#MyGlobalTeam: Celebrate international colleagues in publishing
Join us and our friends at Publishers Without Borders online on Friday 28th August anytime between 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (BST) for a day…
Tag: rights
How do you know that your rights are alright: interview with Clare Painter
In the run up to next week’s event: How do you know that your rights are alright?, we interviewed Clare Painter, one of our expert…
Contracts? Show me the bit about advances and royalties and the rest isn’t worth reading!
Mara Livingstone-McPhail was a bookseller, reviewed books on BBC radio and organized book events in inner-city schools before being lured to London by the team…
Interview with Senior Rights Manager Sarah Harvey
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,…
Foreign Rights Intern, London [JOB POSTING]
Job Title: Foreign Rights Intern Job Location: London, UK Quarto is looking for a highly-organised individual interested in learning about Foreign Rights to join our…
Top 5 skills you need to survive a career in domestic rights
Jenna Brown is Rights Executive at Bloomsbury Publishing where she handles domestic rights. She’s also currently writing a young adult novel (all queries welcome!) 1) Organisation…
Translation Fund for Scottish writers – open for applications
The fund, administered by Publishing Scotland, is designed to encourage international publishers to translate works by Scottish writers. The new round for 2016/17 is now…
#LBF16: Britain’s Got Publishing Talent
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, on The London Book Fair 2016. Spring is in the air and…
On being a literary agent at book fairs: Ella Kahn interview
Ella Kahn is co-founder and literary agent at Diamond Kahn & Woods, where she represents a wide range of children’s and YA fiction, and adult…
Getting found in translation
In 2015 there was a much needed push for works in translation. In October Amazon announced it was making a $10m (£6.5m) investment in AmazonCrossing…
Seven tips for powering through permissions
After spending the past few months sourcing over 90 works of fiction, non-fiction and art for inclusion in Wellcome Collection’s new anthology, States of Mind:…
2016: A license to innovate
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, on rights and licensing in 2016. The advent of any New Year…
Publishers implanting technology both inside and outside their businesses
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, on technology, rights and licensing. October was, as expected, a busy month…
United, We Publish: a round up of Tuesday’s Unite workshop
Karina Maduro is an aspiring publisher, currently studying MA Publishing at UCL. Here she gives us the low down on Tuesday’s Unite event, United, We Publish.
How to attract and connect with international rights buyers
Gone are the days when entering a new territory would mean a publisher having to set up an office and staff there, or a perspective…
