Writing workshops

Transform your novel with powerful storytelling techniques from beyond the page. In this exclusive session with bestselling author M.L. Rio, you’ll discover:

• Practical techniques to apply theatrical and musical storytelling principles directly to your writing
• How to incorporate existing creative works into your story, as M.L. Rio did with Shakespeare’s plays in If We Were Villains
• Cross-medium insights from M.L. Rio’s experience as both a performer and novelist

Join us on December 1 to learn how to harness these unique perspectives in your own writing. M.L. Rio, author of the internationally bestselling If We Were Villains and Hot Wax, will share the secrets that have made her fiction resonate with readers worldwide.

How do we write about our characters’ experiences with authenticity?

An authenticity editor, also known as a sensitivity reader, can support writers in their journey to present their characters’ experiences, whether it’s something from our own lives or representing another community.

In this session, we welcome Jasmine Richards, Chief Storyteller and Founder of Storymix, an award-winning fiction studio dedicated to inclusive storytelling for children and teens. Jasmine is also the author of more than 15 books, including the acclaimed The Unmorrow Curse.

Through Storymix and her own writing, Jasmine is keen to ensure every child can see themselves in the stories they love.

Join us for an open-hearted discussion and an opportunity to ask questions from an expert editor on supporting writers.

How do we write sensory description effectively and paint a picture so our reader feels as though they’ve stepped into the pages of our novel?

Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) is a master of sensory storytelling across contemporary women’s fiction, romance, fantasy, and more. She is best known for Chocolat (1999), which was named by the Guardian as one of the ‘100 bestselling books of all time’ and adapted for the screen in a BAFTA- and Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Juliette Binoche. Joanne has written more than 20 novels, plus novellas, short stories, game scripts, the libretti for two short operas, several screenplays, a stage musical (with Howard Goodall), and three cookbooks. Her books have won multiple accolades and are published in over 50 different countries.

Joanne joins us for a live Q&A to discuss her vivacious and varied writing journey and how to tease out those sensory details to really make our writing sing.

What’s on an agent’s wishlist right now and what might surprise them—the manuscript they didn’t know they needed? Join us for a live Q&A session with Caitlin Blasdell, Literary Agent at Liza Dawson Associates. Caitlin has been agenting since 2002, and before that was a senior editor at HarperCollins. Caitlin represents a wide range of commercial fiction including SFF, thrillers, romance, and historical fiction.

Bring your characters to a live workshop with Dr. Stephanie Carty, clinical psychologist and writer of fiction and non-fiction, who will help you build the psychology of your characters and build a backstory and behavior pattern that feels real and authentic.

RSVP now for a fascinating live workshop.

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Maureen Johnson on writing across a variety of genres, co-writing with other authors, and what she’s learned about her process during her prolific writing journey.

Maureen is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen Young Adult novels which have sold more than three million copies worldwide, including Nine Liars, the Truly Devious series, the Shades of London series, Suite Scarlett, and 13 Little Blue Envelopes, as well as Let It Snow (with John Green and Lauren Myracle), which was also a hit feature film on Netflix.

What’s on an agent’s wishlist right now? When should I submit, and to whom?

Join us for a live Q&A session with Erin Harris, Senior Vice President and literary agent at Folio Literary Management, who represents books for both adults and teens. A graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the New School. Erin is passionate about working with underrepresented and marginalized writers and has the honor (and joy) of working with New York Times bestselling authors, award-winning authors, and debut authors seeking to build long-term careers.

How can we write historical fiction while balancing research and authenticity alongside bringing vivid characters and stories to life?

In this live writing class with Kate Quinn, discover the processes and techniques Kate developed while writing bestselling historical fiction. Kate will be hosted by The Novelry writing coach and her Ribbons of Scarlet collaborator Heather Webb to discuss her prolific career and, in her own wonderful words, ‘the life, the laughter, and the humanity that runs through our common past.’

Kate is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of four novels in the Empress of Rome saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance. She turned to writing about the twentieth century with The Alice Network (2017), The Huntress (2019), The Rose Code (2021), The Diamond Eye (2022), and The Briar Club (2024). She is also the co-author of several collaborative novels, including The Phoenix Crown (2024) with Janie Chang and Ribbons of Scarlet (2019) with Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, Eliza Knight, Sophie Perinot, and Heather Webb. All have been translated into multiple languages.

