Top 10 titles on work-life balance and productivity
I’m a productivity geek. I’m on a lifelong mission to tweak and improve how I do things. Each day is an experiment, mostly one that…
Introducing The Riff Raff: A new writers’ community
Amy Baker is a freelance writer and the author of travel humour memoir, “Miss-Adventures: A Tale of Ignoring Life Advice While Backpacking Around South America”.…
Freelance Marketing Manager [JOB POSTING]
BookMachine Works is looking for another freelance events and marketing person with tons of experience and lots of energy and ideas. You will be working…
Quarto launches Spanish language imprint
The Quarto group already sells books across 50 countries and in 39 languages. This week they expanded on this further, with the launch of Quarto Iberoamericana –…
BookMachine April Wrap: Publishing stories from around the web
This month in publishing news, there has been an unusual obsession with the smell of books. Not only did scientists pin-point that distinctive smell of…
Content marketing for publishers – top tips from a professional
There aren’t many people who can describe themselves as a professional content marketer, publisher and writer. These are three things very close to my heart,…
Tips & Tricks: Improving legibility of text on images
One of the fundamental things you can do either as a designer, or someone creating your own materials, is to understand how to get the…
Wear out your command key: Ten tips on using Photoshop and InDesign like the pros
Understanding Indesign Foundation Course – with Ken Jones 1st May 2019 | Digital Greenwich, London Sign up Learning how to use your Adobe software quickly…
New sales and marketing structure at The Quarto Group
Since 2016, The Quarto Group’s 48 imprints have been set to run as creatively independent businesses all supported and serviced by a global, central platform.…
5 years since launching whitefox: founder insight interview
In the run up to celebrating 5 years of whitefox at their birthday bash, we wanted to interview John Bond about his experience of setting…
Strength in numbers: Why bringing independent publishers together works
I once worked for a start-up in which, with the grand total of four years under my belt, I was the person with the most…
My Name is Leon chosen as this year’s KU Big Read for new students
Kingston University has chosen My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal as this year’s choice for their annual shared reading scheme which encourages all…
Behind the scenes at Blackwell’s: What publishers can learn from a bookselling icon
Last week I was lucky enough to receive a VIP behind-the-scenes tour of Blackwell’s flagship store in Broad Street, Oxford. The point of the exercise,…
Children’s language learning award
After a two year hiatus and high demand, independent children¹s publisher b small publishing has just re-launched the b small Young Language Learner of the…
Publisher-author clashes: How to deal with the most common areas of conflict
Working with authors has to be the best part of any commissioning editor’s job. At Open University Press, I have been lucky to work closely…
