The Mission of Marion Lloyd: Insights and Inspiration from a Celebrated Children’s Publisher
This is a guest post from Margaret Eckel, who is a Publicity Assistant at Egmont Press. You can find her on Linkedin and Twitter. …
Terry Pratchett sets up no doubt whimsical media empire
Widely beloved man with a hat Terry Pratchett has announced the formation of his own fledgling multimedia empire, operating under the name Narrativia. Named for…
5 Questions for Peter McKay and Rachel Maund [INTERVIEW]
The Publishing Training Centre and Marketability are working together to promote training. Preliminary step towards takeover? Absolutely not, says…
Penguin sues authors for advances. Books are a business.
‘I don’t get up in the morning and say: Am I inspired? …No, I’m not. I won’t work. ‘cos, God, how often would I ever…
Your online presence: Reach, Trust and Discovery [PREVIEW]
We’re really chuffed that we’ve been invited to speak at the Galley Club this Wednesday. The Galley club is a social organisation for all involved…
5 questions for Rebecca Smart, CEO of Osprey Group [INTERVIEW]
The Osprey Group is an international publishing group with a digital success record that many larger publishers would envy. They publish under three brands: Osprey…
5 questions for Laura Vile about All That Matters [INTERVIEW]
Are you a bit of a know-it-all? Always impressing people with your expert opinions? Have no fear if your knowledge isn’t quite up to scratch…
Did you hear JK Rowling has a book out today? No, really!
In news that has gone so far from the definition of ‘news’ that it has circled back round upon itself to become newsworthy again, today…
Kevin Costner lands book deal, inevitable film
In a piece of news that we somehow missed in the whirlwind of prescient cats and Philip Roth-baiting that has been the past fortnight, none…
A Publisher’s Most Valuable Property: Their Website
The internet has changed a lot in the last ten years. Well, even in the last two. Maybe even in the last week. Ok, so…
Stephen King to publish Shining sequel featuring ‘prescient cat’
As has been promised/threatened for some time now, the distressingly prolific Stephen King has made official his plans to release Doctor Sleep, a sequel to his…
4 questions for Caroline Crofts, UK Rights Manager for HarperCollins [INTERVIEW]
With Amazon announcing in early September that they were looking at novel serialisation, we got to wondering what goes into getting the content to you,…
Cory Doctorow & Charlie Stross release novel for free download
As he has in the past, Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow yesterday posted his new novel – co-written with British sci-fi author Charlie Stross –…
Why I love the Man Booker Prize (and you should, too)
I try not to read the comments sections of a lot of websites because generally they are filled with postulating jerks who have glanced at…
6 Questions for Sophie Goldsworthy, Project Director, Oxford Scholarly Editions [INTERVIEW]
Five years ago Oxford University Press initiated a project to transform the way old texts could be accessed, read and re-purposed online. Oxford Scholarly Editions…
