Publishing Yourself
Lisa Edwards runs her own independent publishing consultancy, Redwood Tree Publishing. She has twenty years’ experience in the publishing industry, primarily in children’s books, where…
Book Publishing Business
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The art of maximising the amount of work not done
This is a guest post from Alison Jones. Alison is a business and executive coach, content consultant and publisher. After a 23-year career in trade…
All About Comics – A photo/twitter blog
On Tuesday night, Tim Pilcher treated a packed room at the Phoenix Artist Club to an entertaining talk on comic books. Currently working as Humanoids’…
Why you should never judge a comic book by its cover
Childish, too niche, corrupting our youth – the criticism against comic books has taken on many forms. But despite this, comic books are one of…
Open access matters to more than academics, and here’s why
This is a guest post from Alison Jones. Alison is a business and executive coach, content consultant and publisher. After a 23-year career in trade…
Audio rights making waves
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. It’s a bit of a contradiction in terms but one of the…
Malleable Models: The real effects of the digital revolution on business
This is a guest post from Jasmin Kirkbride. Jasmin is a regular blogger for BookMachine and Editorial Assistant at Periscope Books (part of Garnet Publishing).…
The Girl on the Train shatters sales records
Paula Hawkins’ novel The Girl on the Train has broken UK sales records this week, claiming its 20th consecutive week atop the hardback fiction bestseller…
To have or not to have a literary agent: an author’s perspective
This is a guest blog post from Lucy Beresford. Lucy is a writer, broadcaster and psychotherapist. She’s the Radio Shrink on BBC London 94.9 on…
How to quit your job to blog for a living
This is a guest post from Monika Lee. Monika is a Senior Commissioning Editor at Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education, executive coach and published author.…
Towing the Line: Banned books and YA fiction
The Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF), an arm of the American Library Association (ALA), recently released the list of the most banned books in the…
Want to win a book industry award?
Winning awards won’t make you rich, and won’t help you sell books. But It will spruce up your CV, massage your ego immensely, impress your…
Authorship versus content representation: What’s the way forward for equality?
Just over a week ago, author Kamila Shamsie spoke out publically, including in The Guardian and The Bookseller, proposing that 2018 should become the Year…
On Publishing in the North: Lucy Houlden interview
Lucy Houlden is a Researcher/Editorial Assistant at Cobweb Info Ltd. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Lucy her interest in the publishing industry and her blog, Publishing…
Permission to talk about licensing…
When we talk about rights and licensing one of the most underestimated components in this sector are permissions. In many ways they are the unsung…
