This is a piece about my personal experience of migraine in order to raise awareness for the Migraine Trust. The 18th May 2006 will go on record as the worst day of my life. I woke up and had no feeling in my right-hand side, from my face down to…
Snow Heroes
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…
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…
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
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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…
An Anniversary
Today is a significant day in my history. 8th August 1983 was the day I started working at Andre Deutsch. Publishing seems like a different age compared to then – Andre still ran Andre Deutsch, Gollancz still ran Gollancz, Macmillan ran Macmillan (who had recently installed the ‘revolutionary’ Vista system…