Carole Blake has worked in publishing for 51 years. She started in a secretarial position and rose to become the first-ever Rights Manager for Michael Joseph. She was headhunted to start W H Allen’s first rights department, then approached to become Marketing Director of Sphere. After 14 years in publishing, she started her own literary agency which merged to become Blake Friedmann in 1983; Carole heads the book division. It was chosen as one of only twelve British agencies commended by the Society of Authors in their first survey of literary agents. Carole is a past President of the Association of Authors’ Agents, past Chairman of the Society of Bookmen, and she was Chairman of The Book Trade Charity (BTBS) for several years and is now President. She is a member of the advisory board for the post graduate publishing courses run by both City University and UCLA. Her book, From Pitch to Publication (Macmillan), is a bestseller now in its 12th UK printing. Carole’s clients include Elizabeth Chadwick, Anne de Courcy, Barbara Erskine, Ann Granger, Peter James, Beryl Matthews, Lawrence Norfolk, Joseph O’Connor, Sheila O’Flanagan, Tess Stimson, and Julian Stockwin. She was co-judge of the first HNS International Award, choosing Martin Sutton’s Lost Paradise as the worthy winner.
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