Join Carson Long, Video Content Creator from ProWritingAid, on a walkthrough of the software’s latest features and Q&A on how this powerful tool can work in harmony with your writing.

Carson Long is a writer, educator, and video host for ProWritingAid’s Story Lab, where he helps new writers build confidence and master storytelling fundamentals. He is the creator of the YouTube channel Writing Theory, known for its engaging, in-depth videos on narrative craft. Carson is the author of Starlight Farm’s Kennel for Talking Dogs, a cozy fantasy novella. With a background in fiction, filmmaking, and digital content, he focuses on making writing approachable and actionable.

Can one person affect the course of history? Our science fiction and fantasy protagonists often, quite literally, have the fate of the world in their hands. But how can this feel authentic and real to readers who are very much based in our world?

In this live writing class with Eliza Chan and Catriona Silvey, we discuss how speculative heroes both shape and are shaped by their worlds. Eliza is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Drowned World duology—Fathomfolk (2024) and Tideborn (2025). Catriona is the author of Meet Me in Another Life (2021), which will be adapted into a feature film produced by and starring Gal Gadot, and Love and Other Paradoxes (2025).

How do we write about our characters’ experiences with authenticity? An authenticity editor, also known as a sensitivity reader, can support writers in their journey to present their characters’ experiences, whether it’s something from our own lives or representing another community.

In this session, we welcome Mireille Harper, Editorial Director at Bloomsbury Tonic, where she publishes books that help readers to think, feel, and live better. Mireille is also the author of the children’s book Timelines from Black History. Join us for an open-hearted discussion and an opportunity to ask questions from an expert editor on supporting writers.

Maria Semple is the bestselling author of Today Will Be Different (2016), Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2012), and This One is Mine (2008). Her novels have been translated into over 30 languages. Before writing fiction, Maria wrote for the TV shows Arrested Development, Mad About You, Ellen, and 90210.

Where’d You Go, Bernadette was adapted for the screen in 2019 in a feature film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett.

Maria is joined by The Novelry writing coach Gina Sorell to discuss the differences and similarities between writing for page and screen, what it’s like to have your books adapted, and an insight into her writing process.

Join S.J. Bennett and Aditi Surana, two AI experts, for a chance to gain insight into current AI research, where it might go in the future, and how to consider weaving AI into your stories in terms of character or plot elements—if your story is near-future speculative, it may require a different approach than something that is far future and more science fantasy. Contemporary stories that aren’t in the science fiction genre may also increasingly need to consider how AI might be referenced.

S.J. Bennett is a research associate in data justice and global ethical futures in public policy at The Alan Turing Institute, and co-organizes the AI Ethics and Society group in Edinburgh. Aditi Surana is an early-stage researcher and PhD candidate at Design Informatics and the School of Design at the Edinburgh College of Arts. She is also a Marie Curie Fellow within the EU’s Innovative Training ‘DCODE’ Network. Her PhD focuses on examining human-centered and design-led approaches to AI governance and policy frameworks.

In this session, we’ll get into some of the opportunities and thorny ethics issues. Join us for an interesting discussion and a chance to ask your own questions about using AI in fiction!

Note: while we will probably touch on some of the anxieties around AI in publishing and some of the current discussions around copyright, the main focus will be on interweaving AI/AGI into the stories themselves as a character or plot element.

Often considered ‘the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong,’ Colonel Chris Hadfield became a household name as the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station. A heavily decorated astronaut, engineer, and pilot, he is also an acclaimed musician, the host of two internationally acclaimed television series, including National Geographic’s One Strange Rock, and the bestselling author of five books.

How does he navigate and sustain his successful writing life? In this expansive conversation, Chris Hadfield will discuss his writing process across picture book, memoir, and mystery, all rooted in his inspiring message that all of us can reach for the stars and make the impossible a reality.

Eve White started her own literary agency in 2003. Since then, the Eve White Literary Agency has grown to represent everything from prize-winning literary fiction to bestselling picture books worldwide whilst maintaining the caring, family feel of a boutique agency. Eve represents New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware and was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year in 2015 and 2017 at The British Book Awards.

