a little about yourself. Please make the subject heading of your email your book title and your name.

Submitting work for Children

(By email only)

Please send submissions to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please don't send any general correspondence or questions about submissions to this address: only children's fiction samples. Read this page thoroughly and see our FAQs before making any enquiries.

If you have a query about submitting, send it to the address on our contacts page. However, it is much better just to send a sample. N.B. we are not looking at picture books or books for under 7s at the moment.

Please send one email with just one attachment: 

• The three opening chapters (double line spaced) and a very brief synopsis of the whole plot (with a word-count of the complete book) together in one WORD DOCUMENT.  Please do a title page and number the pages in case we decide to print it.

FURTHER SUBMISSIONS ADVICE

For manuscript assessment and editorial advice you could send your manuscript to a literary consultant. One consultancy we recommend is Cornerstones, another is The Literary Consultancy. Please mention that you were recommended by us.

It is helpful to join a writers' group in your area. Writers meet to read and discuss each other's work.

For advice about making a living from all areas of writing, you could visit the Start a Writing Business website .

For further advice see Advice for Authors or read our FAQs . Please do not phone us with a question without checking FAQs first. Thank you.