Emma Darwin: Motivation and Inspiration

Monday, September 28, 2020

To kick off BPA’s first online writing weekend, novelist and tutor Emma Darwin shared her insights on staying motivated, silencing inner critics and listening to inner editors. She started by acknowledging that we all want more writing time but it’s not a...

Editing Your Novel: writing guru Emma Darwin’s top tips

Sunday, July 5, 2020

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...

Author Q&A with Ruby Speechley

Monday, May 4, 2020

EVERY LITTLE SECRET, the latest psychological thriller by Ruby Speechley, is out on Amazon Kindle now. Ruby worked on the story with BPA Editor Sara Sarre and published with Hera Books in April 2020. We asked her some questions about writing secrets and editing to...

Author Q&A with Charley King

Friday, April 3, 2020

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...

21 Rather Relevant Book Quotes to Carry us Through Lockdown

Saturday, March 28, 2020

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...