On being a VP and Senior Literary Agent and blogger: Carly Watters
Carly Watters is a VP and Senior Literary Agent at the P.S Literary Agency. Since joining the agency in 2010 and becoming a VP in…
Editorial
From copyediting and proofreading to commissioning, content creation and strategy, learn how to craft engaging and effective content for print and digital platforms.
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…
On being a Literary and Digital Consultant: Philippa Donovan interview
Philippa Donovan is an experienced Literary and Digital Consultant, who has been running Smart Quill Editorial for over 4 years. Here Norah Myers interviews Philipppa…
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 an Editorial Consultant: Cressida Downing interview
Cressida Downing has worked in bookselling and publishing for over twenty years. She started at Waterstones in Hampstead and then moved into publishing working at…
Bookmate competition to win 500,000 books
The problem today is that people have no time to read. We also spend more and more time on our phones for entertainment, news, emails,…
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…
Publishing Yourself
Lisa Edwards runs her own independent publishing consultancy, Redwood Tree Publishing. She has twenty years’ experience in the publishing industry, primarily in children’s books, where…
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…
On writing for children: Claire Barker interview
Claire Barker is author of the Knitbone Pepper series for children. The first book comes out on 1st August 2015 (Usborne Children’s Books). Here Stephanie…
Being a full time writer: Catherine Johnson interview
Catherine Johnson has published 17 books and writes for Holby City too. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Catherine about her career so far, how she first…
To have or not to have a literary agent: an author’s perspective
This is a guest blog post from Lucy Beresford. Lucy is a writer, broadcaster and psychotherapist. She’s the Radio Shrink on BBC London 94.9 on…
How to quit your job to blog for a living
This is a guest post from Monika Lee. Monika is a Senior Commissioning Editor at Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education, executive coach and published author.…
Working in book publishing and magazine publishing: Rosalind Moody interview
Rosalind Moody is Editorial Assistant at Colchester-based publishing company Aceville Publications. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Rosalind about her career so far, and the differences between…
