Welcome

Helen Edwards Rights Agency is a specialist agency with a particular focus on offering representation in the US and Canada on behalf of literary agents, publishers and their authors.

 

I’d love to hear from you so do please get in touch if you’d like to know more about me or my clients.

Clients

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Kate Barker established her agency in 2016 and represents a broad range of bestselling authors of fiction and non-fiction.

Bedford Square Publishers is an independent publisher of fiction and non-fiction, founded in 2022 with the goal of discovering irresistible voices that illuminate our world.

Founded in 2000, Bell Lomax Moreton represents a wide range of distinguished authors and illustrators, writing and illustrating adult fiction, non-fiction and children’s books.

Bluemoose Books is an award winning independent publisher of literary fiction based in West Yorkshire, founded in 2006.

Cull & Co. Ltd is a UK-based literary agency formed in 2017 representing fiction and nonfiction.

D H H Literary Agency was founded by David Headley in 2008 and represents an eclectic range of best-selling and award-winning authors.

At Eye Books we publish stories of extraordinary things done by ordinary people. Now proudly embracing our sister imprint for fiction, Lightning Books.

Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency is a boutique agency founded in 2023 with a focus primarily on commercial adult fiction and children’s fiction from middle grade through to YA.

Honno Welsh Women’s Press has been publishing for over 35 years, in Welsh and English, fiction, biography, autobiography, short stories and classics.

HopeRoad is an independent publisher set up in 2010 which promotes literature focussing on Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

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Keane Kataria Literary Agency represents authors of commercial fiction and non-fiction, with a strong focus on women’s fiction, historical fiction and crime fiction.

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KHLA is an independent literary agency founded by Kate Hordern in 1999 representing a broad range of fiction, from commercial to literary and some non-fiction.

Sivagurunathan & Chua is a literary agency based in Malaysia looking to bring new and diverse Malaysian writing to the world.

Brian Langan at Storyline is based in Ireland and represents literary and commercial fiction and creative non-fiction

Imprint of the Year at the British Book Awards 2022. Viper Books is the crime and thriller imprint of Serpent's Tail. Its highly curated list was launched in 2019 and can already boast multiple bestsellers.

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About

I launched my agency in 2020 on the back of over 25 years of experience selling international rights for two major UK publishing houses. I began my publishing career at Headline where I became Foreign Rights Manager before moving to Transworld Publishers (a division of Penguin Random House UK) and enjoying fifteen years as Rights Director. There I had the privilege of handling the US and Canadian rights for bestselling authors including Kate Atkinson, Fiona Barton, Paula Hawkins, Rachel Joyce and Vikas Swarup.

 

With the authors and their books at the heart of what I do, I work closely with my clients, building careers and maintaining relationships with editors overseas for a broad range of fiction and non-fiction titles.

News

March 28, 2020

US rights in Brilliant Novel by Debut Author have been bought by Longinthetooth Editor at HarperCollins, with Canadian rights to Saskatoon Books. They plan to publish simultaneously in January 2050.

April 19, 2020

Mongolian rights to Work of Genius by A N Other are sold to Mares Milk Publications. The bestselling Helicon series featuring wizard web designer Helen Wills has now sold in a record 246 languages.

May 2, 2020

Helen Edwards warms to her theme as Steven Spielberg releases trailer for the long awaited Helicon movie starring Julia Roberts as the prizewinning literary sensation (click here)

Contact

Please contact us via any of the methods below, or complete the enquiry form.