Submitting to Juliet

Juliet is looking for: crime, thriller, psychological novels, reading group fiction, gothic novels, historical fiction, and SFF. A snapshot of Juliet’s favourite novels includes: The Book of Night Women, Room, The Hate U Give, Uprooted, Americanah, Gone Girl, We Need to Talk about Kevin and The Vanishing Half. She likes high concept hooks, twists and turns (she’s a huge fan of Gillian Flynn!), books with an international appeal, thought-provoking novels with meaty issues to discuss, and books which make her cry. 

Juliet is not looking for: she’s not naturally drawn to novels based in the afterlife, anything involving demons or angels, bildungsroman novels, religious/conspiracy thrillers, or spy novels.

Recent novels she has sold include: Hattie Williams’ debut following a publicity assistant’s affair with a much older, very married novelist (UK: Orion; US: Ballantine), Saara El-Arifi’s Faebound, a fantasy novel set in a world of elves and fae (UK: HarperVoyager; US: Del Rey), Sarah Hornsley’s Bad Blood about a lawyer prosecuting a case who realises the accused is her first love, who disappeared years ago (UK: Hodder)

Please do not send her: picture-books, MG, non-fiction, novellas, short stories/short story collections, screenplays or poetry collections. Please do not send her unfinished books. Unless she has specifically asked to see it, do not send her revised versions of earlier manuscripts she has rejected. Do not send her novels which her colleagues have rejected.