David H Headley
Managing Director
David Headley studied theology in London and Durham before co-founding and becoming the Managing Director of Goldsboro Books, a much admired, leading independent bookseller, based in central London.
David has spent the last 21 years establishing Goldsboro Books and building good relationships with editors within the UK’s major publishing houses. He has a good eye for what readers want to read and he has gained a reputation for championing debut authors. He created the UK’s largest collectors’ book club and is influential in selling large quantities of hardback fiction in the UK. David has won awards for bookselling and in 2015 and 2020, he was included in the Top 100 most influential people in publishing by The Bookseller.
David is the managing director of the D H H Literary Agency which he founded in 2008 and represents an eclectic range of best-selling and award-winning authors.
David is actively looking for: character-driven debuts and epic sweeping stories with big universal themes. Issue-driven crime and thrillers, high concepts and fear-inducing suspense. Thought-provoking stories, original narrative voices, uplifting fiction and emotional journeys - "stories that I don't want to end". David also accepts non-fiction submissions, from memoir, biography and history to politics, science, popular culture and food.
David is not looking for books for children, young adult [YA], poetry, plays, screenplays & short stories / novellas. For the time being, he is also not looking for books covering a pandemic or virus.
Follow David on Twitter: @davidhheadley
Submissions:
Please send your cover letter, first three chapters and a one page synopsis to submission@dhhliteraryagency.com. Please ensure your cover letter is in the body of the email and the synopsis and chapters are saved as a Word document or PDF and sent as attachments.
David has spent the last 21 years establishing Goldsboro Books and building good relationships with editors within the UK’s major publishing houses. He has a good eye for what readers want to read and he has gained a reputation for championing debut authors. He created the UK’s largest collectors’ book club and is influential in selling large quantities of hardback fiction in the UK. David has won awards for bookselling and in 2015 and 2020, he was included in the Top 100 most influential people in publishing by The Bookseller.
David is the managing director of the D H H Literary Agency which he founded in 2008 and represents an eclectic range of best-selling and award-winning authors.
David is actively looking for: character-driven debuts and epic sweeping stories with big universal themes. Issue-driven crime and thrillers, high concepts and fear-inducing suspense. Thought-provoking stories, original narrative voices, uplifting fiction and emotional journeys - "stories that I don't want to end". David also accepts non-fiction submissions, from memoir, biography and history to politics, science, popular culture and food.
David is not looking for books for children, young adult [YA], poetry, plays, screenplays & short stories / novellas. For the time being, he is also not looking for books covering a pandemic or virus.
Follow David on Twitter: @davidhheadley
Submissions:
Please send your cover letter, first three chapters and a one page synopsis to submission@dhhliteraryagency.com. Please ensure your cover letter is in the body of the email and the synopsis and chapters are saved as a Word document or PDF and sent as attachments.
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