Sophie Cudd

Sophie Cudd joined The Book Group as Associate Agent in 2023, after nearly four years at William Morris Endeavor. Born and raised in Nashville, TN, Sophie has a degree in English Literature from Southern Methodist University, studied Shakespeare at the University of Oxford, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

She represents a variety of authors and books, including New York Times bestsellers, groundbreaking debuts, highly anticipated children’s books, and Grammy-award winning songwriters. Sophie is drawn to accessible and deeply resonant characters, plot-driven stories with a strong sense of time and place, and is a sucker for a twist she never saw coming.

Below is an incomplete, ever-changing list of what Sophie is looking for:

Fiction

• High-concept literary fiction that spans generations, cultures, time periods. Any writing that can make my heart ache
• Historical figures reimagined – particularly figures from non-Western history and folklore
• Thriller & suspense that makes me feel feverish
• Adventures with that cult-classic aura
• Upmarket & bookclubby “witchy” mysteries, in the vein of The Cloisters and The London Séance Society 
• Love stories with bite – ones that can make me laugh, cry, see the world through a new perspective
• Fresh, speculative fiction that can capture human behavior in an Orwellian way
• Stories set in the south

Nonfiction:

• Art history and literary history
• Sophisticated, narrative and empirical deep dives into distinct topics across science, history and culture, in the vein of No Visible Bruises and The Body Keeps the Score 
• The science of consciousness and/or psychology, especially works that can bring theorizing and data into the practical realm of everyday lives. A favorite includes The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
• Memoirs with big stories to tell
• Essay collections that can flip society and culture on its head
• Food writing and cookbooks! Any cuisine or cultural background. There’s nothing I love more than making a new recipe

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be emailed to submissions@thebookgroup.com

When you’re ready to send us your submission, please email a query letter and 10 sample pages to submissions@thebookgroup.com. You will receive a bounce back to your query, which you should consider receipt of your work. Please include all materials in the body of the email, as we can’t open attachments. We only accept electronic queries sent to submissions@thebookgroup.com, and do not accept paper queries or queries by phone. Please include the name of the agent to whom you are submitting in the subject line of your query email.

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