JONATHAN RUPPIN
Authors at the Ruppin Agency benefit from representation from one of the most knowledgeable and best connected people in the book trade. Jonathan has more than 25 years of experience working with books and authors, and the many people who connect them with the reading public.
Unlike many agents, he has worked for chain and indie booksellers – on the shopfloor, online and, for many years, at head office. So he has extensive first-hand knowledge of what makes readers buy books, and how bookshops make their decisions on what to stock among the six-figure quantity of new books published each year.
He also has strong relationships with all of the UK’s major publishers – not just their editors, but also their sales, marketing and publicity staff, who now play such a central role in deciding what publishers acquire.
He has also worked for publishers and agents, judged literary awards, appeared across the media, interviewed hundreds of authors, and consulted for publishers, literary journals, festivals, editorial services and prizes.
Books sold by the Ruppin Agency have won the Portico Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Award.
EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY
As the Director of the Writer’s Studio, Emma is responsible for ensuring writers are matched with suitable mentors. She is also available as a mentor herself, in London and Hertfordshire or via videocall.
Emma is a central academic at the Open University, where she chairs and designs undergraduate and post-graduate creative writing courses. She was formerly Director of Professional Tutoring at New York University – London, and she co-founded City University of London’s year-long novel-writing course. She has a great deal of experience managing and mentoring colleagues, and has planned, co-ordinated and delivered salon series, workshop programmes and writing residencies.
An award-winning writer herself, Emma has published Owl Song at Dawn (Legend Press 2016), a novel set in Morecambe and inspired by her autistic sister, and A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendship of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf (Aurum/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017), co-written with Emily Midorikawa and featuring a foreward by Margaret Atwood. She is currently working on a new novel.
Please note that Emma does not offer representation to authors.
Translation rights are handled by The Marsh Agency and screen rights are handled by Valerie Hoskins Associates.
The Ruppin Agency is a member of the Association of Authors’ Agents.
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