Diana Cheeseman
Diana Cheeseman is a literary agent based in London, UK. She was one of the founders of the agency Cheeseman, Follyfoot and Finch in 2004. The absence of any clients for either Follyfoot or Finch has led to persistent speculation that these were the names of her two cats at the time when she created the agency and were simply added to the name of the company for additional gravitas.
Since setting up as an agent, Cheeseman has gone from strength to strength, achieving her first seven-figure deal in 2014 for a series of police procedurals by Emmett Krill, whose career she had nurtured since his debut with A Bucket Full of Guts. Her most recent high-profile signing was the debut novelist Siobhan Aoife Cholmondeley, whose devastating psychological thriller Dare to Pronounce My Name was sold to Simon and Schuster for an undisclosed fee.
