Literary Agents

New Authors Showcase is a part of The Barrie James Literary Agency.

This unique website is for those new writers whose work, so far, has not been published.

Many new writers from all over the world use our pages to display their work and their comments may be found elsewhere on this website.

All work is carefully read. We then decide whether to request the first three chapters for further evaluation. If we feel that the work shows promise, then we will request the full manuscript for a final assessment. If we then decide that the work has commercial prospects then you will be asked to sign a regular agents 10% contract with us and your creation will be submitted to appropriate publishing houses with our recommendation. If we choose not to pursue your work, this does not mean that it is substandard, rather, due to the volume of applications received, not all creative and interesting work can be taken on by us. Our web pages are visited by hundreds of people, many are agencies seeking work of a particular nature. This is precisely what New Authors Showcase is for.

New writers need exposure. New Authors Showcase provides this service at a very low cost.

This literary agency makes no charge to writers whose work we have chosen to represent.

For 6 months display on New Authors Showcase we make a charge of £35.00

For 12 months display on new Authors showcase we make a charge of £50.00

Submitting your work

All postal submissions should be accompanied with a completed application form.

1500 words are ideal for your web page. Most of our writers prefer to use the first 200 for a synopsis and the remainder as a sample of their work.

You may prefer to submit your work on-line.

Inclusion on our website does not automatically mean that The Barrie James Literary Agency will represent you as a client.

New Authors Showcase is truly world-wide. We have writers from Scotland to Singapore and from China to Chile and as many pages have an 'instant language interpreter' (courtesy of Alta Vista) non-English works are available to most readers.

Getting work published can be a heart-breaking endeavour, as I know so well. Top writer, Dick Francis, once said to me, "Never give up, keep sending in the work."

I believe that future successful writers will remember, that it was through New Authors Showcase and the World Wide Web that their first book was discovered.
I hope that you will enjoy exploring our website and persevere with your own new works.

Best Wishes... Barrie James.

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