Mindset: the shift from employment to self-employment
Laura Summers runs BookMachine, the fast-growing community and agency specialising in book publishing. Our mission is to provide every publishing professional in the UK knowledge,…
Strategy
The art of the anthology: interview with Monstrous Regiment Publishing
We first interviewed Lauren Nickodemus and Ellen Desmond of Monstrous Regiment Publishing two years ago about their use of crowdfunding to support their first book,…
Tips for managing virtual meetings and events
How do you make meaningful communication happen in virtual meetings? How can book launches and book fairs bring people together without the real-world behaviour which…
Can design thinking transform your publishing strategy?
Wednesday 13 November saw another packed house at the Century Club in London, for the last BookMachine Unplugged event of 2019. Hosted by BookMachine Editorial…
Season of pumpkins, ghosts and… books? How Orentober made autumn bookish again
Karen Sullivan is the founder of the independent publisher Orenda Books (and Orentober!). Karen moved to the UK from Canada at the age of 21 and worked…
What can publishing do about climate breakdown?
Many of us are taking steps to reduce our individual impact on the environment – but how is the publishing industry as a whole responding…
How to handle conversations that begin with “I have a good idea for a book”
Anne Trubek is the founder of Belt Publishing, a small press focused on quality non-fiction about the Rust Belt and Midwest. Her Notes from a Small…
Facebook Advertising: the small publisher’s secret weapon
Did you know the amount of time we spend on social media platforms each day has increased by a whopping 58% in the last 6…
Velocity Press: interview with founder Colin Steven
Whatever else 2019 is offering us, one thing is certain: this is a great era for small-but-powerful publishing startups. In this interview, we meet Colin…
Scholarly Publishing Through the Brexit Lens
However, whenever and possibly even if ever, those were questions confronting Parliament throughout the week of London Book Fair, as the United Kingdom moved ever…
Provoke, Predict and Play: The Bookseller FutureBook Conference 2018
Abbie Headon is Commissioning Editor at Prelude Books, and also writes and edits books as Abbie Headon Publishing Services. She is a 2018 Bookseller Rising Star and sits…
Content is still king: The first State of Media and Publishing in Digital meetup
Francesca Zunino Harper is a linguist, translator, and publishing professional. She worked in the British and international academia researching on comparative literatures, translation, and women’s and environmental…
Rebranding: more than just a publicity exercise
Emma Barnes taught herself to code after founding her own independent publisher, Snowbooks. She went on to build Bibliocloud, the next-generation publishing system. Now she’s on…