Family, friends, and feeling ‘different’: the challenges of growing up are universal, but they are experienced uniquely by each and every child. Writing characters who feel authentic in their process of identity formation is essential to connecting with young readers.

Newbery Award-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly writes about children who feel like misfits and outsiders and whose lived experiences feel authentic to their distinct identities. Matched with pitch-perfect plots, Erin Entrada Kelly’s books for young readers are multi-award-winning, bestselling, and have been translated into multiple languages.

Hello, Universe was awarded the 2018 John Newbery Medal by the Association for Library Service to Children, We Dream of Space received a 2021 Newbery Honor, and her second novel, The Land of Forgotten Girls, won the Award for Children’s Literature from the Asian Pacific Librarians Association.

During Winter, we descend. The darkness brings nourishment. It brings searching, processing and an eventual yearning for germination.

In this special session for writers, certified yoga and meditation teacher Ria Peake leads us through a practice of ‘emerging’ to renew and inspire creativity as we enter another season of our writing lives. Open to all writers, this wellbeing session incorporates both hatha yoga practices and guided meditations, delivered virtually for you to join from the comfort of your home.

Ria E. Peake is an experienced hatha yoga and meditation teacher. The practices found her during her work in an inpatient psychiatric facility, and since then she has taught people from all walks of life. She has specialist training in yoga for mental health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on cognition and creativity. Ria is currently a PhD researcher at the University of Reading, where she is researching the impact of hatha yoga on mood disorders.

What’s better than one seductive, enchanting and transporting fantasy? A trilogy of them. Saara El-Arifi is delivering trilogies of epic proportions, described by our writing coach Tasha Suri as “devastatingly romantic and breathtaking” and “unforgettable”.

Saara’s debut novel, The Final Strife, was inspired from her Ghanian and Sudanese heritage, and marked the beginning of The Ending Fire Trilogy. Close to follow was the Faebound Trilogy, an instant USA Today bestseller. In this live writing class on March 3, Saara El-Arifi is joined by The Novelry writing coach and bestselling SFF author Kate Dylan as they discuss how Saara crafts her epic and sweeping trilogies in the booming  genre of romantasy.

Did you ever think your novel idea was too ambitious? Tried to combine crime and suspense with historical fiction and romance, and maybe even a saga of multiple generations? Enter Chris Whitaker, the author of thrillers spanning timelines with epic love stories, unique twists on classic crime scenarios, and captivating historical settings, demonstrating the success of carefully combining genres.

Chris Whitaker is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the 'impeccably crafted, deeply emotional, entirely shattering' (Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry) novel, All The Colors Of The Dark. He is also the author of acclaimed and bestselling novels We Begin At The End, Tall Oaks, and All The Wicked Girls. Chris joins us at The Novelry for a live writing class with tips and tricks for crafting compelling, twisty and bold thrillers.

You’ve heard the tropes: enemies-to-lovers, grumpy x sunshine, forced proximity. But how can you apply them with renewed life? The mastermind behind romance tropes (and the pioneer of the hot ghost boyfriend), Ashley Poston, joins us to discuss speculative romance and rom-com tropes on February 7!

Taking ghost-writing to a whole new level, Ashley Poston’s New York Times bestselling novel The Dead Romantics tells the story of a writer who falls for her editor who, frustratingly, happens to be a ghost. Ashley is also the author of The Seven Year Slip and 2024’s A Novel Love Story. A TikTok sensation and leading voice of the rom-com genre, she shares her writing journey and craft tips with our writers in this special live Q&A!

In today’s saturated market, many publishers require authors to have a platform before acquiring their work. So where do you start?

In this live session, Eleanor will cover the basics of brand-building: from having a website as a landing page or a newsletter to getting to know your audience, to which social media platforms—if any—you should use to promote your work and/or brand.

Eleanor Pilcher is the former Head of Fiction Marketing at Bonnier Books UK, working in fiction marketing for ten years. She is also a traditionally published author with Hodder and HarperCollins in the US, a content creator on TikTok with nearly 12,000 followers, and has a highly-subscribed to Substack newsletter, offering advice to publishers, writers, and readers. She joins us for an informative Q&A for the authors of The Novelry—not to be missed!

