A short list of fantasy agents
Fantastic! You've written a fantasy book. You need to find a literary agent for UK and USA publishers because publishers don't look at unsolicited manuscripts (or so they say). You need a publisher because they can make a massive difference to your editing, cover design, production, marketing, distribution, review coverage and bookstore placement.
In all cases below, check the respective websites for submission details. I can't vouch for any of these companies – this is simply my working list of current agents to help you get started. If you find something wrong here, or want to recommend someone, please let me know by adding a comment to this page. There's also the helpful Preditors and Editors site, and Publishers Marketplace.
I think you could try the following fantasy agents in the UK:
ZENOAGENCY.COM
JOHNJARROLD.CO.UK
WADE & DOHERTY: Robin Wade or Broo Doherty rwla.com
ROGERS COLERIDGE
UNITED AGENTS: Ben Evans
ANTONY HARWOOD LTD antonyharwood.com
SHEIL LAND
JANE JUDD LITERARY AGENCY
LONDON INDEPENDENT BOOKS: Carolyn Whitaker
GREEN & HEATON
CONVILLE & WALSH
BRIE BURKEMAN
DAVID HIGHAM
CURTIS BROWN
Also check out Macmillan's New Writing Programme www.macmillan.co.uk and browse other fantasy publishers' sites to see if there are some new and exciting initiatives.
Fantasy agents in the USA that might be interested in fantasy and accept email queries:
Matt Bialer LRibar@sjga.com
Ethan Ellenberg agent@ethanellenberg.com
John Rudolph jrudolph@dystel.com
John Silbersack jsilbersack@tridentmediagroup.com
Adam adam@artistsandartisans.com
Jill Grinberg info@grinbergliterary.com
Suzie Townsend Suzie@fineprintlit.com
Linn Prentis via ahayden@linnprentis.com
Roseanne Wells queries@stronglit.com
Nathan nb@cbltd.com Curtis Brown
Kimberley Cameron info@kimberleycameron.com
Nicholas Croche submissions@thecroceagency.com
Joe Monti query@bgliterary.com
Jodi Reamer via ashane@writershouse.com
Danielle danielle.submission@gmail.com – www.upstartcrowliterary.com
Sara Megibow query@nelsonagency.com
info@maassagency.com Jennifer Jackson
Russell Galen russellgalen@sgglit.com
Frances Collin queries@francescollin.com
Lucienne Diver submissions@knightagency.net
Scott Hoffman HoffmanQueries@Gmail.com – foliolit.com
Jennifer jennL@andreabrownlit.com
If you're in a small market (New Zealand, South Africa, Majikistan) then here's the basic problem you face. SciFi and Fantasy in your country is probably not bought by enough people to make your book viable for local publishers. However, if you can get a UK or US publisher interested, they DO have a market large enough to make a profit. Unless your story has too many cultural references to be appreciated by foreigners, you should have a global readership.
You could try to find local publishers (in your country) or small publishers (in UK/USA) who accept direct author submissions by searching on the internet, but I can't say I know of many that regularly publish fantasy and scifi and aren't simply fronts for publishing via CreateSpace/POD printers.
