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NAME
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Andrew Lownie
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AGENCY
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Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
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AAR MEMBER
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EMAIL
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lownie@globalnet.co.uk
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/
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FICTION GENRES
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Celebrity
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Biography
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Politics
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Science
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Memoirs
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Travel
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Adventure/True Story
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Current Affairs
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Narrative
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Military
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True Crime
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Cultural/Social Issues
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent accepts queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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He is interested in taking mid-career authors to a new level
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He takes on about 20 new clients each year
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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He does NOT represent fiction
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Please review his "How To Submit" guidelines on his agency webpage
- Email/nonfiction: query and 1 page resume, 1 page listing sources used, 1 page synopsis per chapter, 1 page on marketing, 1 page on comparable books, 1 sample chapter
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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Former Director of Curtis Brown/John Farquharson until 1998 when he founded his own agency
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Founder of The Biographers Club (www.biographersclub.co.uk) and formerly literary agent to British PEN.
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Former journalist, bookseller, publisher and author of a dozen books
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EDUCATION
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Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. College of Law, London.
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NEW DEALS
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History
THE ENGLISH KINGDOM IN FRANCE
Author: Juliet Barker
Genres: History
Publisher: Little Brown (UK & US) (2008)
This book, a sequel to 'Agincourt,' will tell the dramatic story of the English conquest, the decades of relatively peaceful settlement, and the final, unexpected collapse of English rule over thirty years later.
Religion
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Memoirs
Fragments of Heaven
Author: Daniel Tammet
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (US) & Hodder (UK)
Autistic savant and best-selling memoirist Daniel Tammet surprises many when he tells them that he is a Christian. In Fragments of Heaven he explains the reasons for and nature of his faith and life as a believer.
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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1453: THE HOLY WAR FOR CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE CLASH OF ISLAM AND THE WEST
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Roger Crowley
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History
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Hyperion (August 16, 2006) |
Crowley chronicles the story of an ancient city and its attraction to members of two major religions--Christians and Muslims.
View book at Amazon
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I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary
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John Higgs
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Biography
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Barricade Books (September 25, 2006) |
View book at Amazon
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When Science Goes Wrong
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Simon LeVay
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Science
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Plume (March 25, 2008) |
Sixteen real stories of when scientific experiments went wrong with disastrous consequences
View book at Amazon
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Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence
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Timothy Good
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Science
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Pegasus Books (November 30, 2007) |
UFO researcher extraordinaire, endeavors to demonstrate that incontrovertible proof of UFOs is being buried by a global conspiracy of governments, academia and the media
View book at Amazon
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