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How do you make your reader feel the danger ahead without simply telling them? What defines gothic horror today? Bestselling author Katharine Beutner joins us at The Novelry to share her experience crafting a nail-biting story in this genre. Katharine’s second novel Killingly (2024) is a haunting novel of intrigue, longing, and terror, based on the real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897 and perfect for fans of Donna Tartt and Sarah Waters. Her debut Alcestis (2010) is a retelling of the Greek myth and won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award from the Publishing Triangle in 2011. Now, Katharine teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She joins The Novelry writing coach Alexis Henderson for a live Q&A on January 6.

What’s on an agent’s list right now? When should I submit, and to whom? To answer these questions and any more you might have, Nicole Cunningham from The Book Group joins us on December 16 for a live session with our writers. Nicole represents a range of fiction, nonfiction, and illustrators, and works with writers and artists who share a sense of wonder, curiosity, and tenderness about the world. Founded in 2015, The Book Group is a New York-based full-service literary agency representing authors like Ann Napolitano and Liane Moriarty as well as The Novelry graduate Daisy Carrington.

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Developing your writing entails understanding interpersonal relationships and all their little intricacies—and Kate Sawyer has a knack for it. Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month This Family was praised for its gripping, intriguing depiction of character dynamics, and Kate’s debut novel The Stranding demonstrated ‘perceptive and unflinching’ human relationships in an apocalyptic setting (Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist). Kate joins us at The Novelry for a live writing class on crafting real, complex human relationships across genres. For a session not to be missed, join us as a member.

Finding humour in the darkness is a writer’s greatest tool. But how do you find the light when writing from your own painful experiences? In this session, bestselling memoirist Alice Carrière discusses her journey writing Everything/Nothing/Someone and her emergence from an unconventional, emotionally fraught childhood. Alice’s memoir was described by New York Times as ‘not self-pitying but raw, filled with sorrow, dark humor and sharp observation’, and writers of all genres will appreciate her insights into writing challenging themes and finding your own, honest voice.

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The author of global sensation and record-smashing Netflix adaptation Bridgerton joins us for this exclusive live writing class with writers of The Novelry! Julia Quinn introduced us all to the power of Regency-era romance, with its potential for scandal and sensation heightened by an anonymous narrator (Lady Whistledown, dear gentlereaders!). In this session, Julia will discuss her writing journey, her experience in the historical romance genre, and how she crafts stories dripping with intrigue and sensuality. Join us as a member so you don't miss out!

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What are the biggest publishers selling right now? In this live session, Penguin Random House Director Patrick Guaschino joins The Novelry to talk about the trends he’s seeing in science fiction and fantasy (SFF) and genre fiction. As Associate Director of Retail Sales at Penguin Random House, Patrick oversees and manages the adult PRH client titles lists at Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million. Over 13 years of experience in the publishing industry has granted Patrick insights into the latest sales trends that writers from all genres, and particularly SFF, will find invaluable. He joins our writers for a Q&A on October 21.

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What defines the Gen Z rom-com? How do you create compelling, complex love interests? And how spicy is too spicy? To tackle these questions, the leading voice of diverse, complex and sexy romances Talia Hibbert joins us for a live session on October 7. Talia’s debut, Get A Life, Chloe Brown, was a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller, winning 2019’s Ripped Bodice Award for Excellence in Romantic Fiction. Sixteen published books later, Talia continues to write with warmth and empathy for her characters, ensuring readers from all walks of life find themselves seen and understood. Join us as a member to hear more about Talia’s craft and writing process, and to ask her any questions on contemporary romance!

The Novelry’s Krystle Appiah is joined by Bria Ragin (Penguin Random House) and Foyinsi Adegbonmire (Macmillan) for an exciting panel on the YA market, discussing what makes a book stand out in this booming genre, what trends we’re seeing, and what makes for a bestseller.

Bria Ragin is currently an editor at Delacorte Press and Joy Revolution, an imprint of Penguin Random House Children’s Books. Bria has worked with bestsellers Talia Hibbert, Amalie Howard and Angela Montoya, and has over a decade of experience in the industry.

Foyinsi Adegbonmire is an editor at Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan’s Children’s Publishing Group, and has acquired YA favorites like Tomi Oyemakinde and New York Times bestselling author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Ace of Spades) among many others. Come along for a friendly and informative session with the opportunity to ask any questions you might have about the YA industry.

