That's a wrap folks! Thanks so much to everyone who sent their pitches to us for
#PitchToDA
! There's been some great plots tweeted our way and we can't wait to get reading! We aim to have responded to everyone by 12pm tomorrow!
🚨 News Klaxon 🚨
Calling all
#amquerying
authors.
We’re back again running another
#PitchToDA
event.
Wednesday 24th July we’re looking for your ☀️ Summer Sizzler ☀️ pitches.
Have you got a poolside read we need to hear about?! 🏖️ pitch to us!
Read more 👇 🧵 …
Calling all
#romancewriters
, this Valentine's Day the DA Agency are running an exclusive romance pitch event!😍Rom-coms, sweeping love stories, steamy affairs, you name it, we want to hear from you. Get working on your pitches, the countdown is on!
#PitchToDA
Internship alert! 🚨 Calling all publishing hopefuls, we’re hiring for an Agency Intern to start in October. Send your CV and answers to the below questions to tanera
@darleyanderson
.com. No publishing experience needed! We can’t wait to hear from you! 🤩
#publishinginternship
🚨WE’RE LIVE 🚨
#writingcommunity
were live today for
#PitchtoDA
! If you’re writing or
#amquerying
commercial fiction, we’d love to hear from you!
Full details can be found at the link below!
🚨 News Klaxon 🚨
Calling all
#amquerying
authors.
We’re back again running another
#PitchToDA
event.
Wednesday 24th July we’re looking for your ☀️ Summer Sizzler ☀️ pitches.
Have you got a poolside read we need to hear about?! 🏖️ pitch to us!
Read more 👇 🧵 …
We are pleased to announce the winner of Summer24
#PitchToDA
🎉
Congratulations
@ArmstrongLinz
. The pitch for SPOILED hooked us straight away and we couldn’t wait to read. 🥇
Thank you to everyone who joined in, we had so many incredible pitches ⭐️
Back soon...
#PitchToDA
SUCH A FUN AGE X British obsession with property and class.
Skint Geordie, Tina, wins a swanky house in a lottery, but her new snobby neighbours look down on her: she’s not one of them. When she brings a killer to live with her the neighbours reach breaking point.
#PitchtoDA
Calling all aspiring authors! We're excited to invite you all to the DA: Guide to Submissions Webinar, next Wednesday at 5:30pm GMT! Spaces are limited so be sure to grab yours now!
🚨JOB VACANCY - Assistant to super agent Camilla Bolton required. MUST be passionate about commercial fiction and have a can-do attitude - no publishing experience required. A rare chance to learn from one of THE best Crime & Thriller agents in the business - good luck! 😃
Do you LOVE reading commercial crime, thrillers & mysteries? Are you looking for a chance to work in a top London Literary Agency? I’m looking for a new assistant. Publishing experience isn’t essential. Let me know your favourite authors/books!
@DA_Agency
📚⭐️COMPETITION NEWS: Are you ready to submit your novel to win representation at the DA Agency and a publication deal with
@simonschusterUK
? Time to get re-drafting! Everyone is welcome to submit - details here, good luck! >>
We're thrilled to share the news that
@CamillaJBolton
is taking a step up to Managing Director at Darley Anderson and Associates Ltd. We're so excited to have her at helm!
Camilla Bolton has stepped up to the role of managing director of Darley Anderson & Associates 18 years after joining the agency though c.e.o. Darley Anderson is “emphatically not retiring” 👇
INTERNSHIP ALERT 🚨
Calling all publishing hopefuls! 👋
We’re looking for an intern to support the busy crime & thriller team:
@CamillaJBolton
and
@jadekav_
Check it out ⬇️
📢DA this thrilled to announce the promotions of
@Beka_finch
and
@jadekav_
to Literary Agent. Their passion and enthusiasm for their work and authors has been a huge asset to the agency and we can't wait to see them build their lists across
#romance
#fantasy
#crime
and
#horror
!
Jade Kavanagh and Rebeka Finch have been promoted at Darley Anderson Agency & Associates (
@DA_Agency
), expanding the agency’s space for romance, fantasy, crime and horror 👇
Don’t forget! ⏰
On Monday from 9-9
#PitchToDA
is back for
#DACHILLERS
Pitch us your crime, thriller, mystery and suspense novels.
