Correspondence
Write to her,
or to the right desk
Every letter is read, though not always quickly — Vell answers post in one sitting each month. If your enquiry is professional, sending it to the correct desk below will get you an answer in days rather than weeks.
- Post read monthly
- Agency replies in 3–5 days
- No manuscript submissions
01The form
Send a message
One form, sorted by subject at this end. Please don't attach manuscripts — they are deleted unread, which is a rule that protects everyone.
Straight to the right desk
- Literary agency
- Ashcroft & Vane, London
- Everything contractual: rights, translation, film and television, permissions.
- Festival & venue booking
- events@ashcroftvane.example
- Dates, capacity, fee and travel in the first message, please.
- Press & interviews
- press@vantryash.example
- Publicity at Vantry & Ash handles review copies and photographs.
- Signed copies
- The Wren Bookshop, Rhinebeck
- The only shop that stocks signed stock; they post worldwide.
- Letters to the author
- c/o Vantry & Ash, 14 Marchmont St, London
- Physical post is genuinely welcome, and genuinely slow.
A note on manuscripts
Vell cannot read unpublished work, offer editorial feedback, or provide cover quotes for books she has not been sent by a publisher. This is not indifference; it is the only way the answer stays fair to everybody.
02The letter
A letter, a few times a year
Field notes, new chapters and event invitations before they are announced anywhere else. Four or five sends a year, never more.