What should go in Pandora’s Box?

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...

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...

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...

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

Salary Survey. Phew.

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...