Juliet Mushens is an Agent in the UK Literary Division of The Agency Group. Juliet began her publishing career in 2008 at HarperCollins, after reading history at Cambridge, and became an agent in 2011. Juliet represents a bestselling list of fiction and non-fiction writers, in every area except picture books, writing for under-10s, sport and diet books. She particularly enjoys historical fiction, fantasy, contemporary YA, reading group fiction and crime novels. On the non-fiction side she likes memoirs, popular economics, gender and history. She was shortlisted for the Literary Agent of the Year award in 2014, picked as a Bookseller Rising Star in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for excellence in women in publishing in 2013. Alongside her role as an agent, she supervises Creative Writing dissertations for Kingston University and is currently working on ‘Get Started in Creative Writing for Young Adults’, a creative writing guide which Hodder will publish in 2015. Juliet welcomes unsolicited submissions so please send your cover letter, first 3 chapters and synopsis to JulietMushens@theagencygroup.com. Juliet replies to all submissions, and aims to respond within 8-12 weeks of receipt of email. You can find her on twitter as @mushenska .
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