Ann-Janine Murtagh Launches Tall House Creative

Ann-Janine Murtagh, former executive publisher at HarperCollins Children’s UK, has launched Tall House Creative, a London-based agency focusing on content development and literary representation. 

Tall House Creative will handle a broad range of clients and brands, offering content strategy and brand development alongside literary and global rights management. On launch, the agency is representing Lauren Child’s media rights; launching a new children’s character, Sheepdog Skye; and has a guidebook for female founders and entrepreneurs in the works.

Murtagh is joined by Zosia Knopp, most recently children’s rights director at Penguin Random House UK, as founding agent and global rights director; and Nicola Way, formerly marketing director at Harper Collins Children’s Books in the U.K., as founding agent and marketing and communications director. They will be joined by editor-at-large Kate Burns, formerly color publisher at HCCB in the U.K., and will work in association with Goldy Broad on art and design. 

Murtagh has also held senior editorial roles at Random House, Penguin, and Hachette, and she won an Emmy as one of the executive producers on The Tiger Who Came to Tea television adaptation.