Well everyone else is talking about the snow so it only seems right to join in. I wonder how many of you have been ‘snow heroes’ this week – struggling into the office against the odds? Or have you been working at home? Has your children’s school been closed? Maybe your boss called a…
Bookcareers Job Club to continue into 2010
We’re pleased to announce that the bookcareers Initiative (Job Club) will continue for the time being, helping those who have lost their jobs within the industry and are currently unemployed. We’ve rearranged the London groups slightly, with a regular CV Masterclass or Interview Coaching session, as well as a usual…
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
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 the data,…
What ever happened to my book?
It is a question I am asked quite often and it is a question I hope to answer very shortly. I was due to write a careers guide to publishing but I cancelled the contract. At the time I had a full time job in publishing, was running bookcareers, all…