Becca Langton

An agent with Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency (see other agents at this agency).

About

Becca joined the DACBA team in 2021 after ten years working in IP development, editorial consultancy and scouting (the super sleuth of the publishing world). She has spent four years building a Children’s, illustration, YA and Crossover to New Adult list with a focus on the North American market.
Recent deals have resulted in USA Today and NY Times Bestsellers, YALSA Award winners and deals across all Big 5 publishers as well as a host of brilliant indies.
Becca is an editorial agent and is particularly keen to work with authors and illustrators who are looking for a close partnership in developing books from concept to fully fledged manuscript. She is career focused and is always interested in developing talented creators, particularly those writing from marginalised perspectives.

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The stories that I’m in search of are the ones that are in the perfect middle ground of quality and commercial. I like page-turners, plot twists and big feels but am a sucker for lush writing, beautiful world building and show stopping prose.
At the top end of the market I’m looking for YA and Crossover stories in the speculative, fantasy, horror and romance spaces. I’m particularly keen to find stories structured for pace and plot, romance that leans into all the tropes and characters that surprise you (and not always in the good way.)
I would love to find stories in the ‘cozy’ space, either cozy fantasy (think Legends and Lattes for younger readers) or cozy romance (Heart Stopper or contemporary romance with a domestic/coffee shop coziness). I’d love to find Sleepless in Seattle in book form for younger readers, or the next Nora Ephron. I love humour with bite and grew up on Georgia Nicholson so anything that has the touch of the absurd is absolutely for me.
I am all about the big hook – and have a big soft spot for speculative or fantasy stories with a trial or competition at their heart (The Hunger Games, Inheritance Games or Thieves Gambit all spring to mind!)
I’m particularly keen to see stories centring LGBTQ+ characters and relationships, both contemporary, fantasy and in between.
In the Middle Grade space I am looking for big fantasy or speculative stories that will create a reader for life – the kind of story that have kids reading by torchlight long after lights out. I’d like to find a really lush transition story for the ambitious middle grader who wants to read up as well as the young adult who likes the safe space of children’s fiction but isn’t quite ready for the content of the upper-end YA space. I love magic and world building that feels so real it might just be true. I’d love to find a story that has ‘classic’ written all over it.
If you have a story that has mythology, folk lore or an historical angle from a marginalised perspective please do send it my way.
I’m taking on a very select number of picture book authors but am still looking for author-illustrators at every age range, from picture book all the way up to Young Adult.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Middle grades, Young adults.

Genres:

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Action-Adventure Open to all/most Subgenres
Fantasy Open to all/most Subgenres
Romance Subgenre: Romantic Comedy

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

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The agent will try to make a decision within 90 days.
Most recent response reported was received on 22 Sep 2025.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 24 Jun 2025.
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Last Updated: 22 May 2026

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