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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,…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
A day in the life of a Marketing Manager
Caoimhe O’Brien is Marketing Manager for Endeavour Press. Prior to this she was Endearvour’s Marketing Assistant, after working in the publicity and marketing department at Phaidon…
10 translating tips for beginners
Translating is not just what I do, it is also my passion. Deciphering a message and encoding it into another language is fun and exciting.…
Realities of publishing which I find hard to imagine
Lisa Davis is the Book Purchasing Manager at BookTrust, the UK’s largest reading charity that gifts books to over two million children, including books specially…