Winner of Eyewear’s inaugural Melita Hume Poetry Prize announced
The inaugural year for both the Melita Hume Poetry Prize and its organisers, the recently-founded London-based outfit Eyewear Publishing, has seen the first award go…
ELT Teachers can become authors [INTERVIEW]
Continuing with the theme from my last post for BookMachine on interesting English Language Teaching (ELT) Publishing start-ups, I interviewed Karen Spiller, freelance ELT project…
Summer reading scheme is Olympics of the mind, say sport-fearing kids
Providing, as ever, a safe haven for the assorted freaks and geeks left feeling ostracised by this summer’s patriotically charged displays of physical activity and…
Seven Figure Book Deal Proves Talent Beats Data
While the government is busy telling us to tighten our belts and make our own sandwiches, publishers are honey-badgering these times of austerity and whipping out…
Hunger Games adaptation turns from trilogy into tetralogy
In a bid to reclaim attention from certain other trilogies that, sure, are getting all the attention just now because they’re ostensibly more ‘adult’, even…
BookMachine London – 26th July [EVENT]
BookMachine London Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 6:30 PM Porter’s Basement Bar (The Green Man), 383 Euston Rd, NW1 3AU, London BookMachine…
Peter Hook to continue to remind everyone he was in Joy Division with memoir
In further news of musicians releasing memoirs whose claims to revealing ‘the truth’ should be greeted with a raised eyebrow and reminders that several people…
The Inimitable Success of the Self-Published
There are quite a few authors around the world who have sold a lot of books on their own when they didn’t with publishers, and…
Four Great Things about the Pop Up Festival of Stories [REPORT]
This is a guest post from Margaret Eckel, who is a freelance PR Co-ordinator. You can find her on Linkedin and Twitter. This past weekend…
Mills & Boon empower women everywhere with digital erotica relaunch
In our latest instalment of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey, A-Hur-Hur-Hur’: venerable pensioner stimulators Mills & Boon have relaunched 12 backlist short stories on their digital-only…
Social Media Marketing for Publishers Workshop [REPORT]
This is a guest post from Annette Rusling, who is Editorial Assistant for Caterpillar books. Excitedly navigating her way through the world of children’s book…
Story time for digital publishers
This a guest post from Simon Appleby, who runs Bookswarm, a digital agency specialising in delivering projects for authors, agents and publishers. Simon has 15 years’ experience of…
Dan Brown settles into permanent, rightful home at Oxfam
Whilst the other records he’s set gradually fall by the wayside, Da Vinci Code pedlar Dan Brown can at least be proud of his continued claim…
Cover Design: When Change is a Good Thing
True story: there are some really, absolutely, unquestionably terrible book covers in the world – ones that make you want to approach bookshelves with a…
Harper Collins shifts loads of cut-price Cox
In further news of multi-hyphenate musicians bringing out things that could technically be described as books, The Guardian has word of instructive sales stats for…