Check out our pinned tweet for all you need to know 👻
Huge congratulations to
@missfelicityq
, this Halloween's Pitch Party winner! Thanks to everyone who entered, we had some amazing entries. If your pitch wasn't successful or your genre not represented, watch this space for more in the coming months! Winning pitch in thread below..
Happy Publication Day to
@jconnollybooks
and
#TheInstrumentsOfDarkness
!
"This one will leave readers breathless and shaken"
Get your copy of the brilliant new Charlie Parker novel today in the US and UK!
🇬🇧
🇺🇸
Charlie Parker will be back on bookshelves soon in the brilliant new title from
@jconnollybooks
,
#TheFuries
! Out in UK and Ireland on Thursday 4th August and Australia and New Zealand on August 9th! Set your alarms, it's not to be missed!
@HodderBooks
(1/6) 🧵Thank you everyone who participated, promoted and pitched in yesterday's
#PitchtoDA
event! We were bowled over by the quality of pitches we received and have had so much fun reading them all...
Thanks so much to everyone who entered our Valentine's
#PitchtoDA
event! We've loved reading your pitches and are looking forward to reading the submissions from the tweets that we've liked! It's also been wonderful to see the author support and engagement for each other! (1/3)
Calling all aspiring authors, publishers, and reading enthusiasts! 🚨 We're going live on instagram at 6pm to answer any questions you have for the Agency! Reply below with any questions you want answered, or tweet us using the hashtag
#AskDA
!
#amquerying
#DAOpenWeek
Calling all women's fiction authors! 🚨🚨 It's competition time! We are thrilled to be running the DA Summer Reads contest this July and August! Full details can be found at the link below! Good Luck!
#amquerying
#amwriting
#DAOpenWeek
🚨 The word's out! Say hello to the new and revamped Darley Anderson website! Head over to to check out. Designed by the incredible team at
@And_Agency
! We hope you love it as much as we do! Submitters, we're open!
#amquerying
#publishing
#amwriting
#wip
*New Blog Post Alert* The wonderful A. M. Howell gives an honest and open account of her journey to publication, as well as some invaluable advice for aspiring authors
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT 📢We are thrilled to announce that we are launching the new Darley Anderson Illustration Agency! Head over too to see for yourself!
@LitAgentClare
@LydiaRSilver
Darley Anderson (
@DA_Agency
) opens illustration arm - headed by Clare Wallace (
@LitAgentClare
), The Darley Anderson Illustration Agency will represent artists and illustrators from both the children’s and adults’ lists
(£)
It's almost time! 🚨 T-minus 2 days until Charlie Parker is back on bookshelves! Out in the UK and Ireland this Thursday and with this stunning hardback cover!
@jconnollybooks
Finished copies of THE FURIES by
@jconnollybooks
have arrived! Private Investigator Charlie Parker is back hunting evil in the twentieth book in the globally bestselling series. Pre-order a signed copy now ahead of publication day, 4th August.
It's here! 😍The Darley Anderson Blog has had a facelift and we can't wait for you to see it. The perfect place on the internet for any avid readers and aspiring authors! Go check it out
New content coming soon 👀
Kicking off this month is the start of our new blog series, The Darley Anderson Author's Book Club! Each month we'll be asking our authors to pass on their top recommendations and we can't wait to get started...watch this space! 👀😍
Happy Publication Day to
@propermiss
and I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay! Written in exquisitely inventive style, this dark short story collection exploring the trauma and power that reside in women's bodies is sure to have you captivated. Out now!
@bansheelit
I'm SO EXCITED to announce that I've been signed by the amazing
@Aria_Fiction
@HoZ_Books
for two contemporary romances!
Both will come out in ebook format, paperback and audio.
I can't wait to share the Christmas novel in October!
Do I need an Agent? It's a question we get asked a lot, so we asked bestselling author
@OLearyBeth
to see what she had to say about her journey to publication with DA Agent
@tanera_simons
! Give a read at the link below... via
@DA_Agency
Ready to hit the ground running with your submission this year?📚Each Friday we're running
#AskDA
on our insta @:darleyanderson_agency. This is your chance to send us all your burning book questions! Tap the link below for more
#books
#amwriting
#onwriting
Happiest of publication days to
@jconnollybooks
and
#TheFuries
! Charlie Parker’s investigations draw him into a world of modern furies; goddesses of vengeance..."menace has never been so seductive!" Get your copy in the UK and Ireland now!
