About Us

For more than 20 years, Caroline has worked to create award-winning children’s book content with many leading publishers across the world. Her ability to marry strong storylines from published authors, with amazing illustrations from professional artists, culminates in picture and chapter books that are full of the ideas that young minds crave. After all, great stories create passionate and independent readers. Caroline and her team at CWLA provide a one-to-one service, ensuring publishers and authors receive the time and dedication their projects deserve.

Milly has been working in the creative industries for nearly twenty years. During her degree in Costume Interpretation at Wimbledon School of Art she worked for the milliner, Philip Treacy. Post graduation she worked as PA to Dame Julia Peyton Jones at the Serpentine Gallery, followed by working for Damien Hirst for ten years, eventually heading up his studios across the UK and working on various projects around the world. She has subsequently worked as a Private EA and a Freelance Illustrator, securing projects with Derwent, Uniball, Waitrose Food magazine and Country Living magazine as well as writing articles for Leisure Painter and The Artist magazine.

Liz has more than twelve years of publishing experience which began in Oxford at Oxford University Press and has since taken her to San Francisco, working as Senior Editor at No Starch Press, and back. She has honed her editorial skills over the years by working closely with authors to develop their ideas and drafts into successful books, including multiple international bestsellers. Liz has a degree in Creative Writing from UEA and likes thinking about the conceptual, bigger-picture aspects of story and character building, but also loves to get in deep with the words themselves.

With over 20 years of experience and insights in children’s publishing, Kate Johnson is CWLA’s senior sales agent and celebrity manager. She is an expert storyteller with ideas, imagination, and interaction as her superpowers. As our senior sales agent, Kate uses her expertise and insights to help our authors create bestsellers, such as Phil Heckles’s Rubbish Pet Portraits and Who’s a Clever Boy Then?.

David has worked in publishing for the past decade, establishing key relationships with some of the globe's largest publishers and content creators. David's knowledge and experience has helped to successfully deliver manuscripts for a range of industry leaders, including Pfizer, Tonies and The Mayo Clinic, as well as more traditional publishing houses such as Lerner, Beaming Books and Hachette. When asked what his favourite CWLA title was, David replied "I obviously love all the work we produce for our client's.... so it's an impossible choice - but the graphic novels we produce for The Mayo Clinic tick every box for me as they have that perfect balance of humour, education and fantastic art and design."

Mike brings more than 15 years of experience working in children's publishing, as well as a lifelong passion for literature and art. Mike graduated with a degree in illustration and has since been working with publishers worldwide, great and small, to help open up amazing worlds for young minds with visual language and powerful words. Being able to play a small part in that process is a true joy. He is passionate about all things books and is prone to buying more books than he’ll ever have time to read.

Flora is a Literary Agent based in Los Angeles. Her background includes work as an Art Director and Art Manager in entertainment for clients such as Warner Bros. Animation, Osmo, and US Bank. And work across projects in animation, R&D, live action, marketing, and publishing. Though she started out as a designer, Flora gravitates towards management roles where she works with authors and helps clients achieve their creative vision. Reach out to flora@carolinewakeman.com anytime to bring your project to life at Caroline Wakeman Literary Agency!

Jasmin Sadhwani is our Financial Controller here at CWLA. She started helping the team with royalties a few years ago, and her passion for number crunching has allowed her to grow into our Financial Controller. Jasmine is a pleasure to work with, as she has a calm nature and is always there to help. Outside of work, Jasmin loves to cook, bake, and spend time with her young son.

For more than 20 years, Caroline has worked to create award-winning children’s book content with many leading publishers across the world. Her ability to marry strong storylines from published authors, with amazing illustrations from professional artists, culminates in picture and chapter books that are full of the ideas that young minds crave. After all, great stories create passionate and independent readers. Caroline and her team at CWLA provide a one-to-one service, ensuring publishers and authors receive the time and dedication their projects deserve.

Milly has been working in the creative industries for nearly twenty years. During her degree in Costume Interpretation at Wimbledon School of Art she worked for the milliner, Philip Treacy. Post graduation she worked as PA to Dame Julia Peyton Jones at the Serpentine Gallery, followed by working for Damien Hirst for ten years, eventually heading up his studios across the UK and working on various projects around the world. She has subsequently worked as a Private EA and a Freelance Illustrator, securing projects with Derwent, Uniball, Waitrose Food magazine and Country Living magazine as well as writing articles for Leisure Painter and The Artist magazine.

Liz has more than twelve years of publishing experience which began in Oxford at Oxford University Press and has since taken her to San Francisco, working as Senior Editor at No Starch Press, and back. She has honed her editorial skills over the years by working closely with authors to develop their ideas and drafts into successful books, including multiple international bestsellers. Liz has a degree in Creative Writing from UEA and likes thinking about the conceptual, bigger-picture aspects of story and character building, but also loves to get in deep with the words themselves.

With over 20 years of experience and insights in children’s publishing, Kate Johnson is CWLA’s senior sales agent and celebrity manager. She is an expert storyteller with ideas, imagination, and interaction as her superpowers. As our senior sales agent, Kate uses her expertise and insights to help our authors create bestsellers, such as Phil Heckles’s Rubbish Pet Portraits and Who’s a Clever Boy Then?.

David has worked in publishing for the past decade, establishing key relationships with some of the globe's largest publishers and content creators. David's knowledge and experience has helped to successfully deliver manuscripts for a range of industry leaders, including Pfizer, Tonies and The Mayo Clinic, as well as more traditional publishing houses such as Lerner, Beaming Books and Hachette. When asked what his favourite CWLA title was, David replied "I obviously love all the work we produce for our client's.... so it's an impossible choice - but the graphic novels we produce for The Mayo Clinic tick every box for me as they have that perfect balance of humour, education and fantastic art and design."

Mike brings more than 15 years of experience working in children's publishing, as well as a lifelong passion for literature and art. Mike graduated with a degree in illustration and has since been working with publishers worldwide, great and small, to help open up amazing worlds for young minds with visual language and powerful words. Being able to play a small part in that process is a true joy. He is passionate about all things books and is prone to buying more books than he’ll ever have time to read.

Flora is a Literary Agent based in Los Angeles. Her background includes work as an Art Director and Art Manager in entertainment for clients such as Warner Bros. Animation, Osmo, and US Bank. And work across projects in animation, R&D, live action, marketing, and publishing. Though she started out as a designer, Flora gravitates towards management roles where she works with authors and helps clients achieve their creative vision. Reach out to flora@carolinewakeman.com anytime to bring your project to life at Caroline Wakeman Literary Agency!

Jasmin Sadhwani is our Financial Controller here at CWLA. She started helping the team with royalties a few years ago, and her passion for number crunching has allowed her to grow into our Financial Controller. Jasmine is a pleasure to work with, as she has a calm nature and is always there to help. Outside of work, Jasmin loves to cook, bake, and spend time with her young son.