🧑🏫 AGENT HOUR: Query Letter Feedback & AMA w/ Literary Agent John Ash
** This is a LIVE session and will not be recorded. **
Want to crack the code of the publishing industry?
Agent Hours is your chance to connect directly with literary agents, ask questions, and see live feedback on query letters—all in a dynamic, interactive session designed to help you level up your querying game.
This week, we're thrilled to welcome literary agent John Ash to Agent Hour.
Ask your questions about:
The Querying Process: From crafting the perfect pitch to landing your dream agent.
Author/Agent Relationships: What makes a successful partnership?
Query Letter Feedback: Submit yours and learn what works—and what doesn’t.
Even if you don’t get direct feedback, you’ll gain invaluable insights from hearing agents tackle real questions and query letters.
How It Works
1️⃣ Submit Your Questions or Query Letters: Ticket holders will receive instructions on submitting questions or query letters upon purchase.
2️⃣ Show Up Live: Join us on Zoom for a 60-minute, ask-me-anything-style session.
3️⃣ Listen & Learn: Watch agents answer questions, share insider advice, and offer live feedback.
⚠️ Please note: While we aim to address as many submissions as possible, attendance and ticket purchase does not guarantee feedback. Priority feedback goes to London Writers’ Salon members (Silver and Gold). If time permits, we will turn to questions and query letters from ticketed attendees.
Perks for Gold Members 🏆
Priority Feedback: Gold members’ questions and query letters will be addressed first.
Recorded Insights: Can’t make it live? Gold members can submit their questions/query letters in advance and receive a private recording.
👉 Not a Gold member yet? Find out more about Gold Membership here.
🎟️ Limited tickets available for non-members. Secure your spot now!
About John Ash
John Ash is an agent in the London office of CAA. His authors include Missouri Williams, Oliver Darkshire, Catherine Airey, Leah Broad, Orlando Whitfield, Sanam Maher, Patrick Joyce, James Marriott, and Kate Molleson.
He began his career in publishing at PEW Literary, where he worked for six and a half years before joining CAA in 2023.
His fiction tastes are varied, but he is particularly drawn to beautiful and unusual literary fiction, ambitious and expansive novels about family or love, and anything formally innovative or compulsively page-turning. In nonfiction, his writers cover areas as diverse as the history of the European peasantry, the art market, new theories of friendship, antiquarian bookselling, and the concept of narcissism.
He is open to submissions of literary and general fiction, as well as a wide range of nonfiction. For fiction submissions, please send a cover letter, synopsis, and the first three chapters or opening 50 pages. For nonfiction, please send a cover letter and proposal.
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