Literary Agent Kimberly Cameron

Have I Got a Book for You!

Being a literary agent can be as difficult as being an author who is desperately hunting for an agent. Kimberly Cameron knows. She’s corralled books for MGM, been an agent, publisher and even a short-lived actress until she started her own successful literary agency in 2009 in California––Kimberly Cameron & Associates.

Books were in her blood, literally. He great grandfather, Rupert Hughes, wrote more than 50 and was one of the founders of what is now The Authors Guild. Cameron’s been a lover of books since she was a child.

The first book she sold to a publisher was a collection of short stories, a notoriously difficult sale. But, she says, she loved the voice of the author. Male of the Species by Alex Mindt, is about family relationships. One of the short stories won the Pushcart Prize, which shows Cameron’s discerning taste­­­­­­­­ and also her diligence and devotion to her clients.

“I must have tried more than 75 publishers over the years,” she says. Finally, she went to the Maui Writers Conference where she met an editor for Delphinium Books who told her they publish books others overlook.

“I exclaimed, have I got a book for you!”

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I’m Rick Pullen, former investigative reporter, magazine editor, and author of the best selling thriller Naked Ambition, its sequel Naked Truth, and a stand-alone thriller The Apprentice. I’m also a magazine columnist and feature writer. Currently, I’m working on another novel and a non-fiction book about many of the authors who appear in Idol Talk.

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