Jason Bartholomew

An agent with The bks Agency (see other agents at this agency).

About

Originally from America, Jason Bartholomew spent ten years working in New York publishing, primarily for Hachette Book Group USA. He moved to Hachette UK in 2008 where he was the Rights Director across Hodder & Stoughton, Headline Publishing Group, Quercus Books, and John Murray Press.
In addition to the Rights Director role, in 2015, he also became the Publishing Director of Quercus US in New York. At Quercus US, Jason helped publish authors including Peter May, David Attenborough, Pierre LeMaitre, Timur Vermes, Damien Lewis, Louise O’Neill, and John Connolly. He completed a Masters in Business Administration at Imperial College in 2017.
Jason is also the CEO of the award-winning Cultural Communications Agency Midas, which provides bespoke PR, social & marketing campaigns for arts and publishing clients from its London and NY offices.
Jason would like it recorded that he was drinking coffee — because he’s American and coffee is better than tea.

Country

United Kingdom

AI Policy

Human-created work only; no AI use allowed

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Crime
Suspense/Thriller Open to all/most Subgenres

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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I am looking for history, politics, current affairs, biographies, memoirs, narrative non-fiction

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
History: General, Biographies.
Memoir.
Politics/Political Science.
Society/Culture: Current events.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Last Updated: 21 Aug 2026

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