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Authors
Chris Eubank Jr
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Chris Eubank Jr's autobiography will be developed by the JQ Agency and published in 2024. Working with Chris, we successfully ideated, pitched and sold a proposal to major publishing imprint HEADLINE. Rights were bought by Jonathan Taylor, commissioning editor of such bestselling sports authors as Lewis Hamilton, Mike Tyson and Ben Stokes.
Pulling no punches, and packed with never-before-told tales of life at home with the Eubanks, Chris's memoir will look back on a childhood in the limelight. It chronicles crushing losses in World Championship bouts, to blistering victories in front of raucous home crowds in sold-out arenas across the globe; from school shootings in Las Vegas, to the shocking loss of a loving brother. This is not just the tale of a boxer, but of a man coming of age under the most intense pressure.
At its heart, it is a memoir that charts the evolving connection of one of the most compelling father-son relationships in Britain, as well as revealing what really went on behind the scenes of one of the most explosive scandals in recent British boxing history: the collapse of the Eubank-Benn Legacy superfight.
Ana Diamond
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At the age of 19, Ana was taken hostage by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) when visiting Iran. She was falsely accused of espionage for MI6, CIA, and Mossad, and spent over 200 days in solitary confinement. Initially sentenced to death, she was subjected to numerous human rights violations throughout her detention, such as a mock execution and a forced virginity test. Since her release and return, she has been a vocal human rights advocate and a political commentator, particularly on matters concerning the West-Middle-East relations.
In September 2019, Ana co-founded an initiative that seeks to end state-sponsored hostage-taking practices. The initiative was launched on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, with the presence of journalists from news outlets such as the Washington Post and the NBC News.
To reflect on her journey, Ana participated in a New Writer's Competition organised by Penguin Random House imprint #Merky Books. Out of 1,200 submissions, she was one of four to be short-listed under the Non-Fiction category. She is currently working on her memoir about the lessons of exile and reconciliation, the reality of living and surviving death row in Iran, and the power of perseverance.
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Mark Schmelter
Mark was originally born in Cologne, Germany but grew up in many locations abroad with his hotelier parents. He has always had a strong passion for martial arts. Boxing was his first love in combat which led to him working at BOXRAW, a leading boxing sportswear brand, rising to Head of Paid Media before pursuing an MBA in Barcelona. He is a jiu-jitsu practitioner and his passion for martial arts and writing led to him founding his own blog that explores hidden and untold stories of the martial arts world. Initially created as “The Fight Mind”, it now exists as a Sub Stack account simply called “Fight Culture”.
Mark's first book will explore the origin and mysticism of wrestling in one of its cradles, Sudan. His aim? For the book to become the Born to Run of wrestling.
Nemat Sadat
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Nemat Sadat is the author of The Carpet Weaver, developmentally and creative copy-edited by the JQ Agency, before being published by Penguin Random House where it became a bestseller. He is a prominent activist and journalist currently based in Washington D.C. He is the first native from Afghanistan to have publicly come out as gay and campaign for LGBTQIA rights in Muslim communities worldwide. While teaching at the American University of Afghanistan, he secretly mobilized a gay movement off campus but was then persecuted by the Afghan authorities and deemed a national security threat for allegedly subverting Islam.
Sadat has been featured in Vogue, Grazia and major newspapers and magazines, and has previously worked at ABC News's Nightline, CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and the UN Chronicle. He has earned six university degrees, including graduate degrees from Harvard, Columbia, and Oxford. The Carpet Weaver is his first novel. He is currently at work on his second novel and his memoir.