Unsung Heroes of Publishing 2017: Sam Perkins announced as a winner
Everyone likes to win an award – it spruces up your CV by showing that you are at the top of your profession, achieving more than the list of tasks on your job spec. It illustrates that others recognize your talents and think highly enough of you to nominate you. It’s like a great big pat on the back.
This is the second annual Unsung Heroes of Publishing list, celebrating talented publishing specialists working in-house or freelance. It was launched last year by Whitefox – the largest curated network of publishing skills and specialisms in the world.
BookMachine’s very own Sam Perkins, has been listed as a 2017 winner. Sam has been managing the BookMachine site since September 2015. She also oversees the annual publication of Snapshots, a collaborative publishing project with Kingston University Publishing MA students. Sam commissions new content on a weekly basis, and also makes sure that it is distributed throughout the industry. She does this week after week, tirelessly, on top of a full-time job at Sage Publications. She is most definitely our hero!
Other winners include Pete Adlington (Canongate), Helen Coyle (Freelance), Jo Forshaw (Harper Collins), Louise Harnby (Freelance), Laura Marchant (Freelance), Emma Paterson (Coleridge &White), Rebecca Ritchie (Curtis Brown), Jill Sawyer (Freelance), Rebecca Servadio (London Literary Scouting), Martin Toseland (Freelance), Mathieu Triay (Penguin), Gemma Wain (Freelance) and Annabel Wilson (Michael Joseph).
Congratulations to everyone on this year’s selection, and particularly to our Sam.