by | Dec 1, 2012 | Publishing
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...
by | Jan 7, 2010 | Publishing
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...
by | Jan 7, 2010 | Miscellany, Publishing
Overheard recently “Got given a Sony e-reader for Xmas; already pirated a few books”. Is this the taste of things to come?
by | Jun 19, 2009 | Publishing
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...
by | May 21, 2009 | Publishing
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
by | May 14, 2009 | Publishing
I find it impossible to believe that today is finally here. I have always made a joke in the past about the ‘salary survey being the death of me’, well I don’t think I’ll ever say that again. It would have been so much easier to not publish...