Rights and representation
Everything you need, on one page, in the fewest words we can manage.
You are busy, and you are almost certainly reading this on a telephone between two other things. So here it is, without ceremony.
| Series | St Elowen’s |
|---|---|
| Category | Middle grade. Readers of eight and up, and read-aloud from rather younger. |
| Genre | Boarding school. Mystery, friendship, and the keeping of promises. |
| Tradition | The British boarding-school novel. Blyton’s Malory Towers and St Clare’s, written straight and not as pastiche. |
| Comparison titles | St Elowen’s is a classic boarding-school adventure series for readers who love the friendship, traditions and sense of belonging found in Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, combined with the warmth and humour of Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch. |
| Book One | The Star of Promise. Complete. {{WORD_COUNT_ONE}} words, 21 chapters. |
| Book Two | A Term in Paris. Complete. {{WORD_COUNT_TWO}} words, 21 chapters. |
| Book Three | In development. Outlined. |
| Representation | None. The author is unagented. |
| Submission history | None. Nothing has been submitted anywhere, to anyone. |
| Rights | All rights available, worldwide, in all languages and all formats. |
| Contact | {{AGENT_OR_RIGHTS_EMAIL}} |
The honest position
Nothing has been sent out. That is not an oversight and it is not modesty.
St Elowen’s began as bedtime stories, and then it was finished properly, twice, and then it was left alone while the world around it was built. No manuscript has been submitted. No rights have been sold, optioned, or offered to anybody. Nothing has been self-published. Whatever is here is entirely clean, and it is entirely available.
The author is open to representation, and would a great deal rather be published well than published quickly.
What you can read, and how fast
The first three chapters are on this website, in full, with no form in front of them. Read them now, in about ten minutes, and you will know whether this is for you.
The complete manuscript of either book, a synopsis, a series outline and the premise of the third will be sent the same day they are asked for.
About the author
The author lives in East Sussex, England. The short biography, the long one, the covers and the ISBNs are all in the press kit, and you are welcome to take any of it without asking.
And if you have read this far and it is not for you, that is perfectly all right, and thank you for the minute.