Sam Copeland

Director
Sam Copeland was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year at the 2020 British Book Awards and selected for the Bookseller's Most Influential People in Publishing in 2020. His first job in publishing was at Curtis Brown Literary Agency, where he started in 2001. He joined Rogers, Coleridge and White in 2006 and was made a director in 2016. He has an extremely diverse list of award-winning and bestselling authors, representing writers of both literary and commercial fiction and all genres (including book group, upmarket fiction, crime and thrillers, speculative fiction and historical fiction), children’s and YA, and a smattering of quality non-fiction, and is always open to submissions of the highest standard. He is excited by debuts!
His writers have won or been shortlisted for over 20 major prizes including the Booker, Costa, National Book Awards, Carnegie, Waterstone’s Book of the Year, Waterstone’s Children’s Book of the Year, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, Irish Book Awards, CWA Dagger, Dylan Thomas, Theakston’s, Branford Boase, Eisner and Arthur C Clarke and many more.
He welcomes e-mail submissions and can be contacted on sam@rcwlitagency.com. His assistant is honor@rcwlitagency.com.
He is also a children’s author and you can find his website here – www.sam-copeland.com You can follow him on on Twitter here: @stubbleagent and on instagram here: @samuel_copeland
Assistant: Honor Spreckley
Clients Include:
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Rosie Andrews
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Bryan Appleyard
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Julia Armfield
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David Barbaree
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Tom Becker
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Hannah Berry
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Peter Bradshaw
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Greg Buchanan
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Anthony Cartwright
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Stuart Clark
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Ralph Lazar & Andrew Clover
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Stephen Collins
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Amber Dermont
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Jason Donald
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Christian Donlan
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Matthew Dooley
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Rob Doyle
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Laure Eve
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D.K. Fields
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Sue Gerhardt
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Adam Grant
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Niall Griffiths
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Selina Guinness
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John Harding, Estate of
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Andrew Hughes
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Holly Jackson
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Diane Jeffrey
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Stephen Lloyd Jones
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Thomas Keneally
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Claire Kohda
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Tom Lathan
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George Lester
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Sam Lloyd
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Tim MacGabhann
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Malcolm Mackay
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Ian Mark
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Simon Mayo
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Alex Michaelides
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Magnus Mills
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Stephen Moss
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Abir Mukherjee
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Jenny Pearson
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Stephen Pile
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Rahul Raina
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Richard Russell
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James Smythe
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David Solomons
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Katherine Stansfield
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Annabel Steadman
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Zoë Strachan
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Matthew Suddain
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David Towsey
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Louise Welsh
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Andy West
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Jim Whalley
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Rob Young
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Moji Zelander