Sunday Times bestseller Lucy Clarke is the author of eight destination thrillers. They include Waterstones Thriller of the Month The Castaways, Richard and Judy Book Club pick One of the Girls, and most recently, The Hike. Lucy’s novels have sold over a million copies and are published in more than 25 territories worldwide.

Lucy’s thriller No Escape (also published as The Blue) has been released as a major international show for Paramount+. Set in the Philippines, the seven-part series is directed by Hans Herbot (The Serpent) and stars Abigail Lawrie and Rhianne Barreto as best friends Lana and Kitty.

‍The Castaways has also been adapted for screen and was the Guardian Pick of the Week. BAFTA award-winner Sheridan Smith stars as Lori, and Celine Buckens plays her sister, Erin. The five-part thriller is available to stream on Paramount+.

Join us for a Live Q&A with Rebecca Ritchie, literary agent at A.M. Heath. From George Orwell to Hilary Mantel, A.M. Heath have represented authors for over 100 years.

Bonnie Garmus is the New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry, which has been translated into 42 languages. A television adaptation starring Brie Larson aired on Apple TV last year.

Among the prizes Bonnie has won are the British Book Awards Author of the Year 2023, the Waterstones Author of the Year 2022, the Paul Torday Memorial Prize for a first novel by an author over 60, and the Forbes Magazine EMEA 50 over 50 2024. Lessons in Chemistry was shortlisted for the 2023 RSL Christopher Bland Prize.

A copywriter and creative director who has worked widely in the fields of technology, medicine and education, Bonnie is an open-water swimmer, a rower, and mother to two pretty amazing daughters. Born in California and most recently from Seattle, she currently lives in London with her husband and her dog, 99.

Penguin Random House and Bloomsbury have signed Kate Weinberg’s ‘crackling, comical, tender, and mysterious’ novel, There’s Nothing Wrong With Her. U.S. rights were sold to Putnam (Penguin Random House) by Janklow & Nesbit, and Bloomsbury acquired U.K. and Commonwealth rights.

‍There’s Nothing Wrong With Her is about a woman suffering an unnamed condition that confines her to a physical and mental state she calls ‘The Pit.’ This is a book ‘about mental health, the certainties of medicine, buried trauma, love, death and time lost in the crushing—and comical—hopes of modern life.’

Kate says: ‘I’ve used the inspiring resources of The Novelry for help in developing both of my novels, The Truants and There’s Nothing Wrong With Her. I can say, hand-on-heart, that it has given me more tools and confidence—in both the art and craft of novel-writing—than my year-long prestigious Masters degree in Creative Writing ever did.’

Trellis Literary Management is a full service agency formed in 2021 whose clients include New York Times and international bestsellers; winners of the National Book Award, the Whiting Award, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award; finalists for the National Book Critics Circle, PEN Award, National Magazine Award, and more. Trellis clients have been selected as fellows and scholars by MacDowell, Tin House, the National Endowment for the Arts, Steinbeck, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Kundiman, among other lauded institutions. Trellis clients’ books have been chosen for national book clubs including the Good Morning America Book Club, Reese’s Book Club, Read With Jenna, Belletrist, and more; and have been adapted for film and television, including Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering (now a series on Hulu) and The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris (now a series on Hulu), with many others in development. Trellis agents’ interests range from literary to commercial to genre-bending fiction, from narrative to memoir to pop culture nonfiction and everything in between.

Hannah is the internationally bestselling and Sunday Times number 1 bestselling author of Godkiller, the first book in a trilogy which will be translated into Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish. She has her heart in Scotland and her roots in the north of England.

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Carla Jenkins debut novel will be published this May by Trapeze, an imprint of Hachette, who scooped the rights for a ‘powerful and engrossing’ debut novel by The Novelry graduate Carla Jenkins in a two-book deal from Madeleine Milburn at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency, who saw off competition from nine other agents to represent Carla after submission by The Novelry.

‍Fifty Minutes will publish in hardback in May 2024, with her follow-up novel due to publish in 2025.

Carla says: ‘From the initial idea for my novel to the point of getting agent representation, The Novelry were on hand with support and advice. The dream was always to get an agent and so to receive interest from several was mind-blowing—to have Madeleine Milburn within that list was more than I could have hoped for. I’m thrilled!’

