Donna Tartt wins Pulitzer for The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch, has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Pulitzer – one of the most prestigious prizes in American…
My London Book Fair Week #lbf14 [DIARY]
Monday The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014 shortlist was announced in style at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The party was…
BookMachine London with Kingston University – The Blook Launch [EVENT]
Evie is co-host of next month’s BookMachine London If a picture paints a thousand words then the next BookMachine event could be a very long…
The Guardian launches monthly prize for self-published books
The Guardian has teamed with publisher Legend Times to launch a monthly prize that aims to find the best from amongst the vast swathes of…
Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction Announces 2014 Shortlist
The Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction yesterday revealed its 2014 shortlist, exactly one month after the longlist was initially published. Those 20 titles have been…
London Book Fair says Fair-well to Earls Court
As many of you already know, this is the last time the Earls Court Exhibition Centre is hosting the London Book Fair (the LBF)! If…
Russell Brand rewriting fairy tales for Canongate
Though initially thought by some to be an April Fool’s prank, due to its appearance on YouTube on 1 April, a repost by Canongate’s YouTube…
Faber Social publishing Can biography in 2016
On the heels of the announcement that Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside would be taking over from Andrew Weatherall as its artist in residence, Faber Social…
BookMachine’s blook: the project and the process
So, you may have heard, BookMachine have teamed up with Kingston University Press to publish a collection of blog posts. It’s called Snapshots: Bookmachine on…
A new Youtube channel to demystify the publishing business
One of the things that constantly crops up when I talk to writers – and I talk to a lot of writers – is that…
Faber Social names Green Gartside as new artist in residence
Last March, Faber Social – Faber and Faber’s publishing and events arm – appointed storied producer and DJ Andrew Weatherall as its inaugural artist in…
Joining the dots in publishing: the story of BookMachine.me
Gavin, Laura and I started developing BookMachine.me in the winter of 2012. This was a period in my professional career when my startup Themeefy had…
Outrage grows as Ministry of Justice bans delivery of books to prisons
Anger is growing over Conservative Justice Secretary Chris Grayling’s decision to prevent prisoners from receiving books sent to prisons by family and friends. Under rules…
Pictures emerge of David Foster Wallace biopic you forgot was happening
Back in December, a couple of weeks before Christmas, news emerged that Jason Segel would star as the late David Foster Wallace – the revered…
Off the shelf and behind the cupboard…
If it wasn’t enough trying to write a book and/or getting it onto peoples bookshelves, now we’re being told how we might need to cull…
