Editorial freelancers, know when to say no
We’re in the business of saying yes … but just as important can be knowing when to say no – some projects may just be…
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The importance of covers in commercial fiction
Phoebe Morgan is an editor at HarperCollins specialising in commercial crime, thrillers and women’s fiction. She is also an author and her first book, The…
Alchemy: Why poetry publishers need to get it together
In May this year, three wrestling matches were held in a library. Two small poetry publishers, Sidekick Books and The Emma Press, nominated their champions…
Why we should be publishing more children’s books in translation
Lisa Davis is the Book Purchasing Manager at BookTrust, the UK’s largest reading charity that gifts books to over two million children, and works on the…
Interview with WriteNow participant Nels Abbey
WriteNow, Penguin Random House UK’s programme to find, mentor and publish new writers currently under-represented on the nation’s bookshelves, is back for 2017.
5 reasons for the return of the novella
Jon Watt of indie publisher Type & Tell hails the return of the novella and the part authors have played in it.
Interview with WriteNow mentor Lydia Yadi
WriteNow, Penguin Random House UK’s programme to find, mentor and publish new writers currently under-represented on the nation’s bookshelves, is back for 2017. The world’s number-one…
How to secure publicity for potentially divisive books
January this year saw the launch of our new series of books on gender diversity. From first-person memoirs to children’s storybooks, many of these books…
Choosing the right outsourcing resource for your publishing projects
Maintaining quality publishing whilst outsourcing work to various third parties is a concern for every publisher. A good freelancer or packager will take this requirement…
What makes a good translator?
You’re in search of a translator – someone utterly reliable, preferably with a small spark of genius, to work on a manuscript (fiction or non-fiction),…
On being a Rising Star and Literary Agent: Ariella Feiner interview
Ariella Feiner started working at PFD in 2006 before moving to United Agents and is now nurturing her own client list which includes many bestselling,…
Contracts? Show me the bit about advances and royalties and the rest isn’t worth reading!
Mara Livingstone-McPhail was a bookseller, reviewed books on BBC radio and organized book events in inner-city schools before being lured to London by the team…
Interview with Sam Baker, co-founder of The Pool and Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 judge
Sam Baker has spent 20 years in magazine journalism, editing some of the UK’s biggest magazines, including Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Red. In 2015, she…
Interview with Alice Curry, winner of the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize
Alice Curry is the Founder and Publisher of Lantana Publishing, a London-based independent publishing company nominated for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of…
A beginner’s guide to negotiating publishing contracts
Contracts? They are the pages of scary legal stuff that someone else deals with, right?
