Publishing Trends: A Writer’s Perspective
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘publishing trends.’ I wrote this piece on new adult lit and soon after attended a panel discussion organised…
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R.I.P. horror novelist James Herbert
An author who held a particularly special place in the hearts of those genre connoiseurs who came of age between the 70s and the dawn…
Couch to London Marathon – help us support Book Aid [BLOG]
It’s only a month to go. Gulp. In 33 days I’ll be running the London Marathon: the culmination of a stop-start, alcohol free, 4 months…
Today in Rowling: PS3 Pottermore, Casual Vacancy paperback
Though the combination of the two hasn’t always been well received in the past, Sony’s video gaming arm has announced its latest attempt at porting…
Win a pair of tickets to Oxford’s next BookMachine event!
Here at BookMachine we are passionate about what we do – BookMachine is fun, interesting, great for making connections, all about collaboration, cool, all-inclusive, informative,…
The Folio Prize launches, with first award due in March 2014
Way back in October of 2011, we posted news of The Literature Prize, a potential rival to the Booker whose creation was implicitly a reaction…
5 Questions for Charly Ford of Osprey Publishing, host of BookMachine Oxford [INTERVIEW]
Charly Ford is a Project Manager at Osprey Publishing and is hosting the BookMachine event in Oxford. Here, Charly shares her enthusiasm for publishing and…
Fifty Shades to get cash-in notebook accompaniment
It’s been a hot, awkwardly phrased minute since we last had anything worth reporting on the ol’ Fifty Shades of Grey front. Thankfully however, after…
4 quick Questions for Greg Ioannou of Iguana Books [INTERVIEW]
In the run up to BookMachine Toronto we caught up with Greg Ioannou who is a busy Publishing bod. Between all the various roles he…
Three Tips to Preparing for the Bookpocalypse
Last week’s IPG conference unearthed some strong criticisms of high street booksellers from Iain Dale. He slated WH Smith for their “marketing fee”, hit out…
Fond of history? A visual person? [KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN]
There’s a lot of hype in the press at the moment about Kickstarter, and how it can be used to raise money for authors looking…
World Book Day is happening RIGHT NOW
Today, as most people reading this will be aware, is World Book Day, the self-explanatory global celebration of reading with a particular focus on encouraging…
5 Questions for Ricardo Redisch of Grupo Editorial Nacional [INTERVIEW]
Ricardo Redisch kindly gave up some time to talk to me before the first BookMachine Toronto. Working as Executive Publisher at Grupo Editorial Nacional, one…
Questlove publishing memoir this summer
In perhaps the most welcome news of a musician having written a memoir since R. Kelly unleashed Soula Coasta: The Diary of Me upon the…
5 questions for Richard Sullivan, MD of Osprey Publishing [INTERVIEW]
In the run up to BookMachine Oxford, we’re compiling some interviews with publishing-type folk who will be going to the event. Richard Sullivan (who is…
