2020 First Novel Award Longlist

Friday, July 17, 2020

We are delighted to announce the First Novel Award 2020 Longlist. This year’s judges are literary agents Caroline Wood and Carrie Plitt from Felicity Bryan Agency and best selling author, Anna Hope (Expectation, The Ballroom, Wake). Prizes for the winners...

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...

Editing your Novel

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

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How to Write a Synopsis

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

SO, WHAT IS A SYNOPSIS? A synopsis is a functional document summarising the story of your novel. It usually fits on a single side of A4, but always check the agency/competition website for specific requirements. Third-person, present tense, reasonable font size…...

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...