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It pays to work in independent publishing
Ahead of BookMachine’s event on pay and working conditions in publishing, the Independent Publishers Guild’s chief executive Bridget Shine looks at working life in the…
Your pay – your say: Gareth Lowe interview
Gareth Lowe is the Chair of Unite’s National Publishing and Media Branch and works as Publishing Programme Manager for DK, part of Penguin Random House. Gareth will…
Your pay – your say: Tania Hummel interview
Tania Hummel is an executive coach and board-level HR professional. She has worked in HR for almost 20 years and was most recently Global HR…
Inside freelancing: Anna Carter, Editorial
Anna Carter is an Associate of Just Content. An accomplished editor with over 16 years’ experience in educational publishing. Here Melody Dawes interviews her. 1)…
10 things I’ve learned from my MA Publishing degree
I have almost come to the end of my Masters degree in Publishing, and in seven months I have gained a great insight not only…
Get with the program: Why and how to start coding
You work in publishing, right? You think you’re creative? What do you spend most of your time at work doing? If you’re in a low-level…
How to negotiate a pay rise (if you’re a woman)
This is a guest post by blogger Maura Quint, and originally published by McSweeney’s. For an industry dominated by women, this is not quite as relevant to…
Leadership in creative industries: 10 things we learned at #Quantum16
Tracey Armstrong (President and CEO, Copyright Clearance Center), Harriet Minter (Editor, the Guardian’s Women in Leadership section), Shereen Kreideih (Publisher, Asala Publishers) and Robbie Steinhouse…
The top 5 skills an editor needs
Sam Humphreys is Associate Publisher at Mantle, Pan Macmillan’s newest fiction imprint. She has previously worked at Picador, Profile Books and Penguin and, before that,…
On being an assistant editor: Kate Ellis interview
Kate Ellis is Assistant Editor at Avon, HarperCollins’ commercial fiction arm. Before emigrating over the border to London, Kate had a crash course in publishing…
The top 5 skills a literary agent needs
This is a guest post by Rory Scarfe. Rory spent several years as a non-fiction publisher before becoming a literary agent, where he has worked with a…
#WorkInPublishing week: our best careers posts
It’s The Publisher Association’s #WorkInPublishing week. To join in on the action, we’ve collected together some of our best posts on Publishing skills, courses, freelancing…
Do you really need a degree to be in publishing?
Claire Maxwell works at Icon Books as their Publicity Manager. She has previously worked in journalism and bookselling, and she blogs at www.ithinkijustbloggedmyself.com. Here, at the age…
United, We Publish: a round up of Tuesday’s Unite workshop
Karina Maduro is an aspiring publisher, currently studying MA Publishing at UCL. Here she gives us the low down on Tuesday’s Unite event, United, We Publish.
