BookMachine Oxford March [REVIEW]
Jonathan Davis (Chandos Publishing), who you might have seen on Twitter as @canadiancat has written this comprehensive review of BookMachine Oxford with Richard Sullivan –…
Jim Carrey’s metaphysical children’s book is a thing now
‘It’s called How Roland Rolls, and if you wanna know about it, it’s at Roland, at howrolandrolls.com, and I’m gonna self-publish, ’cause that’s just the…
Production Programme Manager in Central London [JOB OF THE WEEK]
An international trade publisher in central London is looking for a Production Programme Manager to manage a team and develop the role of the production…
Kickstart Brian Blessed shouting for the children
Clearly familiar with the internet’s love of all things Brian Blessed, London music teacher Matt Parry has taken to Kickstarter in a bid to source…
5 Questions for Enric Sagrera of iBuksgrup, sponsors of BookMachine Barcelona [INTERVIEW]
Enric Sagrera is the CEO at iBuksgrup, the first Spanish ebook aggregator. iBuksgrup are sponsoring our first Spanish event, BookMachine Barcelona and here, Enric talks…
Mind, Body, Pet and Other Genre Predictions
There are probably as many genres in the world as there are successful living writers. We all know about misery memoir, chick-lit, sick lit, paranormal…
5 Questions for Maria Cardona, host of BookMachine Barcelona [INTERVIEW]
Maria Cardona runs her own digital consultancy for publishers and will be hosting our first Spanish BookMachine event. Prior to setting up Mmcardona, she worked…
Publishing Trends: A Writer’s Perspective
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘publishing trends.’ I wrote this piece on new adult lit and soon after attended a panel discussion organised…
R.I.P. horror novelist James Herbert
An author who held a particularly special place in the hearts of those genre connoiseurs who came of age between the 70s and the dawn…
Couch to London Marathon – help us support Book Aid [BLOG]
It’s only a month to go. Gulp. In 33 days I’ll be running the London Marathon: the culmination of a stop-start, alcohol free, 4 months…
Today in Rowling: PS3 Pottermore, Casual Vacancy paperback
Though the combination of the two hasn’t always been well received in the past, Sony’s video gaming arm has announced its latest attempt at porting…
Win a pair of tickets to Oxford’s next BookMachine event!
Here at BookMachine we are passionate about what we do – BookMachine is fun, interesting, great for making connections, all about collaboration, cool, all-inclusive, informative,…
The Folio Prize launches, with first award due in March 2014
Way back in October of 2011, we posted news of The Literature Prize, a potential rival to the Booker whose creation was implicitly a reaction…
5 Questions for Charly Ford of Osprey Publishing, host of BookMachine Oxford [INTERVIEW]
Charly Ford is a Project Manager at Osprey Publishing and is hosting the BookMachine event in Oxford. Here, Charly shares her enthusiasm for publishing and…
Fifty Shades to get cash-in notebook accompaniment
It’s been a hot, awkwardly phrased minute since we last had anything worth reporting on the ol’ Fifty Shades of Grey front. Thankfully however, after…
