3 lessons writers can learn from the music industry
This is a guest blog from Christopher Russell, author of Mockstars, a music novel inspired by his international tour diaries for rock/pop band The Lightyears.…
Editorial
From copyediting and proofreading to commissioning, content creation and strategy, learn how to craft engaging and effective content for print and digital platforms.
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…
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…
Authors Need to Know Their Rights
When it comes to working in the rights and licensing field it’s not uncommon to be bombarded with questions, especially from indie and self-published authors.…
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…
The accessible author? Writing in the 21st Century
One of the things that has changed, in this new socially-enabled world we live in, is the accessibility of authors. This is not just about…
Seek permission before reproducing something
Tom Chalmers is Managing Director at IPR License. The writer Charles Caleb Colton once said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but in…
Fifty Shades of Backlist Fiction
This is a guest post from author Judith Summers, who is currently storming the Kindle charts with her book Dear Sister. I’ve been a No.5 …
Mind, Body, Pet and Other Genre Predictions
There are probably as many genres in the world as there are successful living writers. We all know about misery memoir, chick-lit, sick lit, paranormal…
Publishing Trends: A Writer’s Perspective
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘publishing trends.’ I wrote this piece on new adult lit and soon after attended a panel discussion organised…
Should We Publish New Adult Fiction for LGBT Readers?
This is a guest post from Margaret Eckel, who is Prizes & Awards Officer at Booktrust. You can find her on Linkedin and Twitter. If…
Is Re-Publishing a Self-Published Book a Good Idea?
In the last two years, a lot of publishers have been buying into self-published ebook successes in a big way. There’s the Amanda Hocking trilogy,…
