Get involved with BookMachine at The London Book Fair
BookMachine are huge Book Fair fans. Not only does the annual event allow us to meet our readers, members and clients in one place, but…
Why writing rules and outlining won’t squelch your creativity
Lisa Poisso is a fiction editor and book writing coach working with independent authors and new authors seeking representation. Lisa helps emerging authors tune their…
When royalty came to the Fair
It’s not everywhere that you get to follow in the footsteps of royalty. If you’re expecting to be standing on sore feet at London Book…
Tips for using InDesign and Photoshop at work: Vladimir Verano interview
Ahead of the upcoming training courses InDesign and Photoshop for publishers, BookMachine are running a series of interviews with industry professionals to understand how they…
The PTC’s Copywriting for Publishers
On a cold day in November, I was lucky to be the first person clicking on a button that said I want to win! Actually,…
Tips for using InDesign at work: Keara Donnachie interview
Ahead of the upcoming training course InDesign for publishers, BookMachine are running a series of interviews with industry professionals to understand how they use the…
10 Questions for Vitek Tracz, founder of F1000Research
Vitek Tracz is the founder of F1000Research, an open research publishing platform based on open and transparent peer review that offers immediate publication of an…
Virtuality – the visual trends of 2017
We don’t just see images these days, we experience them. Virtuality is just one of Getty Images’ 6 visual trends for 2017 – download the…
8 writers receive the phone call of a lifetime: Windham-Cambell Prizes announced
The director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale University made the call of a lifetime to eight unsuspecting writers this week, and informed them that…
Top 5 productivity books for writers
I’m a productivity nerd – nothing delights me more than a how-to guide on getting organised and getting things done. Over the years I’ve gathered…
7 steps for pricing your editorial work
Pricing editorial work comes up time and again in discussion between editors. Here’s an overview of the basic process of quoting for work, which can be…
Which digital book format has the most growth potential?
The answer might surprise you… Amazon’s Kindle format dominates the ebook market today and it’s easy to assume that will remain the case going forward.…
Write to the End of Your Novel: Interview with Anna Davis
Norah Myers recently interviewed Curtis Brown Creative’s Rufus Purdy about Curtis Brown Creative, the writing school led by the team at Curtis Brown. Here, she…
Typographic inspiration from Myfonts.com
As a design agency always looking for new ways of being creative and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible within editorial design we’re constantly looking outside of…
JVs and affiliates – better together
It’s a fact of life – of my life certainly, and I’m pretty sure yours too – that you can’t do everything on your own.…
