Ask an Agent: Samantha Brace from Peters Fraser + Dunlop

Ask an Agent: Samantha Brace from Peters Fraser + Dunlop

Monday, January 16, 2023

Sam Brace is an Agent building a list of crime and reading group fiction. Alongside working on her own list, Sam looks after podcasts for Peters Fraser + Dunlop. At PFD’s digital-first imprint Agora Books, Sam launched the Lost the Plot Writers Competition as...
2022 Pitch Prize Winners

2022 Pitch Prize Winners

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

We are delighted to reveal the winners of the BPA Pitch Prize 2022. The standard of submissions was incredibly high. Our judge, literary agent Hattie Grünewald, and the team at BPA felt honoured to read so many compelling stories and promising pitches, and it was...
Hooks, Openings & Pitches – Recording of a live event

Hooks, Openings & Pitches – Recording of a live event

Friday, December 2, 2022

It’s not only agents and editors who judge a book by the first page: readers do too. In an industry driven by pitches, hooks, blurbs and the first paragraph of Look Inside the Book, writers need to get to grips with how a potential reader would first encounter their...