Diverge! How thinking differently could boost your career
In an industry that outsources most of its physical tasks and processes, what’s the one thing that can set you and your organisation apart from…
Diversity
Diversity, gender, equality, and inclusion in publishing
This is a guest post from Claire Louise Kemp, Consultant at Atwood Tate (sponsor of BookMachine Oxford on November 6). “If you want to make…
The Independent stops reviewing gender-specific kids’ books
In an editorial published yesterday, The Independent on Sunday’s literary editor Katy Guest outlined the manifold problems – artistic, societal and commercial – inherent in…
Finding Feminism: A Woman In Publishing
or If I Was A Car, I Would Run You Down Four years ago, I would have probably said we don’t need feminism anymore. I…
Gender has no place in media coverage of book awards
The shortlist for one of the most coveted awards in science fiction was announced last week – the Arthur C. Clarke award for 2013 has…
Should We Publish New Adult Fiction for LGBT Readers?
This is a guest post from Margaret Eckel, who is Prizes & Awards Officer at Booktrust. You can find her on Linkedin and Twitter. If…
Chick lit officially bad for you, claims study
Defenders of lost causes, prepare to fortify the frontlines: Anyone who has previously had cause to deride ‘chick lit’ – whether out of genuine frustration…
Book Burning Back in Fashion with 50 Shades Libricide
There aren’t many people I know who have come away from reading 50 Shades of Grey feeling they have experienced a well-written, deeply thoughtful piece of…
Mills & Boon empower women everywhere with digital erotica relaunch
In our latest instalment of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey, A-Hur-Hur-Hur’: venerable pensioner stimulators Mills & Boon have relaunched 12 backlist short stories on their digital-only…
In Brightest Gay: DC Comics outs Green Lantern
It’s a jarring moment when you first realise there aren’t any gay superheroes in the mainstream (i.e. an Avenger or some kind of -man with…
