Top Tips for Attending Book Fairs
This is a guest post from Alex Hippisley-Cox. Alex is a freelance publicist and Head of PR for the Frankfurt Book Fair in the UK.…
Book Fairs Broadening Their Horizons
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. The last few years have certainly seen a rise in the importance…
Cargo publishing Social Bite Cookbook
Social Bite is, as the name suggests, a social enterprise: a chain of cafes selling soups and sandwiches, whose profits are given entirely to charitable…
On being a YA writer: Kerry Drewery interview
Head In A Book is a cycle of literature events in Hull scheduled throughout the year to maintain the momentum of the annual Humber Mouth…
Jam-packed report for internet-based business models
Dosdoce.com, a website renowned for analysing new technologies in the book world, have released a white paper outlining New business models for publishing houses, bookshops,…
#5MarketingTips – A Photo/Twitter blog from BookMachine London
To celebrate the launch of Alison Baverstock’s new edition of How to Market Books, Clare Somerville (Deputy MD of the Hachette’s Children’s Group) and Richard…
London Book Fair opens poetry competition
Next week’s London Book Fair is, for the first time, incorporating poetry, with its Poetry Pavilion space giving publishers of poetry a place to exhibit.…
Coder Generation: Building digital skills doesn’t have to be scary
The digital revolution might seem like a challenge to us now, but there’s a whole new generation of digital natives that will be coming into…
Public Speaking Tips for Authors: Interview with Nancy Buffington
This is a guest post from Stacy Ennis. Stacy is a book and magazine editor, writer, book coach, and speaker, as well as the author…
How to use consumer insight to improve book sales [INTERVIEW]
This is a guest post from Louise Vinter. Louise is Head of Consumer Insight at Penguin Random House UK, having previously held the role at…
Wodehouse Prize reveals 2015 shortlist
The shortlist has been unveiled for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, pitting three debuting novelists (all of them women, incidentally) against…
3 Lessons I learned from organising a publishing conference
This is a guest post from Serena Ugolini. Serena is currently a student of the MA Publishing at London College of Communication (University of the…
Shortlist revealed for 2015 Walter Scott Prize
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction – which, just over a month ago, made its longlist public for the first time – has unveiled…
On being an Editorial Assistant [part 3]
This is guest blog from Norah Myers. Norah works for an independent publisher in Toronto. Her job blends editorial with marketing; she helps support an…
Digital Marketing insights from Katie Sadler [HARPER COLLINS]
This is a guest interview with Katie Sadler. Katie is Senior Marketing Manager at Harper Collins and focuses on HarperVoyager (science fiction and fantasy) and…
