Balancing Act: Keeping publishing’s polarities in check
Publishing is an industry that operates between polarities, constantly engaging a series of balancing acts that define the kinds of books we sell and the…
Commissioning
On being an editor and publicist: Sam Eades interview
Sam Eades spent eight years as a publicist working for Transworld, Headline and Pan Macmillan on authors including Neil Gaiman, Judy Blume, Jessie Burton and…
On being a literary agent and freelance editor: Julie Crisp interview
Julie Crisp is a literary agent, freelance editor and script doctor after having most recently been an editorial director for fiction at Pan Macmillan UK…
All About Comics – A photo/twitter blog
On Tuesday night, Tim Pilcher treated a packed room at the Phoenix Artist Club to an entertaining talk on comic books. Currently working as Humanoids’…
Why you should never judge a comic book by its cover
Childish, too niche, corrupting our youth – the criticism against comic books has taken on many forms. But despite this, comic books are one of…
Authorship versus content representation: What’s the way forward for equality?
Just over a week ago, author Kamila Shamsie spoke out publically, including in The Guardian and The Bookseller, proposing that 2018 should become the Year…
5 Questions for Jeremy Trevathan, Publisher, Pan MacMillan
Jeremy Trevathan, Publisher, is responsible for the shape, direction and profitability of the adult publishing lists at Pan Macmillan in the UK. This includes Macmillan,…
5 Top tips to max your backlist
Leila Dewji, publishing entrepreneur, has launched I_AM Self-Publishing, which produces beautiful books and eBooks for self-publishing authors, agents, and media companies, and gives them the…
3 Questions every Commissioning Editor should ask
This is a guest post from Melody Dawes. Melody has over 15 years of education publishing experience. She has a successful background in content acquisition…
Romancing the Reader – Relationship advice from the Mills & Boon archive
This is a guest post from Judith Watts. Judith lectures on the Publishing Masters at Kingston University where she is Co-Director of Kingston University Press. She…
Amazon launches ‘reader powered publishing’ with Kindle Scout
Amazon has launched what it describes as ‘reader powered publishing’ in the form of Kindle Scout, a crowdsourcing initiative to find unpublished authors and, uh,…
Finding gold in the backlist
Many will know I have an unashamed love for Haruki Murakami. So when I heard that his debut work, which is almost impossible to find…
BookMachine’s blook: the project and the process
So, you may have heard, BookMachine have teamed up with Kingston University Press to publish a collection of blog posts. It’s called Snapshots: Bookmachine on…
What impact has social media had on marketing & product development?
I’ve been really fascinated to start to see the impact social media has been having on the marketing and product development teams of Publishing houses.…
Stop building communities. Join one instead.
Gareth Cuddy is CEO of ePubDirect, known as one of the leading experts on eBooks and Digital Publishing in the UK and Ireland. We are…
