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    Career progression: Interview with Alexa von Hirschberg

    Alexa von Hirschberg is a Senior Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. Norah Myers interviews her here. 

    Norah Myers October 11, 2017

    Career progression: Interview with Publisher Jeremy Trevathan

    Jeremy Trevathan is the Publisher at Pan Macmillan in the UK, responsible for the adult division, which publishes authors as diverse as Ken Follett, Jeffrey…

    BookMachine Staff September 30, 2017

    Get Into Book Publishing

    I recently attended Get Into Book Publishing, an accessible, tutorial-led course at University College London. The four-day event, attended by around seventy delegates, was organised…

    Eleanor Smith September 25, 2017

    Want to win a book industry award?

    Winning awards won’t make you rich, and it may not help you sell books. But It will spruce up your CV, massage your ego immensely,…

    BookMachine September 5, 2017
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    Interview with Francesca Main, Publishing Director at Picador

    Francesca Main is Publishing Director at Picador, where her authors include Jessie Burton, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Emma Flint, Mark Watson and Adam Kay. She was named…

    Norah Myers July 28, 2017

    Dealing with change at work: Tony Burke interview

    On 19th July, over 100 publishers will meet at St Bride Foundation off Fleet Street to discuss how to deal with change at work. One…

    BookMachine June 25, 2017
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    Want to know more about book publishing? Ask an Agony Aunt/Uncle

    In August 2016 BookMachine invited a group of publishing-savvy professionals to join its editorial board. This, in short, means that it’s not just the 3…

    Laura Summers May 28, 2017

    Why professional ghostwriters don’t work for peanuts [winning blog idea February]

    Each month BookMachine offers a community member, with great ideas, the chance to write on the site. February’s winner was Emma Murray, who wrote for…

    Emma Murray March 12, 2017

    The making of a unicorn (aka the ideal freelancer)

    On Wednesday 15th February, Kathryn Munt, Astrid deRidder and Anna Faherty were in turns helpful, humorous and honest in their observations on outsourcing and freelancing. Astrid…

    Lyn Strutt February 16, 2017

    It seems that there’s not a publishing skills shortage at all

    Peter McKay is Chief Executive of the Publishing Training Centre. He joined the PTC in 2011 after 34 years in educational, scholarly and professional publishing.…

    Peter McKay February 3, 2017

    Print Futures Award of £1,500 available

    Print Futures, a Printing Charity Initiative, has a number of grants open to UK residents aged 18-30 years old. If you are intending to study…

    BookMachine February 2, 2017

    Interview with Rebecca Lewis-Oakes, winner of last year’s Kim Scott Walwyn Prize

    Rebecca Lewis-Oakes is the 2015 winner of the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize. She is currently Managing Editor for Fiction at Egmont UK and has been…

    BookMachine Staff February 1, 2017

    5 lessons from a publishing life

    Andrew Hayward is MD of Ether Books, and has previously worked at The Lutterworth Press, Penguin, Pearson, Constable & Robinson and Summersdale Publishers. About eighteen…

    Andy Hayward January 31, 2017
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    Interview with Senior Rights Manager Sarah Harvey

    Sarah Harvey is Senior Rights Manager at Pan Macmillan where she sells translation rights around the world. She has previously worked in Rights at Hachette,…

    Norah Myers January 30, 2017
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    BA Writing and Publishing: Indulge your passion for words

    Let’s start a campaign. A campaign to bring back a word than no one uses any more. Sorglufu: the Old English word that means ‘amorous…

    Alistair Hodge January 18, 2017
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