Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Saloni Surah worked closely with Blue Pencil Agency’s head editor and founder Sara Sarre on an Early Reader book Flora Investigates: The Case Of The Missing Gold Eggs which she has recently self-published. We were curious about her self-publishing journey – an...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Ahead of the publication of The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything on Feb 28 in the US and March 16 in the UK, we interviewed debut author Kara Gnodde in conversation with her BPA mentor Sara Sarre. Find out where Kara found the initial inspiration for the novel, how...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Santanu Bhattacharya was longlisted for the BPA First Novel Award 2020 and we’ve enjoyed staying in touch with him ever since. BPA’s Emma Haynes approached a number of agents on his behalf but in the end we were delighted to hear he had signed with Jessica...
Monday, December 12, 2022
Karen Pierce won second place in the BPA First Novel Award 2022 after impressing the judges with her historical coming-of-age novel, Petal. She has since signed with literary agent Katie Fulford. We decided to ask her some questions about the novel and her journey to...