Book-ish events in NYC in December
As the holiday season picks up, New York does not forget the gift of words. Check out these bookish December events. December 2: The Half…
New tech company Saundz enters the world of English Language Teaching (ELT)
Sophie O’Rourke has a keen interest in ELT developments. Here she speaks to Milena Jerkov Bibic at Saundz, a high-tech pronunciation software for language learners,…
Philip Jones to speak at final Galley Club event of year
The Galley Club – the not for profit London-based social organisation for those who work in publishing – holds its last event of the year…
Release date scheduled for new David Mitchell novel
Sceptre has announced that David Mitchell will publish his new novel on 4 September 2014. The Bone Clocks is Mitchell’s sixth novel, his first since…
Marketing your book on a budget
Most authors do not have a fortune to invest in book publicity, but you’ll still want to ensure that your book launch is given the…
Literacy research: Is writing cool? [VIEWPOINT]
Tom Chalmers is Managing Director at IPR License. Is writing cool? Actually is the word cool cool? What exactly is cool anyway? Well not writing,…
David Sedaris to tour England in 2014
Following another successful run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, ever-popular essayist David Sedaris has announced a 2014 tour of England with his show An Evening…
Hide your empty pint glasses: Irvine Welsh revives Begbie
Once again firmly in the zeitgeist following the huge success of Filth, the cinematic adaptation of his 1998 novel of the same name, Irvine Welsh…
From Jeffbots to editorbots
This is a guest post from Piers Blofeld. Piers is an Agent at Sheil Land Associates where he represents both fiction and non-fiction clients. He…
Wimpy Kid pushes Alex Ferguson down
Alex Ferguson’s record-breaking memoir has had its tenure at the top of the bestseller list ended by the latest entry in Jeff Kinney’s ever popular…
Stop building communities. Join one instead.
Gareth Cuddy is CEO of ePubDirect, known as one of the leading experts on eBooks and Digital Publishing in the UK and Ireland. We are…
ValoBox and Constable & Robinson launch Gift an eBook
One of the more common complaints of those who have held out against eBooks thus far is the comparative difficulty (and subsequent lack of charm)…
Amazon bringing Kindle to US indies
Following on from last year’s unexpected partnership with Waterstones that saw Kindles sold in the chain’s brick and mortar stores, Amazon has now announced that…
Amazon starts literary journal for Kindles
Continuing its ongoing efforts to have a finger in every single literary pie that’s going, Amazon has now realised that it hasn’t as yet made…
Alex Ferguson destroys sales records with steely glare/book
Just as shy, sensitive souls the nation over were enjoying their moment in the sun following the sales triumph of Morrissey’s Autobiography last week, here…
