Blogs

When all is said, what is being done? Introducing the Black Agents & Editors’ Group

By Marianne Tatepo

Commissioning editor at Ebury

The global if tragically-induced surge of the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked vital conversations. Yet, what was revelatory for so many in our industry... Read more

On the come up

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

Last week The Stage magazine reported that UK theatre stood on a precipice, without government help or a reopening plan; on the BBC’s “Front Row”, the conductor... Read more

Kidfluencers hold more power than ever

By Georgia Henry

Campaign executive at Rocket

In the current climate, with schools still partially closed and the majority of all social activity happening through a screen of some description, it is no... Read more

What we've learnt about lockdown reading

By Jacob Cockcroft

Co-founder at The Pigeonhole

The past few months have restricted physical access to bookshops, interrupted supply chains and created a raft of logistical complexities for the publishing industry. Even... Read more

Lockdown diaries: the festival programmer

By Lyndsey Fineran

Programme and commissions manager at Cheltenham Literature Festival

This spring/summer was meant to look very different (a statement that could be applied to literally any person on the planet, I know, but bear... Read more

Rethinking on (not) publishing class

By Nicola Wilson

Associate Professor of Book and Publishing Studies at University of Reading

In Bluemoose Books' first online deli a couple of weeks ago, writer Heidi James revealed some uncomfortable truths. She’d been told early on by a... Read more

The book industry needs to take responsibility for transforming itself

By Joy Francis

Executive Director/Founder at Words of Colour

It would have been hard to have missed last week’s digital launch of Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing. The report - the first of its kind... Read more

Lockdown diaries: the publishing entrepreneur

By Bec Evans

Co-founder at Prolifiko

Boilers are the masters of timing – they know the exact moment to inflict maximum disruption. Mine decided to call time on Monday 23 March... Read more

Winning the argument

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

In the mid-Noughties the Decibel Writer of the Year prize for authors of “Asian, African and Caribbean background” was launched to focus attention on a... Read more

We need to talk about productivity

By Aki Schilz

Founder at The Literary Consultancy

Houseplants make workers 40% more productive! Paint your workspace yellow to be more productive! Take a cold shower! 4 a.m. is the most productive time... Read more

Integrity is everything

By Jared Shurin

at M&C Saatchi’s Social Impact Practice

Over the past few months, we’ve been more swamped by misinformation than ever before. As if current events weren’t confusing and anxiety-causing enough, we’re also... Read more

Lockdown diary: the book distributor

By Matt Devereux

Client account agent at NBN International

Survival mode; that’s how lockdown began for me, coming, as it did, off the back of two close family tragedies - the loss of both... Read more

It's time for the Mind Body Spirit genre to shed its missionary legacy

By Sarupa Shah

Founder at The Soul Agency

Throughout my life I’ve been a fan of Mind Body Spirit (MBS) books; in fact, I’m curently at book proposal stage for my own. In recent... Read more

Dear black publishers and creatives...

By Jasmine Richards

Director at Storymix

I have been writing children's books for over 10 years now. I have worked as an editor in children's publishing houses for 15. For the... Read more

A rising tide of returning book-buyers lifts all boats

By Kiera O'Brien

at The Bookseller

After 12 long weeks, bookshops re-opened in England last week—and the book-buying public unquestionably chose bookshops. The UK lockdown from 23rd March closed bricks-and-mortar shops... Read more

By Marianne Tatepo

By Philip Jones

By Georgia Henry

By Jacob Cockcroft

By Lyndsey Fineran

By Nicola Wilson

By Joy Francis

By Bec Evans

By Philip Jones

By Aki Schilz

By Jared Shurin

By Matt Devereux

By Sarupa Shah

By Jasmine Richards

By Kiera O'Brien

The Bookseller's Publishing Calendar 2020

Rethinking 'Diversity' in Publishing

Read our Northern Powerhouse Focus content

"Choose the high street. Choose a book. Preferably, at this time, choose a printed one, from a bookseller"

#AuthorFirst | Louise Candlish on The Other Passenger

Titles available to order from April, May & June

Evaristo and Eddo-Lodge make chart history

Black Lives Matter in the book industry

The World’s Worst Parents

by David Walliams; Tony Ross

Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

Skincare

by Caroline Hirons

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

by Reni Eddo-Lodge

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

by Charlie Mackesy

No Mercy

by Martina Cole

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

The Secret of Cold Hill

by Peter James

The Guardians

by John Grisham

Slime

by David Walliams; Tony Ross