Author Q&A with Jacquie Bloese

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Jacquie Bloese is a friend of the BPA family and worked with our editors Sara Sarre and Frances Merivale on her debut novel, The French House. We were delighted to hear that Jacquie has signed a two-book deal with Hodder & Stoughton and decided to ask her some...

Mothering Sunday by BPA Founder Sara James Published by Orion

Thursday, March 4, 2021

While founding bluepencilagency and editing manuscripts for budding writers, Sara Sarre was also working on her own debut novel, and we are delighted to share that Mothering Sunday by Sara James is out now. Harriet Bourton, publisher at Orion Fiction, picked...

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott: The Writer’s Palette

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Who better than Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, author of the masterful Swan Song, to chat to our BPA Long Writing Weekend crew about the writer’s palette? Kelleigh opened her session with a quote from writer Truman Capote, who inspired her fictionalised debut...

Alice Jolly: POV and Voice

Saturday, October 3, 2020

A significant proportion of the manuscripts that come through BPA contain fundamental issues with POV. It’s a huge part of writing a novel, but one we don’t like to think about too much because it’s not as exciting as other aspects of the craft. In...

2020 BPA First Novel Award Winners

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

  The BPA First Novel Award is open to unrepresented and unpublished authors for a novel in any adult fiction genre. We are thrilled to announce the winners of the First Novel Award 2020. Our judges this year were literary agents Caroline Wood and Carrie Plitt of...