Sam Copeland is an agent and director at Rogers, Coleridge and White. His first job in publishing was at Curtis Brown, where he started in 2001 and he joined RCW in 2006. His writers have won or been shortlisted for over 20 major prizes including the Booker, Costa, National Book Awards, Carnegie, Waterstone’s Book of the Year, Waterstone’s Children’s Book of the Year, Irish Book Awards, CWA Dagger, Dylan Thomas, Branford Boase, Eisner and Arthur C Clarke and many more.

Writers he represents include: Abir Mukherjee (Harvill Secker), Louise Welsh (John Murray), Bryan Appleyard (Weidenfeld), Stephen Collins (Jonathan Cape), Laure Eve (Faber), John Harding (Harper Collins), Jason Donald (Jonathan Cape), Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld and Nicolson), Simon Mayo (Random House and Canongate), James Smythe (Harper Collins and Hodder), Magnus Mills (Bloomsbury) and Mark Edwards (Harper Collins).