Commercial and upmarket fiction with strong pitches, believable characters, engaging voices, zeitgeisty novels, contemporary family dramas, high concept love stories, conversation-starting topics, historical fiction with unusual or overlooked settings, ambitious detective fiction, tense psychological thrillers, humorous cozy crime, regional crime stories, and books exploring social issues.
Children’s fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, action thrillers, sport books, poetry, short stories, books with talking animals.
Hattie Grunewald is a literary agent at The Blair Partnership representing commercial and upmarket fiction, including book club fiction, crime and thriller, historical and contemporary fiction, and select non-fiction in lifestyle and personal development. She is particularly interested in zeitgeisty contemporary novels, unusual historical settings, ambitious crime and thriller fiction, and works by marginalized authors.
Submissions should be emailed to [email protected] If you are emailing us a fiction submission, please include the working title of your story in the subject line of your email. In the email, please include a one-line elevator pitch, a short blurb, the target market and genre of your writing and any competitions or prizes you've won for writing. Then, please attach the first thirty pages of your manuscript and a one-page synopsis in one Word document or PDF. Please lay out your manuscript and synopsis so they are easy to read. If you don't follow these instructions, or you send your manuscript as a Pages document, Google document, WeTransfer or DropBox download, regrettably we will not read your submission. Equally, if you post your submission, we will not read it and we will recycle it.
Last verified: March 16, 2026
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