6 tips for organising events
Clare Povey is Events and Communications Executive at Writers & Artists – the online extension of the Yearbook published annually by Bloomsbury.
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Talking Podcasts: 6 questions for The Riff Raff
Podcasts are becoming more and more popular, and it’s time we all started paying attention to them, as publishers and authors. In this first interview…
Interview with Sam Baker, co-founder of The Pool and Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 judge
Sam Baker has spent 20 years in magazine journalism, editing some of the UK’s biggest magazines, including Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Red. In 2015, she…
Tips for running a bookshop event
Sheila O’Reilly is the Events Manager Village Bookshop in Dulwich Village. She is a bookseller with over 18 years’ experience of running bookshops and author…
Behind the scenes at Blackwell’s: What publishers can learn from a bookselling icon
Last week I was lucky enough to receive a VIP behind-the-scenes tour of Blackwell’s flagship store in Broad Street, Oxford. The point of the exercise,…
The Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes: Interview with Michael Kelleher
Many writers work other jobs in order to afford to write. The Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes are designed to give writers of all kinds the financial…
If books be the food of love, read on: Sharing books on Valentine’s Day
As the Book Bulletin online catalogue crowdfunding campaign for reading recommendations and gift suggestions comes to an end on International Book Giving Day (also known…
Innovation alone is not enough – BookMachine teams up with Emerald Publishing
As part of Academic Book Week, on Monday 23rd January, Emerald Publishing hosted a debate called ‘Creating the Future of Academic Publishing: Strengthening the Research…
BookGig: The ‘publisher agnostic’ initiative launched by HarperCollins
A new initiative hit the book world this week: BookGig, ‘all the events from the authors you love’. What’s interesting about that? Well, it’s one…
From publishing to pioneer: Crystal Mahey-Morgan interview
Crystal Mahey-Morgan is Founder at OWN IT! Entertainment Limited. OWN IT! is a storytelling lifestyle brand, telling stories across books, music, fashion and film. At…
Organising a book launch: tips for making it awesome
If you read this site often, you will know that it is ‘book launch’ time. Snapshots III, BookMachine on Publishing is a compilation of the…
An author event without the warm white wine and crisps
This is a Guest Post by Sam Eades. Sam spent eight years as a publicist working for Transworld, Headline and Pan Macmillan on authors including Neil Gaiman,…
The next 5 years of publishing: jetpacks and hoverboards [OPINION]
In the run up to Publishing: the next 5 years, BookMachine will be featuring a number of opinions about what might be next for the…
On BritCrime online literature festival: Helen Smith interview
Helen Smith is a novelist and playwright who lives in London. She’s the founder of BritCrime. BritCrime gives crime readers an opportunity to meet at…
On launching Books On The Underground: Hollie Belton interview
You just finished that amazing book you’ve been reading, and you want to share it with the world? Well that’s what Hollie Belton wanted to…
