Direct Sales & Marketing Executive [JOB POSTING]
About the Job DIRECT SALES & MARKETING EXECUTIVE, SPCK & IVP, LONDON 9 month contract in the first instance SPCK/IVP is looking for a highly…
The editing and revision process for self-publishers
Lisa Poisso is an editor and works directly with authors, whether you plan to publish independently or submit to an agent or publisher. Lisa is a fiction…
How agents handle rejection: Juliet Pickering interview
Juliet Pickering is an agent at Blake Friedmann, representing a list of both fiction and non-fiction authors. Her interests range from literary to bookclub fiction,…
Metadata expert insights: Jane Rowland
Jane Rowland is the Operations Director of Troubador Publishing. Jane has worked in a variety of roles within the company, including Director of Academic Publishing,…
Savvy business snapshot: Bookspeed
Bookspeed specialise in building the perfect range of books and gifts for retailers. Lewis Dawson is Commercial Director and is responsible for all buying and…
From publishing to pioneer: Crystal Mahey-Morgan interview
Crystal Mahey-Morgan is Founder at OWN IT! Entertainment Limited. OWN IT! is a storytelling lifestyle brand, telling stories across books, music, fashion and film. At…
Will Brexit destroy the publishing industry?
Sarah Harvey is Senior Rights Manager at Pan Macmillan* where she sells translation rights around the world. She has previously worked in Rights at Hachette,…
Award-winning book blogs: Amber Kirk-ford interview
Amber Kirk-Ford is a 17 year old book blogger who aspires to work in journalism and/or publishing, and dreams of one day seeing her own work…
How important are ISBNs?
This is a guest post by Karina Luke. Karina was appointed as BIC’s Executive Director in February 2012 and has been instrumental in its restructure,…
Startup snapshot: One Third Stories
Alex Somervell is a foreign language aficionado and co-founder of One Third Stories. He grew up in Paraguay speaking English and Spanish, before moving to…
Nielsen ISBN store a hit
After nearly 50 years of promoting and selling ISBNs and prefixes to publishers in the UK & Ireland via a manual process, Nielsen has launched…
7 things your agent wants you to know
Thérèse Coen is Rights Agent at Hardman & Swainson Literary Agency. She handles translation rights for the agency’s clients in all foreign language territories, and is building…
Text Black, what it is and why you should no longer be using it
Being Upfront As every good production controller knows the cost of a print run is upfront. For illustrated books in particular, a major investment of time…
PRH #TheScheme16: Alex Harrison interview
Alex Harrison is a writer and editor with a keen interest in change and disruption in publishing and an insatiable passion for speculative fiction of…
Startup snapshot: Circular Software
Ken Jones is a publishing software expert with over ten years experience as Technical Production Manager, software trainer and developer at DK and Penguin Group UK.…
