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 …
Writing
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
9 questions for Michael Grant [INTERVIEW]
Michael Grant is a bestselling author of young adult fiction. His Gone series of novels has sold over 150,000 copies in the UK alone. BZRK,…
Help! I Need an Editor! [Nicola Morgan interview]
The relationship between an author and editor is a crucial one. If you get it right, it can help the whole publishing process. Here Becky Hearne…
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog
Want to write a blog? Unsure how to get started? Joanna Farrow, has 5 key tips for bloggers… First, you have to start. It…
