Last December I was honoured to receive the Pandora Award from Women in Publishing. The Award is given every year to a woman within UK book publishing in recognition of a ‘significant and sustained contribution to the publishing industry’. It goes without saying that it is an award that I…
Are we making unemployment worse for 16-24 year olds?
Today it has been announced in the press that unemployment for 16-24 year olds is at a high (1) As unemployment has increased to 2.62 million, over a million of these are in the 16-24 age group, or NEETS (Not in Employment, Education or Training). This is a shocking statistic.…
Talk Radio Europe
I gave a live radio interview this morning on Talk Radio Europe. You can listen again here – it starts at 33 minutes. If you were listening and didn’t catch all of the details, these are the books and website that I mentioned. And do check out the website HowPublishingReallyWorks.com. If…
What will happen if you go off sick?
What will happen if you go off sick? It’s a good question and one that you’ve probably never asked yourself, unless you wanted to throw a ‘sickie’. Most people I’ve met in publishing love their jobs far too much to throw sickies very often, but if you were really ill,…
More redundancies plus new opportunities
You might have seen this article over the Christmas holidays – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8433024.stm that the CIPD predict more redundancies, with unemployment reaching a peak in the summer. I feel like the ‘purveyor of doom’ when I state I have been saying this for ages. I believe that between now and May we will…
Top 6 into Top 3?
I saw this article and prediction – that the top six publishers would become the top three. I don’t think so. I agree with their prediction about self publishing but in addition to this there will be a continual number of new start ups. The reduction in the cost of technology,…
E book Piracy
Overheard recently “Got given a Sony e-reader for Xmas; already pirated a few books”. Is this the taste of things to come?
Googlepub
Fabulous party last night to celebrate 60 Years of the Society of Young Publishers (SYP), during the evening, I was referred to as “the google of the publishing world” and nicknamed “googlepub”. I guess that is the 21st century version of being told that “my filofax reads like a who’s who…
Advice for Authors
There are lots of things happening in the background and soon work on updating the website will commence. Until then, I seem to be writing things for other sites and not for my own. The latest being some advice for authors on the Writers and Artists Yearbook website. http://writersandartists.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/sales-marketing-publishing-success/#more-1774
Andre Deutsch Memories – Podcast
I am going to write some more memories of Andre Deutsch soon. In the meantime, I’ve made a Podcast of a talk I gave to the Society of Young Publishers (SYP). Enjoy! http://bookcareers.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/2