{"id":29,"name":"Felicity Blunt","url":"felicity-blunt","department":{"id":2,"name":"Books","url":"books"},"phone":"+44 (0)20 7522 238946","email":"bluntoffice@curtisbrown.co.uk","bio":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><\/p><p><\/p><p><br\/><\/p><p><br\/><\/p><!--StartFragment--><div style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;color: inherit;\">I first trained as a barrister before interning at both the Wylie Agency and Curtis Brown. I officially joined Curtis Brown in 2005 and have worked for the company both from London and New York. I represent authors that span the literary to commercial spectrum, including Booker Prize shortlisted Claire Keegan, Women's Prize shortlisted Meg Mason, in addition to Sunday Times and NYT bestselling authors Abi Dar\u00e9, Elizabeth\u00a0<\/span>Day<span style=\"font-size: 16px;color: inherit;\">, Shari Lapena, Rosamund Lupton, Gillian McAllister and Bonnie Garmus.\u00a0<\/span><\/div><div style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;color: inherit;\"><br\/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;color: inherit;\"><br\/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: left;\">Alongside<span style=\"font-size: 16px;color: inherit;\">\u00a0my work with debut authors I am privileged to work with the Estates of Daphne du Maurier and Jilly Cooper, both of whom represent all that I look for in fiction: original stories, sharp observation of human behaviours and a singular voice.\u00a0<\/span><\/div><div style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;color: inherit;\"><br\/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;color: inherit;\"><br\/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: inherit;\">My non-fiction list consists of bestselling cookery writers Anna Jones, Rukmini Iyer, Claire Ptak and CAA client Samin Nosrat, as well as Stanley Tucci\u2019s food memoirs, TASTE and WHAT I ATE IN ONE YEAR.\u00a0<\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: inherit;\"><br\/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: inherit;\"><br\/><\/span><\/div><div style=\"font-size: 16px;text-align: left;\">I\u00a0work with all of my clients in the 360, helping to form a strategy that straddles not only the domestic and international sales of their books, but also the exploitation of their media rights. Alongside my work as a literary agent I serve as an EP on the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper\u2019s RIVALS, which won an International Emmy in 2025 with a second series set to drop in May 2026.<\/div><!--EndFragment--><p><br\/><\/p><p><br\/><\/p><p><\/p><p>My fiction tastes are broad but are unified by my desire to represent unique stories and smart voices. What I want is to feel passionate about the narrative and believe absolutely in the world an author has crafted. I love thrillers, suspense, crime, historical, women\u2019s and literary fiction. I\u2019m open to outstanding speculative fiction, or that which imagines alternative histories.<\/p><p>In non-fiction writers I want someone who can write beautifully and evocatively about their subject and have the potential to change the way I think or act, be it what I put on my plate or how I see society.<\/p><p><\/p><p><span style=\"color: black;\"><b>Thank you so much for sharing your work with me for my consideration.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"color: black;\">I am afraid I am temporarily closed to submissions due to very limited capacity on my list.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\">Please do submit to one of my colleagues at Curtis Brown,<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\" style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtisbrown.co.uk\/section\/books\/agents\" title=\"https:\/\/www.curtisbrown.co.uk\/section\/books\/agents\" style=\"color: purple;\">https:\/\/www.curtisbrown.co.uk\/section\/books\/agents<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p>","profile_photo":93815,"show_clients":true,"links":{"http:\/\/youtu.be\/CKANmjsX6jU":"Google Hangout: How to get Published","http:\/\/www.aol.com\/build\/519126670\/":"Felicity LIVE on AOL Build","http:\/\/www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk\/blog\/literary-agent-felicity-blunt-1\/":"Agent Secrets: Felicity Blunt","http:\/\/www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk\/2016\/my-bookshelfie-felicity-blunt":"Bailey's Prize - My Bookshelfie"},"meta_tags":"felicity-blunt-literary-agent,felicity-blunt-agent,felicity-blunt-clients","media_urls":{"93815":{"uuid":"9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb","protected":false,"urls":{"original":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/original","horizontal":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/horizontal","700x373":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/700x373","262x140":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/262x140","square":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/square","700x700":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/700x700","328x328":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/328x328","139x139":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/139x139","73x73":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/73x73","vertical":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/vertical","600x732":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/600x732","300x360":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/300x360","650x650":"\/media\/9cccd711-a726-43aa-b9a1-56495c1b00bb\/show\/650x650"}}}}