Abigail Dean’s first novel, Girl A, was published in January 2021 and became an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Translated into 36 languages, the book was optioned for film by the producers of the HBO series Chernobyl. Abigail’s second novel, Day One, is out in March 2024.

Ella McLeod is a writer, poet and podcaster, who lives in South London with her fiancé and cat. She also co-hosts Comfort Creatures on the Maximum Fun Network. Ella loves Shakespeare, the Harlem Renaissance, mythology, ramen, and firmly believes in the radical power of dreaming. She is the author of two novels: Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair, and The Map that Led to You, both published by Scholastic.

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Bea Fitzgerald is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Hades and Persephone YA fantasy reimagining, Girl, Goddess, Queen. Under her username @chaosonolympus, Bea has more than 116k followers on TikTok. In this practical session, Bea will teach writers how to use TikTok from scratch and explain the importance of BookTok for authors (and readers).

C.L. Taylor is the eight times Sunday Times bestselling author of ten gripping stand-alone psychological thrillers: The Accident, The Lie, The Missing, The Escape, The Fear, Sleep, Strangers, Her Last Holiday, The Guilty Couple and her newest book, Every Move You Make, published on 28th March 2024.

Her books have sold over two million copies in the UK alone, and hit the number one spots on Amazon Kindle, Audible, Kobo, iBooks and Google Play. They have been translated into over 30 languages, been selected twice for the Richard and Judy Book Club (Sleep and The Guilty Couple) and optioned for television.

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A live Q&A with Jeramie Orton from Pamela Dorman Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House in New York, the home of multimillion-copy, #1 New York Times bestsellers by Kim Edwards, Helen Fielding, Gail Honeyman, Sue Monk Kidd, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and Jojo Moyes. Other New York Times bestselling authors include Ashley Audrain, Paolo Giordano, Shari Lapena, Richard Osman, J. Ryan Stradal, and Rosie Walsh.

Jeramie joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2015, after working at Oxford University Press. She is interested in atmospheric domestic thrillers, dark psychological suspense, mystery and some crime fiction, as well as fresh dystopian narratives and general upmarket commercial fiction. Recent and forthcoming authors she edits include Sarah Pearse, Bea Setton, Shari Lapena, Martha Beck, Richard Osman, J. Ryan Stradal, Claire Daverley, and June Gervais, among many others.

Tami Hoag is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books. There are more than forty million copies of her books in print in more than thirty languages. Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character-driven suspense, Tami Hoag first hit the New York Times bestseller list with Night Sins, and each of her books since has been a bestseller.

Chris Bucci represents bestselling and award-winning fiction and non-fiction authors including, Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid; Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? by Timothy Caulfield; and The War Widow by Tara Moss.

Chris began his career at the University of Toronto Press as an acquisitions editor in the social sciences. He joined HarperCollins Canada in 2003 as a non-fiction editor and then moved to McClelland & Stewart. In 2008 he joined The McDermid Agency as a literary agent and later bought the agency, along with Martha Webb. In 2017 they merged with the Cooke Agency to form CookeMcDermid where Chris was Proprietor and Literary Agent before coming to Aevitas in 2020.

Chris represents a broad range of both fiction and non-fiction as an Aevitas agent based in the NY Metropolitan area. He aims to work with some of the culture’s best writers, thinkers and experts—authors whose work helps us to interpret and understand our times as well as our future.

New York Times bestselling author Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage. Published in 2018, An American Marriage is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his year-end roundup. The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Sally’s debut novel, The Keeper of Stories, published by Harper Collins in 2022, was a Sunday Times Bestseller. It was shortlisted for British Book of the Year and has sold over half a million copies. Sally has also founded her own pen company, Plooms. Her passion for stationery partly inspired her second novel, The Book of Beginnings, which is set in small stationery shop in London.

Rosie Walsh is the internationally bestselling author of two novels, the global smash hit The Man Who Didn’t Call published in the US as Ghosted and The Love Of My Life, a heart-wrenching, keep-you-up-all-night emotional thriller, which was an instant New York Times bestseller.

Katherine’s most recent book, Enchantment became an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Her internationally bestselling hybrid memoir Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times was adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and was shortlisted for the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year. Other titles include novels such as The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club.