Founded in 1974, Marjacq takes its name from the creative cooperation between Jacqui Lyons and George Markstein.  Jacqui became a literary agent in 1971 and George was a highly successful screenwriter, author and TV executive.

Marjacq’s small client base included the late R.D.Wingfield popular for his radio thrillers and his Inspector Frost books series, James Follett (‘Earthsearch’ saga among other popular works of sci-fi), Chris Boucher (‘Blake's 7’)  and, of course, George. 

When home computers appeared on the market, Jacqui decided to branch out into electronic authorship because of the new entertainment opportunities it offered.

Seeing and understanding the potential behind the work of many young developers, she was the first agent to ever represent computer programmers, a role she held for over 15 years.  Clients included Ian Bell and David Braben (‘Elite’), Frontier Developments (David’s own development team (Frontier Elite II), the Oliver Twins (founders of Blitz Interactive) and Chris Sawyer (‘RollerCoaster Tycoon’) among others. It could be said that Marjacq Micro successfully represented the finest and most creative software development teams in the UK and has struck many significant creative collaborations with the best US studios.

Marjacq Micro clients have worked on videogame projects with the best game publishers in the market (Microsoft, Atari, Sony, Sega, Activision, EA to name a few).

Marjacq Scripts, the literary side of the agency, has been developed by Philip Patterson (with the recent addition of Isabella Floris) and Luke Speed, responsible for film and TV.

Marjacq Scripts is now a vibrant book, film and television rights agency, representing a range of established and 'up and coming' authors, screenwriters, directors and graphic novelists. We also represent the publication, film, television and ancillary rights to some of the interactive titles handled by Marjacq Micro.

Having seen the exciting results coming from the most recent encounter between the gaming industry and the publishing industry, Marjacq Scripts is now representing software development teams in conjunctions with apps.

Jacqui Lyons remains director of Marjacq Scripts Ltd and Marjacq Micro as well as a partner in the Illustration Cupboard LLP