The Literary Consultancy
The Literary Consultancy (TLC), the UK’s leading manuscript assessment service, provides expert, market-aware editorial advice to writers at all levels writing in English. From the London Book Fair to the Suzhou Literary Festival in China and the international New Writing Worlds Symposium at the University of East Anglia this June, TLC is widely respected by writers everywhere.
Founded in 1996, The Literary Consultancy is recommended by The Arts Council England and major publishing houses, and holds a strong track record of helping writers get into print, including a successful mentoring scheme, Chapter & Verse. New writers are offered detailed critical assessments of their fiction, non fiction, autobiography, children’s books, film/TV/theatre/radio scripts, and poetry at all stages of development, and TLC has strong working connections with leading publishers and agents such as Curtis Brown, Penguin Books, Bloomsbury, Hodder Headline, Faber and Faber, Transita Press, Serpent’s Tail and many more…
“Yet again The Literary Consultancy have come up with a scheme that is both cutting-edge and a winner. Think of the mentoring scheme as a literary life support machine so sign up and get creative.”
Simon Trewin, literary agent, on TLC’s mentoring scheme
“TLC introduced my work to agents and publishers on my behalf. I suspect no-one would have looked at it otherwise.”
Jenny Downham, author of Before I Die (David Fickling Books/ Random House)
“Editorial acumen and wisdom is difficult to find, and TLC possesses both. My first novel has found its way onto Waterstone’s Summer Reads list and it would have not got there without TLC.”
Nick Taussig, author of Love and Mayhem (Revolver Books)
