Authors Need to Know Their Rights
When it comes to working in the rights and licensing field it’s not uncommon to be bombarded with questions, especially from indie and self-published authors.…
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Book of Iain Banks poetry to be published in 2015
When Iain Banks died of cancer last June at the cruelly young age of 59, it was widely assumed that The Quarry – the novel…
Hard Case Crime to publish Samuel Fuller’s “lost” novel
Since you’ve probably heard already about JK Rowling’s second novel as Robert Galbraith, allow us instead to draw your attention to a more long-awaited book…
The Author Earnings report: point/counterpoint
By now you’ve probably encountered self-published author Hugh Howey’s Author Earnings report – which debuted online yesterday – in some form or another, whether through…
Folio Prize announces its inaugural shortlist
It’s been a long time coming – we first reported on it back in 2011, when it was tentatively called The Literature Prize and being…
5 questions for Jacks Thomas, Director of The London Book Fair [INTERVIEW]
Jacks Thomas is the Director of The London Book Fair and she will be BookMachine London’s speaker on 27th February. I caught up with her…
5 questions for Matthew Cashmore [INTERVIEW]
Ahead of BookMachine Oxford on 27 February I posed five quick questions to our guest speaker Matthew Cashmore! 1. Which words would best descibe…
Details of Stephen King’s second novel of 2014 revealed
It may feel like Stephen King is never far from these pages, but there’s a simple reason for that: Stephen King is never far from…
BookMachine are getting physical
BookMachine are excited to announce the publication of their first book, Snapshots: BookMachine on digital, discoverability and collaboration. Snapshots is a collection of specially selected…
Radio 3 to air unfilmed Dylan Thomas screenplay adapting Robert Louis Stevenson
As part of its spring programming marking the centenary of the birth of the poet Dylan Thomas, BBC Radio 3 is set to air a…
Chuck Palahniuk gives more details about Fight Club sequel
Last summer brought news from Comic-Con, fittingly enough, that Chuck Palahniuk is planning to release a sequel to his widely adored 1996 debut novel Fight…
Amazon to start just sending you stuff and hoping you’ll buy it
When they inevitably make a Social Network-style movie about the rise of Amazon to full-blown Skynet omniscience, the equivalent of that film’s infamous ‘a million…
Shaking off the Bad Habits…
So it’s a new year. Time to shake off the bad habits i.e. ordering staff, family, friends to buy books to help them up the…
Roy Keane co-authoring memoir with Roddy Doyle
In news that is initially startling, then kind of begins to make sense the more you think about it, until you think about it for…
Gillian Anderson working on series of sci-fi novels
Actress Gillian Anderson has revealed that she is working on a series of sci-fi novels to be published by Simon & Schuster. A Vision of Fire,…
