Explore Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romantasy & Horror with Agent John Baker

Date: Thursday 6th February on Zoom

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Amsterdam time)

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Presentation/workshop

8:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Q&A with John

Price: $20 members, $25 non-members/registered users

Last day to register: Wednesday 5th February at midnight

Submission opportunity! Webinar participants may submit to John at Bell Lomax Moreton their manuscript up to 3 months after the webinar following the agency's guidelines. Please write "SCBWI Benelux" in the subject line.

For questions email Fanely at [email protected] or Mayra at [email protected].

John Baker (he/him) joined the agency in 2019, cultivating a list shaped around his passion for science fiction, fantasy, and horror, though has lately also branched out into action/adventure fiction. John focuses on authors writing in the Adult, New Adult, and YA spaces. 

John also leads the wider agency's film & TV desk, is the Secretary of the Association of Author’s Agents, and the co-chair of the AAA’s Bridge Committee. John also serves on the Kingston University MA Publishing Advisory Board. John's authors have won the Imagined Future's Prize, the Future Worlds Prize, been featured on the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts, and have been adapted for cinematic release by Oscar-winning collaborators. 

John is looking for anything under the broad church of speculative fiction, be it fantasy, science fiction, horror, romantasy, or literary speculative. John has built a reputation as a champion of underrepresented voices and stories, be it from creators hailing from the global majority and their diasporas or neurodiverse authors, and naturally gravitates towards this kind of storytelling. In short, if he’s never read a story like yours before, he wants to see it.