Camille Burns
Diamond Kahn & Woods Literary Agency
My Manuscript Wish List®
I joined DKW in Spring 2023, and I am delighted to be building my own list of fantastic writers. I have always loved the ‘science’ of storytelling and am fascinated by the way in which the pieces of a story come together to form something in which readers can lose entire days and feel bereft finishing. As such, I particularly enjoy engaging with narratives on a structural level to draw out their best qualities (I also love interior design and believe my tendency to mentally rearrange the furniture in any room I walk in is not a million miles away).
As I’m in the early stages of building my list and refining my taste, I’m keen to see lots of variety and so I am hoping that my answers to the prompts on the right-hand side are helpful guides to what I am drawn to in terms of storytelling.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to https://QueryManager.com/Camille
To submit your work for consideration, please read about what I’m looking for and then follow the submission guidelines on my Query Tracker page here, unless accommodations due to disability are required, in which case please email me directly at camille@dkwlitagency.co.uk. I welcome and actively encourage submissions from authors of all backgrounds, including those currently under-represented in publishing. However, please note that while I am in the early stages of building my list, and in a bid to manage the volume of submissions, I am currently only accepting submissions from authors based in the UK and Ireland.
Vital Info
I’d like the next…
MG: Lockwood and Co by Jonathan Stroud, October, October by Katya Balen, The Last Bear by Hannah Gold, A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison, A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
YA: The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff, This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi, The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson, Hello Now by Jenny Valentine
Crossover/Adult: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Non-Fiction: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon, My Heart is My Own by John Guy, Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez.
My favorites include…
TV: The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, House, Lockwood and Co (the chemistry <3), Alex Rider, The Summer I Turned Pretty, One Tree Hill, The OC, Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, Criminal Minds, Mindhunter, Bridgerton, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Nashville, The West Wing, Modern Family, Ginny & Georgia, Outer Banks
Podcasts: The Ezra Klein Show, The Rest is Politics, A Podcast of One’s Own with Julia Gillard, The Daily (NYT), The Great Indoors, Today, Explained, Worklife with Adam Grant
Audiobooks: The Name of the Wind, The Passage, Pachinko, Mary Queen of Scots, Why We Sleep, The Mercies, Swan Song
Country Songs: Leaving New Orleans (Jordan Davis), Ghost in My Guitar (Alana Springsteen), Take Your Time (Sam Hunt), Wild Blue (Hunter Hayes)
