Blogs

Outside the echo chamber

Akvile Peckyte Writer

The polite, white middle-class mass that encompasses most of the publishing industry doesn’t hold prejudice against foreigners, probably voted Remain, and yet they will still... Read more

A crack in everything

Anna Vaught Author

I say this a lot: we may write alone, but everything else about hauling a book into existence is a collective endeavour. Then, when we... Read more

Pay the writer

Nels Abbey Author and founder of Black Writers Guild

I’m currently reading Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions (Bloomsbury, 2015) by the brilliant writer, Eve Poole. The book meticulously slays capitalism’s dragons in fairy dresses: the assumptions... Read more

Cry freedom

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

Not many would have predicted back in March 2020 that 16 months on from the first national lockdown we would only now be slowly, hesitantly,... Read more

The real data behind BookTok

Chris Stokel-Walker Journalist and author

Just before Christmas 2019, a friend who worked at a major UK publisher messaged me to ask whether I could help advise them on how... Read more

Bookshops unmasked

Penny Batchelor Author

July 19th was hailed as ‘Freedom Day’ in the press for the easing of mask wearing restrictions. But freedom for whom? With the government saying... Read more

Spreading the words

Allie Esiri Poetry curator and CLiPPA judge

It was an honour to be invited by CLPE to be the chair of the judging panel for this year’s CLiPPA(CLPE Children’s Poetry Award). The CLiPPA is the UK’s only... Read more

Time for tea

Jared Shurin Marketing strategist

I am a regular reader of @PublishingTea. This is a pastime I share with many others. The stories shared by this anonymously-curated Twitter... Read more

Bookselling unmasked

By Benedicte Page

Deputy Editor at The Bookseller

If 2020’s UK print book sales were buoyant, the first half of 2021 looks to have been still better—as far as can be deduced given... Read more

Money money money

Nelle Andrew Agent at RML

I remember very clearly the day I moved from being poor to being broke. Pause; let’s stop there. Being poor is immovable; it doesn’t ebb... Read more

Star power

By Benedicte Page

Deputy Editor at The Bookseller

This year’s class of Rising Stars arrives as a welcome boost in what, on the national stage, has been another tough week heralding much uncertainty ahead.... Read more