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Ask The Agent — Hannah Schofield
Simon Whaley caught up with romance-loving Hannah Schofield after she won the Romantic Novelist Association’s Agent of the Year award for the second year running.
This feature first appeared in print in the April 2024 issue of Writing Magazine
Hannah Schofield joined the LBA literary agency in 2018. Prior to that, she worked for a literary scout and gained experience in dealing with translation rights. Growing up in Luxembourg gave her an insight into the global publishing world, so she’s always looking for stories that may have an international appeal. Hannah loves the world of romance, and the RNA loves her, for they’ve awarded her their Agent of the Year award in 2022 and 2023.
Before you were an agent, you were a literary scout. What does a literary scout do?
Literary scouts work as consultants for international publishers and/or production companies to find the very best manuscripts or fill specific commissioning requests for their clients. I worked mainly in children’s scouting, which meant I reviewed middle-grade and YA (Young Adult) manuscripts that were on submission in order to find the top-tier ones to recommend to our clients. Scouts also need to know all the publishing gossip, so there’s a…
