Marina de Pass joined The Soho Agency after several years working in the editorial departments of Little, Brown and HarperCollins. She is currently building her list of Fiction clients. Marina also published her first YA novel The Year After You shortly after completing the Faber Academy. BPA’s own Emma and Sara taught a Faber Academy class…
I was delighted to attend Emma Darwin’s BPA workshop on ‘Editing your Novel’. Emma’s memoir This is not a book about Charles Darwin, an account of her struggle to write a historical novel based on her family, was described by the Daily Mail as ‘a masterclass’, which certainly made me curious to hear what she…
Blue Pencil Agency offers editorial reports to writers who want their manuscript to be in the best shape possible before they approach a literary agent or self-publish. Our editors are bestselling authors and industry experts with shrewd eyes and a passion for supporting upcoming writers. We asked Sara Sarre, Oliver James, J. David Simons, Saskia…
Mid lockdown and following the postponement of our May retreat and workshops we were delighted to offer 14 clients and BPA subscribers the chance to “meet” our literary agent friends Eve White and Ludo Cinelli and readers Aisha Bushby and Sarah Revivis-Smith from Eve White Literary Agency. As a gesture of thanks, all participants donated…
Iain Maloney is the author of three novels – The Waves Burn Bright, Silma Hill, and First Time Solo – and a haiku collection called Fractures. Iain is also one of our BPA editors. In anticipation of his latest work, a memoir entitled The Only Gaijin in the Village, we asked him a few questions about his experiences as an author. …
How and why did you get into writing? I’ve always wanted to write. When I was little, I used to entertain my younger brother and sister with made-up stories. Despite loving writing, I didn’t believe ‘author’ was a viable career choice. I knew I needed to earn a living, so I went into journalism. I…
A quick google search describes Saskia’s latest book, How It Ends, as ‘a sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of post-war Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost…’ I’ve never really been a fan of books set against the backdrop of war. It might…
Rebecca Ritchie is an agent at AM Heath, looking for contemporary women’s fiction, reading group, historical fiction and saga, through to police procedural, crime, thriller and psychological suspense. She is also interested in non-fiction topics such as cookery, travel, health and wellbeing. How did you become an agent? I initially thought I wanted to be…
Emma Curtis is the author of three brilliant psychological thrillers: One Little Mistake, When I Find You and The Night You Left. She is currently working on her fourth novel and in this week’s blog post we interviewed her about her writing process and any advice she had for querying writers. How did you…
When I saw that Oyinkan Braithwaite’s novel ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ had been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, I bought a copy immediately. I can’t remember the last time I bought a book without at least glancing at the synopsis, but the title alone was enough to persuade me. Braithwaite’s title…