Gaia Banks is an agent at Sheil Land Associates. Banks joined the agency in 2004, after working in translation rights at John Murray. For 17 years the agent looked after the translation interests of Sheil Land's authors before becoming a primary agent full-time at the start of 2022. Banks has worked in publishing for over 20 years.
Gaia Banks takes on one or two new writers a year, and when doing so looks for projects with wide international appeal.
Book submissions are emailed, with the agent's name, genre and title in the subject line; the address is on the agency's website. Send one work at a time, the strongest if you have several. For fiction, send a one-page synopsis of the full story with twists and ending, plus the first three chapters or around 50 typed pages; wait to be asked before sending the full manuscript. No reply within 12 weeks means it was not for them. Work that has used AI technology is not accepted.
Compiled from Sheil Land Associates Ltd.'s own website. Check there for the latest before you submit.