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Elisabeth Weed, partner

Elisabeth Weed began her publishing career at Curtis Brown in 1999. In 2007, she opened her own agency, Weed Literary, where she began focusing primarily on upmarket fiction. Building on her success there, she co-founded The Book Group in 2015. She is committed to working with authors not just on individual titles, but for the long term, and loves discovering new voices. Her clients’ novels have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, international bestseller lists around the globe, have been chosen as Good Morning America book club picks, as well as having sold over a million copies worldwide.

She’s drawn to big, propulsive fiction that grabs you from the first page and won’t let go. She’s especially interested in atmospheric thrillers, dark psychological suspense, mystery and crime fiction and voice driven upmarket commercial novels with strong hooks. She loves books that appeal to both commercial and literary readers—stories that are transportive and keep her up late at night, either with the lights on out of fear, or with a box of tissues by her side.

Her current wishlist includes:

  • Fresh genre-bending suspense and puzzle-box mysteries

  • Voice driven, page-turning novels with emotional resonance—stories that entertain and linger long after the last page

  • Atmospheric thrillers and dark psychological suspense

  • All things dark academia, gothic or class related, either in contemporary or historical fiction

  • Dual timelines and ambitious plot structures

A few books I loved reading in my free time...  The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab, God of the Woods by Liz Moore, In the Woods by Tana French, The Change by Kristen Miller, None of this is True by Lisa Jewell, My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

Elisabeth Weed's Client List: