Calling all BookMachine and Publishers Without Borders members!

Join us to chat, meet and mingle and chat at an online mixer event on Thursday 29th September, from 6-7pm BST / 5-6pm GMT / 1-2pm EST!

Gather on virtual networking platform, Wonder, for a fun, informal and sociable cameras-on mixer event. We will provide plenty of conversation starters to help you to get to know even more professionals across the publishing and creative industries, swap tips and share ideas.

Ahead of Frankfurt Book Fair in October, this is an ideal opportunity to meet publishing professionals from around the globe before we get together in-person at the Fair.

This is a free event for members of Publishers Without Borders and BookMachine only.

About Publishers Without Borders

Publishers Without Borders is a Facebook Group where publishing professionals can share ideas, problems and issues that concern our industry. As publishers, we can support each other in our endeavour to make it through this crazy times we are living. This is a space to do just that.

Accessing the mixer

An RSVP is required, so please drop your name and details to us by signing up above. Please let us know if you are a member of the PWB or BookMachine. We will share the private Wonder link to join the session via email to everyone on the attendee list ahead of the event.

Please contact Aimee on [email protected] if you are having difficulties receiving the link or accessing the session.

About Wonder

Wonder allows you to ‘move’ around the virtual room to meet different people and take part in lots of conversations – just as you might at an in-person event or conference. Guests move their avatars around with their mouse, joining a conversation by moving closer, and leaving it by moving away. Simple as that!

Wonder is not available on mobile devices or tablets just yet, so please join the session using your desktop or laptop internet browsers. Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browsers are supported.

To find out more about how to use Wonder, please check out Wonder’s FAQs here.

Why should you join us?

1. Catch up with friendly faces – Whether you’re craving real-life connections, it’s been a while since you last attended an event or you’re working remotely or solo within the industry.
2. Meet new people – Virtually ‘bump into’ interesting professionals who you might not have met otherwise.
3. Dip into different areas of publishing – Learn how people across various departments, publishers and nations are currently working and what is driving them day-to-day
4. Discuss big industry topics, or leave work behind – If you want to talk big industry news, there’s space for those conversations. However, if you want to leave business at the door and make human connections, you can join us for that too.