Bath Literary Agency offers representation and career management to authors and illustrators of fiction and non-fiction. We are uniquely placed to offer authors the opportunity to work in partnership with their agent, and we aim to help them to become industry and market aware, ready for their future as a published author.

The agency represents writers of poetry, picture books, young fiction, middle grade fiction, YA fiction and non-fiction, as well as adult fiction and non-fiction. It also looks after Illustrators including author-illustrators and graphic novelists who write their own work.

Agent Gill McLay graduated with a Publishing & Marketing BA Hons degree from Oxford Brookes University in 1996 and has worked in the world of publishing ever since. Offering over 30 years of industry experience from a sales, marketing and commercial side she is able to offer a truly supportive service that complements the roles of authors and illustrators.

Gill has worked with small independent publisher Barefoot Books and large global publisher Egmont. She understands the industry. From product development to co-ordinating marketing campaigns with UK retailers, Gill’s experience offers an understanding of all the different roles and sectors within the world of books that together take authors’ stories from idea to reader.

She works with her clients to create and nurture supportive and successful partnerships with publishers. Gill is ably supported by the rest of the team: Sarah, Lisa, Lauren, Miri and John.

Gill was the co-founder of the Bath Festival of Children’s Literature and now runs Events of Wonder with her husband, John McLay. eventsofwonder.com