How to promote a children’s book: a primer
Promoting children’s books can be challenging. Whilst they are one of the best-selling genres of books, there are so many out there that it can…
Digital Marketing
Lessons from Netflix: How data-driven Marketing can help develop blockbuster books
Looking back from this era of lockdown binge-watching and couchification, it is easy to forget that there existed a time when streaming behemoth Netflix didn’t…
Reviving backlist books you thought were dead
In our second September blog post on the theme of Marketing and Communications, New York Times bestselling author Laurelin Paige shares her tips on how…
Online book festivals come of age
If we could have a pound for every time someone has commented on how prophetic we were in launching our virtual book festival venue back…
Online marketing case study: Singing Dragon’s Virtual Yoga Summit
Vera Sugar is a marketing executive at Singing Dragon (an imprint of Jessica Kingsley Publishers), publishers of authoritative books on complementary health, yoga and yoga…
What’s the point of a blog tour?
Claire Maxwell is a freelance publicist, former journalist and a member of the BookMachine Marketing agency. She’s worked in the communications department of various publishing companies…
Season of pumpkins, ghosts and… books? How Orentober made autumn bookish again
Karen Sullivan is the founder of the independent publisher Orenda Books (and Orentober!). Karen moved to the UK from Canada at the age of 21 and worked…
Facebook Advertising: the small publisher’s secret weapon
Did you know the amount of time we spend on social media platforms each day has increased by a whopping 58% in the last 6…
Event report: BookMachine Unplugged 2019 – Talking Marcomms
Creativity is key to a great marketing campaign, and when funds are limited it’s vital to come up with innovative ways to maximise your money.…
Provoke, Predict and Play: The Bookseller FutureBook Conference 2018
Abbie Headon is Commissioning Editor at Prelude Books, and also writes and edits books as Abbie Headon Publishing Services. She is a 2018 Bookseller Rising Star and sits…
Telling stories, selling books: what happens when marketing and publicity collide?
Abbie Headon is Commissioning Editor at Prelude Books, and also writes and edits books as Abbie Headon Publishing Services. She is a 2018 Bookseller Rising Star and sits…
Interview with Claire Morrison, Deputy Marketing Director, DK
Claire Morrison oversees the marketing strategy for licensing, children’s and travel books as well as being instrumental in implementing DK’s metadata and video strategies. During…
Making yourself heard: how to create a books podcast that really stands out
Derek Owusu is a writer, podcaster, and mentor from Tottenham. He realised his passion for literature aged 23 while studying Exercise Science at University. Before…