Diana Beaumont

Literary Agent

Status: OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

I am looking for:

FICTION
✓ High concept crime and thrillers
✓ Female-led commercial fiction
✓ Upmarket commercial fiction
✓ Contemporary stories about women’s lives
✓ Romantic fiction
✓ Under-represented voices
✓ Book club fiction
✓ Historical fiction with a fresh take
✓ Funny, smart romcoms
✓ Sagas
✓ Gothic novels
✓ Sweeping love stories


NON-FICTION
✓ Humour
✓ Memoirs
✓ Lifestyle
✓ Social justice / polemic
✓ Cookery

I am not looking for:

Horror / ghost stories
Short stories / novellas
SFF
YA / Children’s
Sport
True crime
Poetry
Screenplay

Please send your cover letter, first three chapters and a one-page synopsis, and ensure your chapters and synopsis are saved as Word Documents and sent as attachments.

For more information on how to submit, head to our submissions page

Email: db.submission@dhhliteraryagency.com

About Diana

Diana joined DHH Literary Agency in 2024.  She started agenting with Rupert Heath Literary Agency in 2011 before moving to UTA. Before that she was senior commissioning editor at Transworld.

​Diana was chosen as one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars of 2012, was a nominee for RNA Agent of the Year 2019, and was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2022 at the British Book Awards. Her list includes a wide range of bestselling and prize-winning authors in the UK and internationally.