Emily Glenister
Status: OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
I am looking for:
FICTION
✓ Female-led commercial fiction
✓ Upmarket commercial fiction
✓ Diverse and unique voices
✓ Crime and psychological thrillers
✓ Witty, contemporary and observant romcoms
✓ Epic love stories
✓ Smart and quick-witted historical fiction
✓ Gothic fiction (historical OR contemporary)
✓ Female focus and dual timeline narrative
✓ Book club fiction
✓ Magical realism and urban fantasy
✓ Fun retellings (not Greek mythology, please)
✓ Horror novel / ghost story
✓ Short story collections with a ghost / horror theme
NON-FICTION
✓ Historical (monarchy, medicine or women)
✓ Pop culture
✓ Biographies, autobiographies and memoirs
✓ True crime
✗ Novellas
✗ Poetry
✗ Police procedural
✗ Cosy crime
✗ Spicy romance
✗ Screenplays
✗ Children’s books
✗ YA
✗ Sci-fi or straight fantasy
Director & Literary Agent
Emily is currently OPEN for submissions.
Please send your cover letter, first three chapters and a one-page synopsis, and ensure your chapters and synopsis are saved as Word Documents and sent as attachments.
For more information on how to submit, head to our submissions page
EMILY’S CLIENTS
About Emily
Emily Glenister trained to be an actress at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2010 before working as a theatrical agent and assistant in offices that represented the likes of Charlotte Rampling, Sir Roger Moore, Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow.
In 2020, after assisting David Headley for four years in all aspects of the agency, Emily was made an Agent in 2020 before becoming a Director of the company in 2022.
Emily's client list includes Sunday Times top ten bestseller Heather Darwent, TikTok sensation Suzie Edge and top ten Kindle bestseller, Becca Day.