What is an Inciting Incident? The inciting incident is a key component of almost every novel, but you may not be familiar with the term or even sure whether you’ve written one! James Scott Bell writes, ‘The power of your story is directly proportional to...
After impressing in the BPA First Novel Award 2020, Carole Hailey was highly commended in the Bridport Prize and signed with literary agent Marina de Pass. Her novel The Silence Project will be released by Corvus as a lead title in February 2023. We were delighted...
BPA client Roxy Dunn has signed with Cara Lee Simpson, literary agent at Peters, Fraser + Dunlop, after receiving editorial assistance from Fiona Mitchell and then Frances Merivale on her upmarket contemporary novel, Not Your Ending. Everyone at BPA was delighted to...
Non-Academic Classes As a writer who has completed both an undergraduate degree and a Master’s in creative writing, I think there is a lot of value in higher education for the aspiring novelist. A course will teach you technique, provide deadlines to help you...
Charlotte Seymour is a literary agent at Johnson & Alcock and was named a Bookseller Rising Star in 2021. Editorially focused and passionate about literature in translation, Charlotte is building a list of literary and book club fiction, crime/thriller, and...
