Foyles hosting summer holiday activities across branches
Foyles has announced a series of children’s events taking place across its branches in London and Bristol throughout the school summer holidays, dubbing it the…
The Girl on the Train shatters sales records
Paula Hawkins’ novel The Girl on the Train has broken UK sales records this week, claiming its 20th consecutive week atop the hardback fiction bestseller…
Making publishing more personal…
This is a guest post from Alison Jones. Alison is a business and executive coach, content consultant and publisher. After a 23-year career in trade…
Being a full time writer: Catherine Johnson interview
Catherine Johnson has published 17 books and writes for Holby City too. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Catherine about her career so far, how she first…
How do you design the cover for the biggest book of the year?
Toby Hopkins of Getty Images talks to Glenn O’Neill, Deputy Art Director of Cornerstone publishing, a division within Penguin Random House, about his design for…
Amazon announces Prime Day for 15 July
As part of its continuing efforts to sign up shoppers to its premium Prime subscription service, Amazon has announced Prime Day, a ‘one day shopping…
To have or not to have a literary agent: an author’s perspective
This is a guest blog post from Lucy Beresford. Lucy is a writer, broadcaster and psychotherapist. She’s the Radio Shrink on BBC London 94.9 on…
Is this the Crisis of Non-Fiction?
This is a guest post from Alison Jones. Alison is a business and executive coach, content consultant and publisher. After a 23-year career in trade…
Writers & Artists launches 2016 yearbook with #istartedhere
Today (2 July) sees the launch of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2016, the latest instalment of the annual directory for writers, designers, illustrators and…
How to quit your job to blog for a living
This is a guest post from Monika Lee. Monika is a Senior Commissioning Editor at Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education, executive coach and published author.…
Working in book publishing and magazine publishing: Rosalind Moody interview
Rosalind Moody is Editorial Assistant at Colchester-based publishing company Aceville Publications. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Rosalind about her career so far, and the differences between…
Towing the Line: Banned books and YA fiction
The Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF), an arm of the American Library Association (ALA), recently released the list of the most banned books in the…
Mills & Boon teams with WHSmith and Kobo for competition
Doyenne of all romance publishers Mills & Boon has teamed with WHSmith and Kobo for Romance Writing Life, a competition that aims to find new…
Spanish start-up Interview: Roterbooks
Roterbooks is a cloud-based editing platform based in Spain. Roterbooks have kindly sponsored the past two BookMachine Barcelona events. Here we find out a little…
10 codes for QUICK FICTIONS [GIVEAWAY]
BookMachine have teamed up with Quick Fictions to give 10 readers a free code to access stories from the app. QUICK FICTIONS is a new…
