Author Q&A: Julia Kelly, 2021 First Novel Award Winner

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Julia Kelly won the BPA 2021 First Novel Award, coming first out of more than 1,000 entries. She then signed with that year’s competition judge, literary agent Hellie Ogden. In 2024, Julia signed a six-figure publishing deal with the publishing house Harvill...

BPA First Novel Award Winning THE ACCIDENT by Julia Stone is Out Now

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Julia Stone, winner of the BPA First Novel Award 2018, has released her second psychological suspense novel with Orion Dash. The Accident, which won the competition under the title My Poor Deluded Girl, is available now from Amazon, Bookshop.org and more.   ‘I...

BPA First Novel Award Winner Jules Lampshire Signs a Two-Book Deal with Orion Dash

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Jules Lampshire, winner of the BPA First Novel Award 2018, has signed a two-book deal with Orion Dash. She will be releasing her debut psychological suspense novel, provisionally titled The Therapy Game, this summer, using the pen name Julia Stone. Everyone at BPA was...

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...

Client Charley King Publishes Children’s Book with Beercott Books

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Mr Blinking by Charley King was published by Beercott Books on April 3rd and is available to purchase here. Charley worked with BPA editor Sara Sarre on a few drafts of Mr Blinking, her first children’s book, and the whole team at BPA is delighted that the book...