Working in Publishing and Marketing: Samantha Missingham interview
Samantha Missingham is Head of Audience Development at Harper Collins Publishers. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Sam about her career so far, the impact of social…
Events
One Big Book Launch is the solution
On Wednesday evening, 10 outstanding authors launched their novels at CompletelyNovel‘s ‘One Big Book Launch‘. The Free Word centre was heaving with literary folks and…
4 Questions for Laura Kenwright of Spread the Word and the London Short Story Festival
In the run up to BookMachine Week next month which focuses on short form publishing, we interviewed Laura Kenwright who is the Producer of the…
Public Speaking Tips for Authors: Interview with Nancy Buffington
This is a guest post from Stacy Ennis. Stacy is a book and magazine editor, writer, book coach, and speaker, as well as the author…
The unseen benefits of events for writers
This is a guest blog by Lisa Goll. Lisa is Chair of London Writers’ Cafe, one of London’s biggest creative writing communities with more than…
Tips for conference organisers from the IPG [SPONSORED]
This is a guest post from Charly Salvesen-Ford. Charly is Membership and Events Officer for the IPG (the Independent Publishers Guild). With a publishing background…
5 Questions for Sam Missingham, Head of Events at HarperCollins
Sam Missingham is Head of Events at HarperCollins. She organised the Romance Festival, which was the first publisher-agnostic virtual event organised by a publisher.…
Two Sides to Every Story: London Book Fair through the eyes of a Fledgling Print Author and a Digital Native
Gill Guest (56) Gill Guest is an aspiring children’s author and sheep-keeper based in Shropshire. Previously a freelance garden journalist, her work has appeared in…
5 questions for Jacks Thomas, Director of The London Book Fair [INTERVIEW]
Jacks Thomas is the Director of The London Book Fair and she will be BookMachine London’s speaker on 27th February. I caught up with her…
8 Questions for Julia Kingsford [INTERVIEW]
Julia Kingsford began her career in the marketing department at Random House and used to manage Foyles’ events before becoming Head of Marketing and Communications.…
International Collaboration In Publishing: Why Being Old is a Good Thing
Note from the editor: If you’re free on Thursday 23rd May, please do join us at BookMachine Unplugged, as our top speakers discuss collaboration and…
5 Questions for Anna Lewis [INTERVIEW]
Anna Lewis is our host at BookMachine Unplugged on the 23rd May– having successfully created Completely Novel (a publishing community) she is now co-founder of…
Why I love the Man Booker Prize (and you should, too)
I try not to read the comments sections of a lot of websites because generally they are filled with postulating jerks who have glanced at…
Mark Buckland of Cargo Publishing on the Edinburgh International Book Festival [INTERVIEW]
Comprising the Jazz Festival, the Art Festival, the Film Festival and of course the world famous Comedy Festival; Edinburgh International Festival has just drawn to…
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…
