Tibor Jones & Associates was founded in 2007 by Kevin Conroy Scott and Landa Acevedo-Scott as a literary management company dedicated to building the careers of bestselling authors and creative leaders in their fields.
Tibor Jones & Associates was founded in 2007 by Kevin Conroy Scott and Landa Acevedo-Scott as a literary management company dedicated to building the careers of bestselling authors and creative leaders in their fields.
Kevin Conroy Scott co-founded Tibor Jones & Associates with his wife Landa Acevedo-Scott in 2007 after working as a literary agent at AP Watt and Conville & Walsh.
Kevin is an alumnus of the infamous New Line Cinema mailroom and his journalism has appeared in the New Statesman, Variety, the Independent, the Bookseller, LA Weekly and Written By magazine. He is the author of Screenwriters’ Masterclass (Faber & Faber) and the co-founder of Colombiage, London’s first Colombian festival of culture and the arts.
Landa is an alumna of the Barbican Centre where she worked on ground-breaking projects like Tropicália and the contemporary music programme. In 2007, she co-founded Tibor Jones with her husband Kevin Conroy Scott while also co-founding Colombiage, the first festival in Europe to showcase writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists from her native Colombia.
Landa graduated in European Business Management & French at Lancaster University spending her second and fourth year at leading business schools, ICADE Madrid and École de Management de Lyon respectively.
James began his career as a fiction editor at Picador (UK) before moving to South Africa in 2003 to work at Kwela Books. Following this, he worked as a freelance editor (specialising in new African voices), and was a founding member of the Franschhoek Literary Festival – now the most prestigious book event in southern Africa. In 2009 he was appointed fiction editor at Penguin South Africa and in 2012 he returned to Kwela Books as publisher.
As an agent, James is passionate about stories from Africa, but his interests range from strong commercial crime fiction to high-end literary work.
Mary is book-keeper at Tibor Jones.
Mary developed her administrative, organisational and financial skills through various administrative positions in healthcare, education, the financial and enterprise sector and latterly with Tibor Jones. She studied languages at Galway University, subsequently taking a Post Graduate Certificate in Education.
Reading is one of Mary’s favourite ways to spend time and the team at Tibor Jones provide some wonderful opportunities for her to indulge her habit.
We welcome enquiries. In particular, we are interested in receiving fiction and non-fiction proposals by writers who are looking to publish something different. If you are interested in having Tibor Jones look at your material then we ask you to email the following to enquiries@tiborjones.com:
A cover letter telling us about you and your writing background.
A one page synopsis of the book, and the first five pages of the novel or proposal.
If we are interested in seeing more, we will email you requesting it. If it’s not for us, we’ll endeavour to get back to you as soon as we can.
If you are interested in learning more about what we do, please email any questions to enquiries@tiborjones.com.