One Big Book Launch for writers
This is a guest post by Simon Fairbanks. Simon’s first novel, The Sheriff, was released in March 2014. The following month, The Sheriff was chosen to participate…
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Spanish start-up interview: SeeBook
SeeBook is a new publishing start-up that enables e-books to be sold in brick-and-mortar stores, given away as gifts or signed by the author. Rosa…
BookMachine Week is underway, Twitter chat on Friday
You there! What week is it? No, silly little Dickensian orphan, Christmas was two months ago, this is BookMachine week. Between Monday 23 and Friday…
Newly discovered Dr. Seuss book to be published in July
In what has already been quite the month for new books from authors most thought we’d never hear from again, Random House has revealed that…
10 tips for better book designs
This is a guest post from Thomas Bohm. Thomas studied graphic communication, and now works for book publishers and businesses, whilst running User Design, Illustration…
An interview with Tim Pilcher ahead of BookMachine Brighton
This is a guest interview with Tim Pilcher. Tim has spent over 25 years working in comics and publishing at DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, Comics International,…
Poetry featured heavily in new BBC arts slate
Less than a month ago, Robert Harris used his position as head of the Costa Book of the Year Award judging panel to rail against…
Why Americans Don’t Read Foreign Fiction [Discussion]
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. Before Christmas I wrote about some of the issues surrounding books in…
Longlists revealed for Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals
The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals – the prestigious prizes awarded annually by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) for, respectively, the…
Editorial Assistant [JOB OF THE WEEK]
We have an exciting opportunity for an Editorial Assistant to join a leading Education company on an initial 12-month contract. Based in lovely offices in…
2015 Folio Prize shortlist revealed
The Folio Prize – open to English-language fiction of any genre, form or country of origin – has announced the shortlist for its second year.…
Questions raised – and rebutted – about new Harper Lee novel
As you’ve no doubt heard about, got tired of, called 2 Kill 2 Mockingbirds along with the rest of the internet then got tired of…
One Big Book Launch opens for submissions from emerging authors
Collaborative book launch initiative is back for another year It’s an important day today as submissions are now open to find outstanding authors for One Big…
Killer Reads reveals titles acquired from open submission
Last summer we reported that HarperCollins was to relaunch its Killer Reads online community as a digital-first crime and thriller list, and that its initial…
BookMachine meets Google Campus folks
BookMachine have been invited to join a discussion at Google Campus (London) on 9th February on disruption in the book publishing industry. The event is…
