The Viney Agency primarily sells books to publishers, but also provides a full range of services for its clients which includes the selling of film and TV treatments to broadcasters and production companies. We can also organise speaking and promotional engagements.
Many of our authors have been with us since inception, but a distinction of The Viney Agency is taking on writers who may be in mid-career and to bring them to a new level of income and attention. We are always looking for outstanding writing but deliberately do not feature in directories for literary agencies, preferring to work pro-actively in the market with both new and existing clients.
The Viney Agency is one of the UK’s most successful independent agencies and is currently ranked in the top forty of all British and American literary agencies according to the ‘Top Dealmakers’ analysis of contracted deals over the last twelve months in Publisher’s Lunch, the global registrar of deals for the publishing business. The agency represented the number one Christmas 2010 bestseller.
The Viney Agency represents over eighty authors across a wide variety of genres including adult and children's fiction writers, biographers and historians. This website provides a full list of our published authors. Our clients mostly write in English and are based in several countries, the majority in the United Kingdom.
We sell rights directly to the United Kingdom, North America and Australasia, while our foreign language sales are handled by the UK’s leading foreign rights team at Intercontinental Literary Agency (ILA).
Unless otherwise stated dramatic rights are usually handled by the Hollywood based Intellectual Property Group, for whose literary side The Viney Agency also acts exclusively in the UK.
The Viney Agency is a member of the Association of Authors’ Agents and abides by its code of conduct.
