Blogs

Publicity in a time of corona

By Georgina Moore

Director of Books and Publishing at Midas PR

Just three weeks ago I had all been ready and excited for the Live From London event to announce the recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes... Read more

Remote, home-based publishing

By Hannah Macdonald

Founder/Publisher at September Publishing

Some of what we have learnt about working at home as part of a publishing team over the past six years is true of all remote... Read more

Leveraging invisible work

By John Howkins

From the outside, publishing is showing signs of rude health. Read more

Catch and cull

By Philip Jones

at The Bookseller

It is hard to imagine the concatenation of bad decisions that led to Hachette Book Group USA announcing that it intended to publish Woody Allen’s... Read more

Coronavirus Outbreak: Behind the Headlines

By Jo Lushby

Co-Founder at Pixie B ltd

How China's book trade is coping with Covid-19 Read more

We need architects, not posters

By Jared Shurin

at M&C Saatchi’s Social Impact Practice

In the 1930s, legendary public relations counsel Edward Bernays was hired by a consortium of publishers. They asked him to help with the deceptively straightforward... Read more

Asian Booklist: my response to the exhausting diversity debate

By Kia Abdullah

Author and Founder at Asian Booklist

I don’t ever want to be pitted against Lionel Shriver because, frankly, I’m intimidated by her. Shriver is successful, wealthy and powerful and has that... Read more

Why small presses matter

By Wendy J Fox

Author at

As more and more authors potentially feel disenfranchised by the larger counterparts, or feel like they never had a shot in the first place, small... Read more

Public health advisory: hire a scout

By Lucy Abrahams

at Lucy Abrahams Literary Scouting

With Bologna postponed, and the Paris, Leipzig and London book fairs cancelled, editors and agents are worried they’ll miss out on crucial deals this year.... Read more

Seven days later

By Philip Jones

at The Bookseller

This time last week, when I asked someone at one of the bigger publishers whether they had called off their London Book Fair party yet,... Read more

Holding on to ideals

By Lennie Goodings

Publisher at Little Brown

Despite setting itself up under a somewhat traditional business model, Virago has managed to maintain its idealism in over 40 years of publishing Read more

The secret crisis of adult literacy

By Ginny Williams-Ellis

Chief Executive at Read Easy UK

Excitement is building in playgrounds across the country this week as World Book Day 2020 approaches, and children everywhere will be encouraged to celebrate books... Read more

We are the glorious counterbalance to this climate of hate

By Milly Johnson

Author at

“We are the glorious counterbalance to this climate of hate”: Milly Johnson accepts the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association Read more

The Primadonna Prize - live!

By

Primadonna was set up in 2019 by 17 women from publishing and entertainment worlds – the Primadonnas – who wanted to give a platform to bestselling as... Read more