{"id":1991,"name":"Viola Hayden","url":"viola-hayden","department":{"id":2,"name":"Books","url":"books"},"phone":"","email":"viola.hayden@curtisbrown.co.uk","summary":"","bio":"<p><span><b>Please note that I am closed to new submissions, as of January 2026. I will re-open in January 2027.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p><p><span>I was a publisher for the first seven or so years of my career,\u00a0before I moved to Curtis Brown and agenting \u2013 and I\u2019m grateful to have found a\u00a0position in this wonderful business that allows me to still work with writers\u00a0and their manuscripts everyday, but to have our interests totally aligned.<\/span><\/p><div><br\/><div><span>I represent both fiction and non-fiction but skew towards the\u00a0former, and almost always towards the more commercial end of the scale. I also\u00a0work alongside Jonny Geller and co-agent on his incredible list.<\/span><div><span><br\/><\/span><\/div><div><span>Where fiction is concerned, if you ask me to choose between\u00a0story and style, I\u2019ll go for story every time \u2013 although of course the best\u00a0books deliver both. I represent historical fiction (Kate Foster, Claire Evans),\u00a0suspense and crime (Trisha Sakhlecha, Morgan Greene), contemporary female\u00a0writers (Amanda Prowse, Emma Gannon, Serena Terry, Kerry Downes) \u2013 and am always looking for brilliant genre and book club books. I\u2019d love to find a\u00a0timeless big-hearted love story (<\/span><i>P.S. I Love You, Me Before You<\/i><span>), some\u00a0unputdownable suspense (<i>Gone Girl<\/i>), a crime series with a returning character\u00a0like Ernest Cunningham (Benjamin Stevenson), and the ultimate escape:\u00a0historical fiction (The<\/span><i> Seven\u00a0Sisters\u00a0<\/i><span>series, <\/span><i>The\u00a0Nightingale<\/i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><i>The\u00a0Binding<\/i><span>).<\/span><br\/><span><br\/><\/span><\/div><div><span>In non-fiction I represent experts in their field (Dr Sam Bunting,\u00a0Dr Andrea Oskis), commentators and agenda setters (Emma Gannon, Jess Morgan), creators\u00a0with significant platforms (Rich Roll, Arnold Schwarzenegger), and astonishing memoirists\u00a0(Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Richard Ratcliffe, Rosamund Dean).\u00a0I\u2019d love to find a (female) young historian,\u00a0some freshly framed personal development, and smart and crucially positive\u00a0thinking from experts that will challenge and revolutionise the way we see\u00a0ourselves.<\/span><br\/><span><br\/><\/span><\/div><div><span>I am not looking to represent science fiction, fantasy,\u00a0romantasy, horror, erotica, or books for children and young adults.\u00a0<\/span><br\/><span><br\/><\/span><\/div><div><span>If you'd like to\u00a0submit to me, please\u00a0email me at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:viola.hayden@curtisbrown.co.uk\">viola.hayden@curtisbrown.co.uk<\/a><span>\u00a0with:<\/span><ul><li>Your query letter\u00a0<b>in the\u00a0body of the email.<\/b><\/li><li>A synopsis\/proposal\u00a0<b>in a Word\u00a0document, attached to the email.<\/b><\/li><li>Your first 10,000 words\u00a0<b>in\u00a0a Word document, attached to the email.<\/b><\/li><\/ul><span>Thank you<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>","profile_photo":79873,"show_clients":true,"links":{},"meta_tags":"viola-hayden","media_urls":{"79873":{"uuid":"a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a","protected":false,"urls":{"original":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/original","horizontal":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/horizontal","700x373":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/700x373","262x140":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/262x140","square":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/square","700x700":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/700x700","328x328":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/328x328","139x139":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/139x139","73x73":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/73x73","vertical":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/vertical","600x732":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/600x732","300x360":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/300x360","650x650":"\/media\/a3448301-7674-414d-90bc-da7adab4b92a\/show\/650x650"}}}}