White set up her agency in 2003 after working as an actress for 20 years. Fans of ‘Hollyoaks’ might recognise her; her last acting gig was four years on the soap as Sue Morgan, head of the Morgan family. When the Morgans were written out of the show, White decided to leave acting to spend more time with her children. The impetus to start the agency came when her son’s deputy headmaster asked her to read his manuscript which he was going to self-publish. She did, and when she came back with suggestions, he asked her to represent him with sales and marketing. White arranged a meeting with the Waterstone’s buyer, got the book included in a three-for two offer and decided to become an agent. Her big break came just a year after starting when unpublished children’s author Stanton, after being knocked back by the first five agents at the front of the Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook, turned to the back and found the Eve White agency. He phoned her, they had a great conversation and she told him to send a sample. White eventually signed Stanton with Egmont and since 2006 his Mr Gum books have had sales of more than 3.7m through Nielsen BookScan.Children’s authors such as Stanton make up about 60% of her list. Though her roster of clients has increased steadily, White has kept the business small and nimble – for the first seven years the company consisted of just herself and a roster of freelances, readers and interns. It is no longer a one-woman band, however, as she recently appointed her first assistant, Jack Ramm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-929140","agency","type-agency","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n