SO, WHAT IS A SYNOPSIS? A synopsis is a functional document summarising the story of your novel. It usually fits on a single side of A4, but always check the agency/competition website for specific requirements. Third-person, present tense, reasonable font size… NAILING YOUR STRUCTURE We all love a good rhetorical question in a juicy…
Hannah Weatherill is a literary agent at Northbank Talent. She is currently building her list of Fiction and Children’s clients and is keen to work with a twisty thriller, an emotional reading group or women’s fiction novel, or something entirely different. Can you describe your personal taste in fiction and also what you’re currently…
MR BLINKING, the first children’s book written and illustrated by Charley King, is out on Amazon Kindle now. Charley worked on the story with BPA Editor Sara Sarre and self-published in March 2020. We asked her some questions about her editing journey and the decision to self-publish in E-book format. Your website charleykingcreative.com shares…
While literary agents prepare for an onslaught of pandemic themed submissions, we’re compiling quotes from bestselling novels that could have been written in direct response to 2020’s lockdown… “And she learned that you couldn’t stockpile anything that mattered, really. Feelings, people, songs, sex, fireworks: they existed only in time, and when it was over,…