Originate Literary Agency (OLA) is a multi-media agency representing a diverse range of writers, creatives and original content creators making change through storytelling. Clients have included comedian, writer, actor, philanthropist and co-founder of Comic Relief, Sir Lenny Henry whose middle-grade series The Boy With Wings title for World Book Day 2023 was a number one bestseller and World Boxing Champion and Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist Amir Khan’s memoir published autumn 2023. Natalie has also worked with the actor David Harewood; his book Maybe I Don’t Belong Here, A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery was one of the Observer’s best memoirs of 2021 and shortlisted for a 2022 British Book Award; venture capitalist, entrepreneur and technology executive Eric Collins whose first book We Don’t Need Permission: How Black Business Can Change Our World (2022) was highly commended at the 2023 British Business Book Awards and Vanessa Kingori (OBE), Conde Nast Britain’s former Chief Business Officer and Publisher, her forthcoming leadership/business title The Otherhood will be published by Bluebird, Pan Macmillan UK and was sold in a pre-empt to Amistad, HarperCollins US.

Graduating with a degree in English from Sussex University which included an exchange programme to Rutgers University in the United States; Natalie Jerome has worked as a Publisher and Acquiring Editor for some of the UK’s most prominent publishing houses, including Penguin Random House, Pan Macmillan and HarperCollins. Natalie specialises in commercial Non-Fiction and commissioned and published books by a host of high-profile names and Sunday Times bestsellers, including the multi-million copyselling One Direction titles as well as books from George Best, Alan Carr, Chris Evans, JLS, Little Mix, Jermaine Jackson, Gillian Anderson, Alex Jones, James Corden & Ruth Jones, Gary Barlow and Rochelle Humes.  She made the move across to literary agenting in 2020, and in her first 12 months as an agent, she was shortlisted as Literary Agent of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards.

One of the few black Publishers in the UK, Natalie has worked to improve diversity within the industry. She is the former Deputy Chair of Literature Wales, and in November 2021, helped secure a £5m investment from the Welsh government for books for schools in Wales. She is a founding trustee and board member for Creative Access, a mentoring and graduate trainee scheme for black and minority ethnic candidates looking for paid internships across the media sector. In 2016, Natalie was highly commended for her work at the National Business in the Community Race Equality Awards.

She founded Originate Literary Agency in 2023, the first literary agency to open in Wales.