Representation
We negotiate on our writers' behalf with publishers in India, the United Kingdom, the United States and beyond, and we manage the relationship for the life of the work.
Summerhouse
Literary
Scroll — the sun sets
The house
The most interesting writing is not always done where the publishing is.
Summerhouse Literary represents writers of fiction and non-fiction for publication throughout the world. We are a small agency by design. We take on few writers, we work on the book before it goes anywhere, and we stay with an author across a career rather than a single title.
Between us we have run editorial programmes, commissioned across two continents, and worked with writers at every stage from first draft to final proof. We work out of Delhi and London, and we sell into the English-language markets, the translation territories, and film and television.
What we do
Rights
Translation, audio, serial and dramatic rights are handled by the agency, directly or through co-agents in the major territories.
Editorial
We work on manuscripts before they are submitted. A book goes out when it is ready, not when it arrives.
Screen
We work with producers on adaptation, and advise our writers on option and adaptation terms.
The people
Shreya Chakraborti
Editorial
Shreya Chakraborti was Editorial Manager at Bloomsbury Publishing India, where she led the editorial programme across history, politics, law, economics, business and trade, managing a panel of twenty copy-editors and proofreaders and signing off on every cover and blurb across the front and back lists. Before Bloomsbury she was Deputy Managing Editor at Rupa Publications and Aleph Book Company. She read English at St Stephen's College, Delhi.
Dr Roshan Khanande
Non-fiction
Dr Roshan Khanande is a psychiatrist at one of Asia's largest mental hospitals, where he has spent his career treating the conditions of modern life at close range. He is the co-author of Own Your Mind, a science-backed, story-driven account of how the nature of psychological distress has changed in the last decade. He writes both non-fiction and fiction, and in both is chiefly interested in what a person is actually made of.
Submissions
We are open, and we read everything that reaches us.
Send
A covering letter, a synopsis of no more than two pages, and the first fifty pages, as a single attachment.
Tell us
Who you are, what the book is, and who it is for. We would rather have the truth than the pitch.
Then
We aim to reply within eight weeks. There is no reading fee, at any stage.