The future of Twitter in 2015: Panic stations?
Jasmine Kirkbride is BookMachine’s new blogger and this is her second blog post. Jasmin is the Editorial Intern at Tenebris Books. She is a freelance…
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New Bill & Ted story to be published as comic in 2015
Readers of a certain age will likely hold near bottomless affection for the time travelling escapades of San Dimas High School metalheads William S. Preston…
Book of poetry by PJ Harvey to be published in 2015
In a lateral career move that makes sense as completely as fellow cultishly adored musician John Darnielle’s transition to novelist earlier this year, PJ Harvey…
4 Questions for TLAC Printing and Publishing
This is an interview with Unambiguous Edit, and Miraz Manji and Andrew Weiner of TLAC Printing and Publishing. Both groups are hosts of a writing…
2014 Guardian First Book Award goes to Colin Barrett
Having already won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award earlier this year, Colin Barrett can now add another notch to his trophy cabinet after…
Publishing Training Courses in Oxford
This is a guest post from Donna Hutchinson. Donna is a recent graduate of Oxford Brookes’ MA Digital Publishing course. Since finishing the course, she…
2014 British Book Design and Production Awards presented
This year’s British Book Design and Production Awards – supported by the the British Printing Industries Federation and, as the name suggests, paying as much…
Faking it: When book reviews go bad
Jasmine Kirkbride is BookMachine’s new blogger and this is her first blog post. Jasmin is the Editorial Intern at Tenebris Books. She is a freelance…
Belle and Sebastian co-founder Stuart David writing YA novels
It takes a lot of effort to be a die-hard Belle and Sebastian fan, what with all the myriad side projects and new endeavours undertaken…
Let the YouGov profiler do your market research for you
If you’ve been on Twitter at any point since the weekend, chances are that you’ve come across the YouGov profiler, a jolly little plaything/terrifying cross-section…
An exciting contest for writers [INTERVIEW]
This is an interview with Tahira Rahemtulla, a senior editor at Unambiguous Edit. Tahira is hosting a writing contest, That’s Write!, as a lead of…
Saltire Book of the Year announced
The Saltire Literary Awards – which recognise the best Scottish books of the year across literature, history, research and poetry, as well as debuting authors…
Global Right Licensing: The Bigger Picture [EVENT]
Organised by global rights and licensing platform IPR License, the inaugural Global Right Licensing:The Bigger Picture conference will see leading figures from a range of creative…
The Hunger Games coming to the stage because sure, why not
It’s already been a successful trilogy of books, a successful quartet of films and may yet be a theme park, so it is with a…
Creative Entrepreneurship in Oxford [COURSE]
In January 2014, sixteen publishers joined the ‘Publishing Fusion Workshop’ in Oxford. They had understood that to futureproof a career in publishing these days requires…
