What Can the US Teach the UK About Children’s Non-Fiction?
This is a guest post from Margaret Eckel, who is a freelance PR Co-ordinator. You can find her on Linkedin. Recently, I wrote a…
Tell us what you think, and enter our prize draw [SURVEY]
What do you think about BookMachine? We’ve been up and running for over 18 months now and would love to know. If you click here and spend…
In Brightest Gay: DC Comics outs Green Lantern
It’s a jarring moment when you first realise there aren’t any gay superheroes in the mainstream (i.e. an Avenger or some kind of -man with…
The Odd Couple: Bundling Print and Digital Books
Last week, after my observation that Waterstones is not in a better position to offer bundling now than it was last year, I had a…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week on BookMachine, we kicked things off with the The ABC of Waterstones: A Bookseller’s ‘Promised Land’ and 5 questions for Carolyn Jess Cooke,…
5 questions for Rebecca Swift of The Literary Consultancy [INTERVIEW]
Rebecca Swift is Director of The Literary Consultancy, which she co – founded in 1996. The TLC is first and foremost an editorial consultancy for writers…
This week in literary prizes: uh, all of them, apparently
Big week for literary prizewinners, particularly if you’re funny, a woman writing in English and/or a resident of the Commonwealth who’s done an especially good…
Today in tyrants: Hussein daughter seeks publisher for father’s memoirs
Between the re-publication of Mein Kampf and the revelation that Osama Bin Laden liked to keep up on his correspondence (which at least explains all…
5 questions for Carolyn Jess Cooke [INTERVIEW]
Carolyn Jess Cooke is the author of The Guardian Angel’s Journal, and her new novel The Boy Who Could See Demons has just been published. Congratulations are in order…
The ABC of Waterstones: A Bookseller’s ‘Promised Land’
It’s been a big week in the world of Waterstones. Last Monday, we had the shock announcement that they would be hand-selling Kindles – their…
Prospects for UK publishing: retail, eBooks and digital opportunities [REPORT]
9 am. Thursday morning. Portland Place, London. Publishing, bookshops, eReaders and academic publishing were all under the spotlight as the Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar…
2012 Fiction Uncovered titles announced
Fiction Uncovered creates the opportunity for eight British fiction writers to be part of a summer promotion supported by key retailers and independent bookstores across…
What we’ve learned from writers on CompletelyNovel – a ‘read-this first’ for self publishers
This is a guest post from Anna Lewis, who co-founded the book technology company CompletelyNovel with Oli Brooks in 2008. Since then, they have created…
It’s good to talk: How networking saved my book bacon
Jamie-Lee Nardone is Publicity Manager for Duckworth Publishers and is on Twitter: @JamieBookPR. She never turns down a glass of red or Ben’s cookie. Duckworth…
The literary critic: an endangered species?
This a guest post from Simon Appleby, who runs Bookswarm, a digital agency specialising in work for authors, agents and publishers – services including e-book…
