NaNoWriMo for publishing folk
This is a guest post by Bree Weber. Bree is a book designer and publishing consultant who loves Oxford commas. You can reach out to…
Dan Mooney wins £2,500 with Luke Bitmead Bursary Award
Aspiring author Dan Mooney has been announced as the winner of the Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary 2016 in an award ceremony in Central London on…
Coding for publishers: taster course
SYP member Jessica Ballance combines her work as a bookseller and manager of Daunt Books in North London with the role of associate editor at Dodo Ink, an independent…
Sales Boost: Your Book’s Business Plan
This is a guest post by Bree Weber. Bree is a book designer and publishing consultant who loves Oxford commas. You can reach out to…
New home for BookMachine
BookMachine has a new home. It’s a private members club in Covent Garden, aptly called ‘The Lib-rary’. The walls are adorned with bookcases and books.…
Digital publishing is now “fabric”, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy
This is a guest blog post by Steve Connolly, Publishing Director for FE and Digital at Hodder Education. This blog post first appeared on the…
Can social media make a difference for your authors?
This is a guest post by Alison Barrow. Alison is Director of Media Relations at Transworld. You can find her on Twitter @alisonbarrow. This blog…
5 Tips for starting out as an agent
Hattie Grunewald is an agent at Blake Friedmann agency. She assists Carole Blake, handles short fiction and permissions on behalf of Blake Friedmann clients, and…
5 skills a designer needs
This is a guest blog post by Jo Thomson. Jo is a Senior Designer at Pan Macmillan Publishers. Before working in publishing, Jo was a…
Join Neil Pearson for Book Aid International’s annual Literary Quiz
Calling all book lovers! Put your literary knowledge to the test at Book Aid International’s fiendish Literary Quiz Book Aid International is the UK’s leading…
The new hustle
This week in The Extraordinary Business Book Club I interviewed Patrick Vlaskovits, co-author of Hustle (with Jonas Koffler and Neil Patel) and The Lean Entrepreneur…
Fancy blogging for BookMachine?
We are always looking for industry professionals with something interesting to say. Around 11,000 people read BookMachine each month so if this is you, then…
Six gems about Marketing that may seem obvious, but are you really acting on them?
This is a guest post by Rachel Maund. Rachel is is Director of publishing consultancy Marketability (UK) Ltd and a tutor at the Publishing Training…
The Clear Path Forward for Self-Publishing
Only a couple of years ago, starting to write an article on self-publishing would mean wading through the pages and pages of pieces on self-publishing…
Marketing vs Design: Katie Roden interview
Katie Roden is a publishing, marketing and content strategist with 25 years’ industry experience. She is speaking at ‘Marketing vs Design, which matters more?’ on…
