Poetry featured heavily in new BBC arts slate
Less than a month ago, Robert Harris used his position as head of the Costa Book of the Year Award judging panel to rail against…
Why Americans Don’t Read Foreign Fiction [Discussion]
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. Before Christmas I wrote about some of the issues surrounding books in…
Monday musings: 3 things that make working in children’s publishing better
This is a guest post from Fiz Osborne. Fiz is Senior Editor on the Illustrated Publishing list at Bloomsbury Children’s Books, commissioning both authors and…
7 Steps To Growing and Maintaining Your Blog Readership
This is a guest blog post by Jaime Tung. Jaime is the author of Angloyankophile, an upbeat take on life as an American expat in…
Roca Editorial discuss ebook strategies [INTERVIEW]
This is an interview with Blanca Rosa Roca, speaker at BookMachine Barcelona on 26th February. Blanca (@RocaEditorial) is the founder and director of Roca Editorial,…
Tips for conference organisers from the IPG [SPONSORED]
This is a guest post from Charly Salvesen-Ford. Charly is Membership and Events Officer for the IPG (the Independent Publishers Guild). With a publishing background…
Romancing the Reader – Relationship advice from the Mills & Boon archive
This is a guest post from Judith Watts. Judith lectures on the Publishing Masters at Kingston University where she is Co-Director of Kingston University Press. She…
Longlists revealed for Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals
The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals – the prestigious prizes awarded annually by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) for, respectively, the…
Picking the right images for your book
This is a guest interview with Rebecca Swift, Director of Creative Planning at iStock (speaker at BookMachine Oxford during BookMachine Week) 1. What advice would…
Editorial Assistant [JOB OF THE WEEK]
We have an exciting opportunity for an Editorial Assistant to join a leading Education company on an initial 12-month contract. Based in lovely offices in…
On being an Editorial Assistant [part 1]
This is a guest post from Norah Myers. Norah studied publishing in London at City University and worked for Picador and Bloomsbury before returning to…
Time to bury the ISBN?
This is a guest post from Ricardo Fayet. Ricardo is an avid reader and startup enthusiast who has been studying the publishing industry with interest…
2015 Folio Prize shortlist revealed
The Folio Prize – open to English-language fiction of any genre, form or country of origin – has announced the shortlist for its second year.…
AI Authors: Who owns the rights to the future?
This is a guest post from Jasmin Kirkbride. Jasmin is a regular blogger for BookMachine and Editorial Assistant at Periscope Books (part of Garnet Publishing).…
Making Love: What the Mills & Boon archive reveals about publishing relationships
This is a guest post from Abigail Barclay, Managing Consultant at Inspired Selection. Abigail is recruiting for a range of roles in professional publishing as…
