Ten lessons I’ve learned in ten years as a freelancer
Charlie Wilson is a freelance ghostwriter, book editor and proofreader, trading as Landmark Editorial. Her book How to Succeed as a Freelancer in Publishing, co-authored with Emma Murray,…
Copy-editing and proofreading
Blook your blog: How to turn your blog posts into a book
Turning blog posts into books (or blooks) is on the rise, with companies like Blurb even offering specific production and print services. But the style, format and…
PDF proofreading: essential first-step checks
There was a time when if a publisher commissioned me for a proofreading project I could expect a large, heavy parcel of paper to turn…
Does the book fit in your handbag? An Editor’s top tips
This is a guest post by Phoebe Morgan. Phoebe works as an Editor at Octopus Publishing Group across a range of non-fiction titles. She blogs about…
A misnomer: why successful self-publishing is the opposite of going it alone
This is a Guest Post by Phil Williams on how collaboration is key to successful self-publishing. Phil is a writer and English tutor based in…
Walking the tightrope: life as a freelancer
In the run up to, United, We Publish, BookMachine will be featuring a number of opinions on UNITE-focused topics such as training, pay, employment law…
Spanish start-up Interview: Roterbooks
Roterbooks is a cloud-based editing platform based in Spain. Roterbooks have kindly sponsored the past two BookMachine Barcelona events. Here we find out a little…
On blogging and publishing: Samantha March interview
Samantha March founded Marching Ink in 2011 and has personally published three novels since – Destined to Fail, The Green Ticket and A Questionable Friendship.…
How to become a better copywriter
This is a guest post from Andy Maslen. Andy is a copywriter by trade and Managing Director of Sunfish, a writing agency. He is the…
5 Tips from the Secret World of Editing
This is a guest post by Abbie Headon. Abbie joined Summersdale Publishers in 2010. In her role as Managing and Commissioning Editor she writes, edits…
Five ways for editors to work smarter in 2015
This is a guest post from John Pettigrew, CEO of FutureProofs. At the beginning of the year, we’re used to making resolutions – and failing…
Three things I learned that made working in publishing bearable
This is a guest post from Carl Pappenheim, owner of Spineless Classics about Working in Publishing Publishing is comfortably the most glamorous and educational industry…
On-screen proofing comes of age
This is a guest post from John Pettigrew, CEO of FutureProofs. At Futureproofs we’ve spent the past year creating a solution to a problem that…
Advance Editions puts final draft in readers’ hands
This week sees the launch of Advance Editions, a platform for crowdsourced editing allowing readers early access to soon-to-be-published books in the hope that they’ll…
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…
