HeyJaredThe Not-So-Secret Agents
Lifting the lid on the publishing industry, because open books are better than closed ones. Written by the expert team at The Blair Partnership literary agency.
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Does Your Book Have a Hook? (opens the original)
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A lot of my work involves pitching books. I travel the world, meeting with editors in different countries pitching our list, with the aim of finding the right publishers for the right books and getting our authors’ work translated as widely as possible. When I’m at a book fair, where meetings only last half an hour, this means getting across the key, standout element of several books very quickly. What makes this possible? When the book has a good hook!If you’re not sure what we mean when we tal
The Publishing Scoop: July '26 (opens the original)
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Can you believe it’s August already?! Today we are rounding up the top-line industry news from July, providing a bestsellers spotlight to help you get a feel for what’s working in the print market, and also highlighting a reflective piece on writing for all you future authors. We’ve also included any new writing competitions that we have spotted recently.Links will take you to the source of the news if you’d like to read more (some are behind paywalls).What We Talked About <a href="https://www.t
Harrogate Crime Festival for Beginners (opens the original)
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The Blair Partnership client Charlotte Essex looks back on her first visit to the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival as an unpublished author and says, even if you know no one, jump in and enjoy.I didn’t know much about Harrogate before I went, but I’d heard the hype. All I knew was that the people who had been, talked about it like they were in some kind of cult. And I quite like cults.Rewind to last year. I’d sent the first novel I’d ever written out on query and landed the agent of
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