The Write Lines: How to market your book [PODCAST]
Sue Cook talks to Dr Alison Baverstock (author, publishing expert and university tutor), Catherine Ryan Howard (successful self-published author) and Jane Wenham-Jones (fiction and non-fiction…
Social media
Can Publishers Succeed at Social Media?
Last week, I went to a workshop on social media at Main Headquarters called a Social Media Social, which unfortunately isn’t a social where you…
Price Set by Dice Roll and Other Book Promo Tools
Last week there was a bit of a furore in the publishing world after a Guardian journalist Ewan Morrison slated social media promotion by self published…
6 Questions for Jon Reed [INTERVIEW]
Jon Reed is an author and social media consultant who previously worked in publishing for 10 years. He runs the blog Publishing Talk, and offers social…
Social Media Marketing for Publishers Workshop [REPORT]
This is a guest post from Annette Rusling, who is Editorial Assistant for Caterpillar books. Excitedly navigating her way through the world of children’s book…
Social Media Sins: Just Don’t.
Can’t say there’s been much news this week – no big mergers to report, and no-one has invented the Next Big Thing to save/destroy publishing,…
Should publishers care about Pinterest (even if it’s annoying)?
I saw that donut meme about social media for the first time last week and had a good laugh at the reductive accuracy of the whole thing…
Top 5 digital promo tools: Part 4 – Instagram
One of the biggest reasons that Facebook has become such a behemoth was the introduction of a simple feature. The ability to tag your friends…