@HodderBooks
So join us from 9am to 9pm BST ⏰
on 24.07.24 🗓️
Get working on your pitches! We can’t wait to hear from you and get our holiday reads sorted 😎
#PitchToDA
Thanks to everyone who entered the
#PitchToDA
contest yesterday!🎃We've been so impressed with the quality of pitches sent our way. We've now gone through them all and congratulations to those who have received a like! 👏
If we like ❤️ your pitch send us your covering letter, first three chapters and your synopsis to hello
@darleyanderson
.com 📧
Don’t forget to include your
#Pitch
in the subject line! ✍️
Check out the website for further details.
Calling all women's fiction authors!🚨The DA Summer Reads competition is now open! We're looking for the next bestseller in women's fiction, if you think that's you, we want to hear from you! 🥳Full T&Cs can be found at the link below! Good luck to all!
Congratulations to Chloe Ford on her fantastic and page turning submission, The Things Who Love Me! A beautiful contemporary rom-com that centres around Hattie, and her childhood neighbours and twins, Freddie and Sam. Or rather Thing One and Thing Two!
With
#DAOpenWeek
just around the corner, we thought it might be good to get to know the team at Darley Anderson, starting with one of our newest recruits Laura Heathfield!
Happy publication day to
@jconnollybooks
and
#TheNamelessOnes
! "Five murderers must be found before they vanish into thin air....the only problem is....there's a sixth!" Check out the brilliant new
#CharlieParker
thriller now in hardback, eBook and audio!
@HodderBooks
On 28th October
@jconnollybooks
will take readers on a journey through 300 years of Irish genre fiction in
#ShadowVoices
. Here are monsters, murderers and cannibals. Here are female criminal masterminds, star-crossed lovers and vengeful spouses. Here are the SHADOW VOICES.
And that’s a wrap 2019! 🎬
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‘Our writers mean business’ and that’s something that drives our Agency to be the best that it can be. So thank you to all our fabulous authors and all the amazing illustrators and…
💜📚A HUGE and happy publication day to the wonderful
@phaedrapatrick
! Her new novel
#TheLibraryOfLostAndFound
is out today, her 'characters are vibrant, quirky, and real', you're going to love it 😍
🚨Job alert!
We're hiring for a part-time remote Dramatic Rights Assistant
Full job description here
Apply by 4th November with a CV and covering letter to jade
@darleyanderson
.com
We can't wait to hear from you! 👏
#publishingjobs
#jobsinbooks
Happy Publication Day to
@jconnollybooks
- his literary masterpiece
#he
is out in the US & Canada today! 🎉'It's the best tribute to this novel that by the end of it you feel you have been given the full texture of a life.' -
@KirkusReviews
- Catch him on tour this week >>>
(6/6) Lastly, congratulations to everyone that got a like, and thank you again to everyone that participated. Your tweets made it to
#9
trending across twitter/X in the UK yesterday! So hopefully even if your pitch wasn't right for us, it got some good exposure elsewhere!
It could be…
An addictive book club story we can’t stop talking about 🗣️
A compelling crime you crack open and can’t stop🕵️♂️
A holiday romance to make our hearts soar 💕
A thriller you read in one sunbathing sesh 🤯
Orrrr something that’s a little summer spicy! 🌶️
We are all so delighted that
@GillianMAuthor
is headed stateside with her powerful novel, NO FURTHER QUESTIONS! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Published in e-book by
@MichaelJBooks
on 2nd July and pb on 4th Oct.
I am so pleased to say that I have signed my first ever American book deal with
@PutnamBooks
with my brilliant editor
@sallynyc
.
My third novel, No Further Questions, will be my US debut, published as The Good Sister, by Putnam Books, an imprint of Penguin. And I am thrilled.
For this week's blog post, we speak to some of our authors to get their perspective on rejection and how they encountered it on their journey to publication. We hope this provides you with a little encouragement and inspiration in these strange times!
It's Question Time!⁉️This is your chance to ask us your burning question about Agency life, Publishing, Authorship, you name it, we want to know. Comment below and we'll try and answer as many as possible in our new Blog Series!