Rebecca Ritchie is an agent at AM Heath, looking for contemporary women’s fiction, reading group, historical fiction and saga, through to police procedural, crime, thriller and psychological suspense. She is also interested in non-fiction topics such as cookery, travel, health and wellbeing. How did you become an agent? I initially thought I wanted to be…
Before I became an agent, I started out in Fiction Marketing at HarperCollins – a fantastic starter job, gained from applying to an ad in the Guardian (neither interning, nor nepotism involved!) After three years, I wanted to get closer to books but wasn’t sure how. With the scarcity of editorial jobs, and some uncertainty…
We had a successful end to 2017 with two clients signing with agents in the same week. Congratulations to Jayne Swinton and Triona Campbell, both of whom are on the road to publishing success. Sara worked with Jayne on two of her novels and it was while chatting to Rachel Mills at Furniss Lawton that…