Lizzy Kremer

Lizzy Kremer represents commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction. She was President of the Association of Authors’ Agents from January 2018-2020 and was named the British Book Industry Awards 2016 Agent of the Year in May 2016.

Lizzy is Managing Director of David Higham Associates. Her career in publishing began as a book publicist, after which she worked with agent Ed Victor for seven years before joining DHA in 2004.

Lizzy writes a blog at https://publishingforhumans.com/. She is always keen to discover compelling new voices in commercial and literary fiction and has posted on the subject of what she looks for in fiction submissions here; on the subject of fiction for women here; on crime writing here; and on genre fiction here.

Lizzy is co-author with George Green of A Dummies Guide to Writing a Novel and Getting Published (2007, updated edition 2014).

If you would like to submit your work to Lizzy, please email lizzymanuscripts@davidhigham.co.uk. You should include a covering letter in the body of your email and attach a synopsis and the first three chapters of your book. Please put your name and the title of your manuscript in the subject line of your email. Please note that only submissions sent to this dedicated email address will be reviewed.

Lizzy is assisted by Maddalena Cavaciuti and Orli Vogt-Vincent.

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