Ask an Agent: Maddalena Cavaciuti from David Higham Associates

Friday, May 3, 2024

Maddalena Cavaciuti joined David Higham Associates in 2017 as Junior Agent Assistant to Lizzy Kremer, now Managing Director. After two years of working with Lizzy on her author list, Maddalena became an Assistant Agent and began to take on her own clients. She was...

Ask an Agent: Olivia Maidment from Madeleine Milburn

Monday, October 9, 2023

Olivia Maidment joined the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency in 2020. Previously, she worked with award-winning authors and global literary brands during her time at The Blair Partnership and United Agents. As well as representing a list of literary, upmarket and book...

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...

Writing Advice with Mandy Robotham

Monday, March 11, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mandy Robotham is the author of “Breeder”, the story that was awarded the runner-up prize in the BPA First Novel Award Competition 2018. After completing a masters in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University, Mandy...