OWN IT! snaps up rights to debut novel by exciting new British voice JJ Bola
Crystal Mahey-Morgan at OWN IT! has won a keenly and closely contested auction to the very special debut novel ‘No Place to Call Home’ by…
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Get ready to get published: Resources for authors
Lisa Poisso is a fiction editor and book writing coach working with independent authors and new authors seeking representation. Lisa helps emerging authors tune their…
Publishing for children: a thought-piece [winning blog idea October]
Each month BookMachine offers a community member, with great ideas, the chance to write on the site. This month Barb Kuntova, a publishing student at University…
A day in the life of a Sales Analyst
Naomi Peel moved from department store retail management to a MA Publishing degree at Kingston University where she developed an interest in data and the…
A day in the life of a Publisher Account Manager at Nielsen Book Research
Jaclyn Swope is a Publisher Account Manager on the Book Research team at Nielsen BookScan, where she assists a variety of publishers with understanding and utilising…
Wanted: Key Skills for the Book Publishing Industry
One the main lessons I’ve had in the last few years has been on recruitment as we hired for various positions across different businesses. Sometimes…
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…
Marketing vs Design: Photo/Twitter blog
If you work in book marketing, your focus is on running campaigns to sell more books. If you are a designer you know that no…
The new hustle
This week in The Extraordinary Business Book Club I interviewed Patrick Vlaskovits, co-author of Hustle (with Jonas Koffler and Neil Patel) and The Lean Entrepreneur…
Key trends in the global book market at Frankfurt Book Fair
Every year, the Frankfurt Book Fair is one of the largest gatherings for the international publishing world and for the second year in a row,…
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…
Irish book sales up by 20% as feel-good factor returns to publishing
The book trade in Ireland is booming with sales up by more than 20 per cent to date this year. Here are some of the…
2016 Trend Report: What publishers need to know
The Future Today Institute has created a terrific, free report summarizing key technology trends and what they mean for tomorrow. I’ve embedded the report below…
10 tips for bookselling from the shop floor
Chicken and Frog Bookshop is the only independent children’s bookshop in Essex. The family owned and run store opened its doors in October 2012. We…
The role of the print book in an increasingly online world
Back in 2010, working at a scholarly publisher, I had a bet with our Production Director that half our revenue would be digital by the…
