Camille Burns
Solas Literary Agency
Submission Guidelines
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- QueryManager
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- Looking for
- Atmospheric, emotionally intense, relationship-led fiction, romance/romantasy, select thrillers/crime, historical with strong relationships, big-idea accessible non-fiction at intersection of science/society, not picture books/poetry/original screenplays
- How to submit
- Submit via Query Manager through the 'Submit Your Work' link at https://solasliterary.co.uk/submissions. Include a one-sentence elevator pitch capturing the book's central hook, the first five chapters, and a synopsis of 1–2 pages outlining the full plot including the ending.
- Response time
- Aims to reply to every submission
What They Represent
- Genres
- Middle Grade Fiction, YA Fiction, Adult Fiction, Non-Fiction
- Age categories
- Adult, YA, Middle Grade
- Location
- UK
What we found
Camille founded Solas Literary Agency in 2025 and operates as an agent working with Apple Tree Literary, combining an independent approach with the support of a full-service agency. Her background includes roles at David Higham Associates (as agent's assistant to Jane Gregory), Diamond Kahn and Woods Literary Agency, and a Felicity Bryan Agency internship, she holds an MSc in Publishing from Edinburgh Napier and an MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Clients include Rebecca Orwin, whose debut middle grade novel The Monsters at the End of the World was published by Puffin, and Sarah Beth Durst, whose YA cosy fantasy The Faraway Inn is forthcoming from First Ink or Macmillan Children's (UK) and Delacorte Press (US).
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