Suzanne Kavanagh (@sashers) is Director of Marketing and Membership Services at the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). She is a passionate advocate of collaboration and skills in the publishing industry; a perfect speaker for our Unplugged event on the 23^rd. We interviewed her to find out more:

1. What are the best examples of collaboration you’ve seen in publishing?

Two that spring to mind from companies I worked for are the launch of the Routledge Classics and reissue of a biography of Cardinal Ratzinger when he elected Pope Benedict by Continuum. Both were print product launches. They involved working with internal teams across sales, marketing, editorial, design and production. But they also drew in contacts from printers, typesetters, warehouse, wholesalers, key retailers and the press.

After the success of the first BookMachine Brighton event in February, we’re back – this time with sun, sea and prizes. Whilst we can’t guarantee the sun, you will have the opportunity to network with Brightonians, and Londoners who fancy a holiday, in the beach-side bar, Oh So Social.

Everyone who comes to the event will be entered into a prize draw to win one of a series of great prizes…

• 1^St Prize: A Kindle Fire
• 2^nd Prize: A selection of books from Brighton’s own Myriad Editions
• 3^rd Prize: A selection of ‘What Is?’ books from Brighton’s own Rotovision Books
• 4^th Prize: A selection of books from our Brighton-based sponsors, Indepenpress Publishing

February’s event ran in conjunction with Brighton’s Write-Club and was hosted by the wonderful Alice Reeves. Alice is back for more and after the success of the last event, I couldn’t not get involved.

We’re kicking off the evening with free drinks for the early-birds, so join us at 7pm on May 2^nd for what promises to be another great evening, rain or shine. Sign up now to avoid disappointment!

With thanks to our sponsors, Indepenpress Publishing Ltd: Quality traditional & self publishing in the heart of Brighton.

BookMachine Unplugged is back in London on 23^rd May. 4 speakers sharing their publishing experiences and an awesome crowd of publishing professionals – it’s an evening not to be missed! You can check out the photos from the last Unplugged event here.

As we prepare the finishing touches to the line-up and the event website, we wanted to give you the opportunity to get your name on the list early, whilst being in for a chance of winning a pair of free tickets.

It’s quick and easy to enter – just tell us the most interesting word you can think of.

We’ll pick the winner next Tuesday 16^th April, as we announce the speakers and the host and unveil the new site. We’ll also aim to use the winning word more in conversation!

Are you ready to win?

Thanks in advance to our event sponsors The Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), Bookswarm, Createselect and Spineless Classics

If BookMachine is “the most fun you can have with your clothes on”, the latest gathering had no problem in filling up the top-floor of Oxford’s House Bar on Wednesday night.

With a new, and untested, approach for BookMachine Oxford, organised by wunder-kind, Charly Ford of Osprey and sponsored by recruitment specialists, Atwood-Tate, the evening started with a short talk from Richard Sullivan, Managing Director of Osprey Publishing.

Enric Sagrera is the CEO at iBuksgrup, the first Spanish ebook aggregator. iBuksgrup are sponsoring our first Spanish event, BookMachine Barcelona and here, Enric talks a little bit about how they are helping publishers to distribute their content across a number of platforms.

Maria Cardona runs her own digital consultancy for publishers and will be hosting our first Spanish BookMachine event. Prior to setting up Mmcardona, she worked in both trade and educational publishing, and was also part of the core London Bookfair team. Here, Maria shares some of her thoughts and tells us why you should come along to BookMachine Barcelona.

Charly Ford is a Project Manager at Osprey Publishing and is hosting the BookMachine event in Oxford. Here, Charly shares her enthusiasm for publishing and tells us why you should come along and join the fun later this month.

In the run up to BookMachine Toronto we caught up with Greg Ioannou who is a busy Publishing bod. Between all the various roles he fulfills (Publisher at Iguana Books, President of Colborne Communications and President of the Editors’ Association of Canada), he does a lot of networking. So if you’re going to the first BookMachine Toronto, Greg will be propping up the buffet bar so do say hello!

Ricardo Redisch kindly gave up some time to talk to me before the first BookMachine Toronto. Working as Executive Publisher at Grupo Editorial Nacional, one of the biggest 3 Academic and Educational Publishers in Brazil, Ricardo is based in Toronto and has some really interesting insights into why publishers should be listening to their readers through social media…