Burn Rate (Novel) represented by Brettne Bloom and Sophie Cudd, The Book Group
Burn Rate is the story of Carter Cook, a disorganized founder whose startup has gone viral and unexpectedly bankrupt at the same time. As she follows a digital paper trail in search of the missing cash, it leads her to the only other person who could save the company—or sink it for good.
“I hope to raise questions about the validity of the power structure that surrounds the making of technology as it continues to influence our mental health and decision making.”
Campbell Walmsley is a former venture-backed startup founder from Atlanta, Georgia, working on her first novel. Her startup work has been featured in Time, The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine and the New York Post. Walmsley attended a writing residency at Rockvale Writer’s Colony and creative writing classes at NYU, Catapult, and the Writer’s Studio. She received a B.A. from Princeton in History and American Studies and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Campbell writes whenever she can get her children to play quietly without hurting each other.