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Molly Ker Hawn
David Higham Associates
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About
Molly Ker Hawn is a literary agent at David Higham Associates, a leading UK literary agency. She is an American agent based in the UK and focuses primarily on young adult and middle grade fiction. She is known for championing transatlantic submissions and authors on both sides of the Atlantic.
Currently Looking For
I represent authors whose books have been New York Times, Sunday Times (UK), and international bestsellers and that have won and been shortlisted for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Yoto Carnegie Medal, the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year, the Children’s Books Ireland Award, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, and many other awards. My clients include Angie Thomas, Hilary McKay, Frances Hardinge, Heidi Heilig, Maryrose Wood, Louie Stowell, and more. My clients are based all over the world, and I sell directly to publishers in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. I also pay particular attention to translation rights sales, and so I’m looking for projects with global commercial appeal. Specifically, I’m looking for: Some specific likes and dislikes: Please do not send me picture books. I only represent picture books for my established clients. Please do not send me illustration samples. I don’t represent illustrators who don’t write their own texts. Please do not send me books for adults. Fun facts about me: I love road trips, libraries large and small, miniature villages, old stuff, New York City, folklore, ridiculous coincidences and unexpected connections, ghost signs, lost rivers, modernism, hotels, typographical design, choral music, revolving restaurants, and those last fifteen minutes in the departure lounge before I get on the plane.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to childrenssubmissions@davidhigham.co.uk All children’s writing and artwork submissions should be sent to ch******************@************co.uk. Please address your email to me, Molly Ker Hawn. Please include your name and the book title in the subject line, with your cover letter in the body of the email. In this, we would like to hear you introduce/pitch your story, see a brief summary (ideally one or two paragraphs), and hear a little bit about you (particularly about any relevant writing/illustrating history and your inspiration behind writing the story). For young fiction and novels, please attach the first three chapters of your book, along with a synopsis, as a Word doc or pdf. Send us your cover letter in the body of the email. Please include the pitch for your book and tell us any relevant information about yourself. Please do keep us updated if you receive an offer of representation and are still interested in working with one of our agents. Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to respond individually to writers. Please note: if you don’t hear back within twelve weeks, then this unfortunately means we won’t be taking your submission any further. We hope this isn’t too discouraging for emerging writers, and will always welcome new submissions from previously unsuccessful authors. Guidelines & Details Vital Info Website
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