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About

Camilla is Managing Director and an agent at Darley Anderson, which she joined in 2007.

She was named a publishing Rising Star by The Bookseller in 2013 and shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year in 2022, and has built some of the fastest-growing commercial brands in the thriller market, with five of her authors selling over a million copies in the United Kingdom alone. Her list includes many Sunday Times, New York Times and number one ebook global bestsellers, with authors picked for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club and BBC Two's Between the Covers, five Richard & Judy Book Club picks, and titles adapted for BBC One, Channel 5 and Netflix. She works closely with her authors editorially and strategically, negotiating six and seven-figure deals in the United Kingdom and United States.

Looking for

  • mysteries
  • suspense
  • thrillers
  • crime
  • book club fiction
  • grounded speculative and epic high-concept stories
  • a new commercial crime series character with fresh expertise, whether a detective, medical examiner, private investigator, forensic investigator or cyber specialist, who makes the reader feel expert too, matched by a genius antagonist
  • a standout female protagonist to become a household name
  • an ensemble cast in a self-contained world such as the armed forces, built on loyalty, betrayal, love and friendship
  • thrillers, including those with a horror edge, that take a flawed character through a life-changing journey with epic twists
  • stories where the natural world is as much a character as the protagonist
  • entertaining fiction with real escapism

Not looking for

  • high fantasy

Clients include

  • B A Paris
  • Imran Mahmood
  • K. L. Slater
  • C M Ewan
  • Phoebe Morgan
  • Catherine Steadman
  • Gareth Halliday
  • T M Logan
  • Vicki Bradley
  • Callie Kazumi
  • Emma Kavanagh
  • Jason Dean
  • Tim Weaver
  • Hayley Doyle
  • LV Matthews

Agency submission guidelines

Submissions are made through the online form on the agency website, one agent at a time. Send a cover letter (a one-line elevator pitch, a short blurb, the genre and target market, and a short author biography with any writing prizes), a one-page synopsis, and the first three chapters, the first 10,000 words or the first fifty pages, as PDF or Word attachments. The agency specialises in commercial fiction: thrillers, crime, mystery, romance, romantasy, rom-com, book club and more. It does not accept screenplays, poetry, non-fiction, novellas or erotica, and children's, middle grade and young adult should go to the Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency. Submissions are not accepted by post, and receipt is not acknowledged. Let the agency know if another agency requests your full manuscript or offers representation.

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