Juliet Mushens

“High concept hooks, beautiful writing and page turning plots are what I’m looking for”

Juliet Mushens became an agent in 2011 after beginning her career at HarperCollins Publishers in 2008. More than a dozen of her clients are Sunday Times bestsellers with more than half a dozen claiming the number one slot, including Jessie Burton (The Miniaturist), Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club), Saara El-Arifi (Faebound) and Claire Douglas (The Wrong Sister). The Times ran a piece recognising her as the first agent to represent the number 1, 2 and 3 UK bestsellers in the same week, a feat she has since repeated. Juliet sits on the advisory board of Book Brunch, is currently President of the British Fantasy Society and sits on the board of the Women’s Prize Trust.

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Submitting to Juliet

Juliet is open to submissions.

Juliet is looking for: adult fiction across the genres – from reading group, to love story, to SFF, and most things in between. I am naturally drawn to books with high concept hooks, and page-turning plots. I grew up reading a blend of literary classics, love stories purloined from my grandma’s bookshelves, doorstopper fantasy and fanfiction – so my taste is broad! I have a perennial interest in novels about cults, stylish crime fiction where the setting is also a character, love stories where you cry at the end, books about rich people being awful, subversive fantasy, funny and voice-y novels.

Juliet’s taste in books: I am looking for novels which make for good book-club reads; historical fiction which centres characters often sidelined by history; twisty and thrilling novels with heaps of suspense; fantasy with immersive worldbuilding and a great sense of pace to the story be it romantasy or epic; upmarket fiction with page-turning plots; commercial women’s fiction and love stories.

Please do not send her: picture-books, MG, non-fiction, novellas, short stories/short story collections, screenplays or poetry collections. Please do not send me unfinished books. Unless I have specifically asked to see it, do not send me revised versions of earlier manuscripts I have rejected, or novels which my colleagues have rejected. Currently, I am less focused on: YA, dystopian novels and science-fiction.

Why send to Juliet?: I see myself as a career agent. I love a robust negotiation and an exciting deal but I see my agenting style as very much focused on the long term. Many of my authors have been with me for 10+ books, and I’ve taken a good number of them from slush-pile to bestselling brands. I’m business savvy and commercial – but in it for the long haul.

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