A Compendium of Linguistic Failure: Dictionaries Losing It
One of the most horrific things I heard at university was linguistics tutor spouting the idea that we need to embrace changes to our language…
Editorial
From copyediting and proofreading to commissioning, content creation and strategy, learn how to craft engaging and effective content for print and digital platforms.
5 Questions for Marisa A. Corvisiero [INTERVIEW]
In the run up to BookMachine New York, we’re running a set of interviews with publishing professionals connected to the City, with an interesting story…
5 Questions for Amy Rosenbaum [INTERVIEW]
In the run up to BookMachine New York, we’re running a set of interviews with publishing professionals connected to the City, with an interesting story…
5 Questions for Stacy Abrams [INTERVIEW]
In the run up to BookMachine New York, we’re running a set of interviews with publishing professionals connected to the City, with an interesting story…
The Write Lines: How to build a career and profile as a writer [PODCAST]
Sue Cook talks to Julie Cohen (novelist, tutor), Sue Moorcroft (novelist, short story writer, tutor) and Nicola Morgan (fiction for children/YA and non-fiction for adults,…
Claims arise of deletion of words from OED
Everyone has certain words that they wish could just be erased from the collective vocabulary. If you’d asked me at any point from the early…
The Write Lines: Ebook publishing and getting a traditional book deal [PODCAST]
Sue Cook talks to Mark Edwards (Catch your Death, Killing Cupid), Roz Morris (My Memories of a Future Life) and Mel Sherratt (Taunting the Dead,…
5 Questions for Ruth Warburton [INTERVIEW]
Ruth Warburton is a job-sharing publicity manager for the Vintage imprints Chatto & Windus and Square Peg at Random House. Having won PPC awards for…
Penguin sues authors for advances. Books are a business.
‘I don’t get up in the morning and say: Am I inspired? …No, I’m not. I won’t work. ‘cos, God, how often would I ever…
6 questions for Katie Nicholls – Scout at Badcock & Rozycki Literary Agents [INTERVIEW]
If you were to job swap for a week; could you do what your colleagues do – and do it well? Could you manage a…
6 questions for Wendy Toole of the SfEP [INTERVIEW]
The SfEP (Society for Editors and Proofreaders) was founded in 1988 and since then has nurtured and encouraged copy-editors and proofreaders both in and new to…
5 questions for Sarah Benton of Hot Key Books [INTERVIEW]
In the last 12 months Bonnier’s newest enterprise, Hot Key Books, has gone from boardroom idea to fully fledged business, currently supporting 17 people and…
Seven Figure Book Deal Proves Talent Beats Data
While the government is busy telling us to tighten our belts and make our own sandwiches, publishers are honey-badgering these times of austerity and whipping out…
Story time for digital publishers
This a guest post from Simon Appleby, who runs Bookswarm, a digital agency specialising in delivering projects for authors, agents and publishers. Simon has 15 years’ experience of…
5 questions for Carolyn Jess Cooke [INTERVIEW]
Carolyn Jess Cooke is the author of The Guardian Angel’s Journal, and her new novel The Boy Who Could See Demons has just been published. Congratulations are in order…
