One Big Book Launch – Winners announced
Nine of the ten places in One Big Book Launch 2015 have been announced, showcasing fantastic new titles from Walker Books, Sandstone Press, a variety…
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Richard & Judy Book Club to continue into 2019
The Richard & Judy Book Club is set to continue into its fifteenth year, with its namesakes having signed a contract that will keep it…
Marketing academic research: Kat Palmer interview
Kat Palmer is Content Marketing Executive at Emerald Group Publishing. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Kat about marketing in the publishing industry and the challenges of…
Imaginative Space: The role of the faceless model on fiction book covers
There is a growing tradition in book publishing to use faceless models on book covers. Tried and tested, models whose faces are hidden are good…
RSL announces 2015 Ondaatje Prize shortlist
The Royal Society of Literature has revealed the shortlist for this year’s Ondaatje Prize, awarded to writers of fiction, non-fiction or poetry resident in the…
Snapshots II – The Launch
Wednesday night saw the launch of BookMachine’s Shapshots II, the second compilation of some of the best blogs from the BookMachine archive. This time round, the…
Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, James Ellroy win Edgar awards
The Edgar awards – presented by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition of achievement in crime writing – has revealed its 2015 winners, with…
Creating Value in an Age of Disruption
In the run up to the Oxfordshire Publishing Group’s Annual conference on ‘Creating Value in an Age of Disruption’, here are some thoughts about recent…
Oxfordshire Publishing Group [CONFERENCE]
Put 23rd June in your diaries! That is the day that the Oxfordshire Publishing Group will be holding the first of what it hopes will…
Bloomsbury Book Club with Polly Samson [EVENT]
Polly Samson will discuss her lyrical, haunting and exquisite new novel, The Kindness, with Bloomsbury editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle at an intimate Bloomsbury Book Club event…
YUDU and Pearson ELT launch free Poptropica English® app
Multi-platform publisher and app developer YUDU has teamed with Pearson ELT (English Language Teaching) to launch a free app accompanying Pearson’s Poptropica English® range of…
5 Questions for Jeremy Trevathan, Publisher, Pan MacMillan
Jeremy Trevathan, Publisher, is responsible for the shape, direction and profitability of the adult publishing lists at Pan Macmillan in the UK. This includes Macmillan,…
Orwell Prize reveals 2015 shortlists
The Orwell Prize, presented annually to political books and journalism that come closest to realising George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’,…
A unique take on publishing: Sam Rennie interview
Sam Rennie founded Readership in 2014. Readership is a reader-generated publishing company where booklovers decide what is published. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Sam about the…
Announcing launch of Snapshots II [EVENT]
For the second year in a row, Publishing MA students at Kingston University have taken the best content from the BookMachine blog and used it…
