Writing Weekend – September 25 – 27, 2020
Writing Weekend Online Tutorials – September 25 – 27, 2020, Contact us for bookings >
Autumn Writing Weekend – September 25 – 27, 2020
Online Writing Weekend 25 – 27 September, 2020, Contact us for bookings >
Agent submissions
Agent Submissions The inside track on getting an agent Guest tutor: Nelle Andrew, agent at Rachel Mills Literary AgencyDate: Tuesday July 14Time: 11 am – 12.30 pmLocation: ZoomCost: £30BOOK NOW Nelle discusses the dos and don’ts of submitting to agents, how you can make your submission stand out from the pile, and what you should…
Highlights from our Zoom Q&A with Eve White Literary Agency
Mid lockdown and following the postponement of our May retreat and workshops we were delighted to offer 14 clients and BPA subscribers the chance to “meet” our literary agent friends Eve White and Ludo Cinelli and readers Aisha Bushby and Sarah Revivis-Smith from Eve White Literary Agency. As a gesture of thanks, all participants donated…
Ask an Agent: Hannah Weatherill from Northbank Talent
Hannah Weatherill is a literary agent at Northbank Talent. She is currently building her list of Fiction and Children’s clients and is keen to work with a twisty thriller, an emotional reading group or women’s fiction novel, or something entirely different. Can you describe your personal taste in fiction and also what you’re currently…
Announcing the winners of the First Novel Award
Kate McNair is the winner of the 2019 First Novel Award for The Price of Blood. She has been signed by agent Nelle Andrew.
Ask a Literary Agent: Rebecca Ritchie from AM Heath
Rebecca Ritchie is an agent at AM Heath, looking for contemporary women’s fiction, reading group, historical fiction and saga, through to police procedural, crime, thriller and psychological suspense. She is also interested in non-fiction topics such as cookery, travel, health and wellbeing. How did you become an agent? I initially thought I wanted to be…
Ask a Literary Agent: Laetitia Rutherford
Before I became an agent, I started out in Fiction Marketing at HarperCollins – a fantastic starter job, gained from applying to an ad in the Guardian (neither interning, nor nepotism involved!) After three years, I wanted to get closer to books but wasn’t sure how. With the scarcity of editorial jobs, and some uncertainty…
Congratulations Triona Campbell and Jayne Swinton
We had a successful end to 2017 with two clients signing with agents in the same week. Congratulations to Jayne Swinton and Triona Campbell, both of whom are on the road to publishing success. Sara worked with Jayne on two of her novels and it was while chatting to Rachel Mills at Furniss Lawton that…