4 Questions for TLAC Printing and Publishing
This is an interview with Unambiguous Edit, and Miraz Manji and Andrew Weiner of TLAC Printing and Publishing. Both groups are hosts of a writing…
2014 Guardian First Book Award goes to Colin Barrett
Having already won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award earlier this year, Colin Barrett can now add another notch to his trophy cabinet after…
Publishing Training Courses in Oxford
This is a guest post from Donna Hutchinson. Donna is a recent graduate of Oxford Brookes’ MA Digital Publishing course. Since finishing the course, she…
2014 British Book Design and Production Awards presented
This year’s British Book Design and Production Awards – supported by the the British Printing Industries Federation and, as the name suggests, paying as much…
Faking it: When book reviews go bad
Jasmine Kirkbride is BookMachine’s new blogger and this is her first blog post. Jasmin is the Editorial Intern at Tenebris Books. She is a freelance…
Belle and Sebastian co-founder Stuart David writing YA novels
It takes a lot of effort to be a die-hard Belle and Sebastian fan, what with all the myriad side projects and new endeavours undertaken…
Let the YouGov profiler do your market research for you
If you’ve been on Twitter at any point since the weekend, chances are that you’ve come across the YouGov profiler, a jolly little plaything/terrifying cross-section…
FACT: Self-publishing is not all about fiction
This is a guest post from the team at CompletelyNovel, sponsors of BookMachine Brighton (photos here). There has been a lot of media attention on…
An exciting contest for writers [INTERVIEW]
This is an interview with Tahira Rahemtulla, a senior editor at Unambiguous Edit. Tahira is hosting a writing contest, That’s Write!, as a lead of…
Saltire Book of the Year announced
The Saltire Literary Awards – which recognise the best Scottish books of the year across literature, history, research and poetry, as well as debuting authors…
Global Right Licensing: The Bigger Picture [EVENT]
Organised by global rights and licensing platform IPR License, the inaugural Global Right Licensing:The Bigger Picture conference will see leading figures from a range of creative…
The Hunger Games coming to the stage because sure, why not
It’s already been a successful trilogy of books, a successful quartet of films and may yet be a theme park, so it is with a…
Creative Entrepreneurship in Oxford [COURSE]
In January 2014, sixteen publishers joined the ‘Publishing Fusion Workshop’ in Oxford. They had understood that to futureproof a career in publishing these days requires…
Netflix to produce Lemony Snicket series
Lemony Snicket’s popular series of macabre books for young people, A Series of Unfortunate Events, has already seen at least some of its titles adapted…
Tom Hanks inspired by typewriters to write book of short stories
Let’s try a little experiment here: I’m going to start off a sentence, then keep adding words to it, and see how you react to…
