Ahead of the Curve: What RPG publishers have to teach the mainstream
This weekend saw one of Britain’s largest annual meetings of leisure games enthusiasts at the 2015 UK Games Expo in Birmingham. Amongst the 14,000 attendees…
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Reading on mobile devices: Sarah Franklin interview
Sarah Franklin is the founder and host of Short Stories Aloud, described as ‘one of the most successful, most joyful, regular literary events in Oxford’.…
Shockwaves and Censorship: how the Arab spring has affected publishing across the Middle East
This is a guest blog by Anna Cunnane. Anna is Export Sales Manager at Kyle Books and Chair of the Society of Young Publishers. In…
Mobile Reading: Why it Matters
This is a guest blog post by Nancy Brown. Nancy is currently managing Worldreader’s content acquisition in Southeast Asia by working with publishers and authors…
Reading on mobile devices: Sheila Bounford interview
Sheila Bounford is currently Interim Managing Director at Inpress Books, and is founder of Off the Page Ideas, a consultancy business working with independent publishers.…
Reading on mobile devices: Jim Hinks interview
This is a guest interview with Jim Hinks. Jim is an editor at Comma Press, the Manchester-based independent publisher specialising in short fiction. He is…
Freelancing and time management
This is a guest post from Chris Brown. Chris is a freelance publishing professional with over 10 years of experience in the publishing industry. Chris…
5 top tips for surviving as a freelance author
This is a guest post from Cath Senker, who has 25 years’ experience in publishing and has written more than 130 books for children of…
Beware the Green light on copyright
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. The days, weeks and months leading up to the UK general election…
A unique take on publishing: Sam Rennie interview
Sam Rennie founded Readership in 2014. Readership is a reader-generated publishing company where booklovers decide what is published. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Sam about the…
Book Cover Design for Self-Published Authors
It’s a popular myth that the book cover is dead , but unless bricks and mortar bookstores and online cover thumbnails disappear, that simply isn’t…
On blogging and publishing: Samantha March interview
Samantha March founded Marching Ink in 2011 and has personally published three novels since – Destined to Fail, The Green Ticket and A Questionable Friendship.…
Top Tips for Attending Book Fairs
This is a guest post from Alex Hippisley-Cox. Alex is a freelance publicist and Head of PR for the Frankfurt Book Fair in the UK.…
Jam-packed report for internet-based business models
Dosdoce.com, a website renowned for analysing new technologies in the book world, have released a white paper outlining New business models for publishing houses, bookshops,…
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…
