Publishing

With the shifts in technology and the economy (and even to some extent the shorter attention spans of the public), the publishing industry is changing. It had to change. Some of these changes are good news, others not so much. ...

Any unpublished author will tell you that literary agents are terrifying. There’s no two ways about it. Publishers (as a general rule) do not take unsolicited manuscripts, making agents the sole gatekeepers to traditional publishing. If traditional publishing is the ...

The latest controversy to hit digital publishing – and more specifically, self-publishing – involves what is being described as ‘disgusting’ and inappropriate content. Online book retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, WH Smith, Waterstones, and Foyles have been selling self-published ...

The Society of Young Publishers 2013 conference is coming up in November. I spoke to Jonathan Davis, one of the organisers of this year’s event and got the low-down. What is the Society of Young Publishers? The SYP are the ...

The publishing industry has been in chaos for the past few years. The digital world brought with it too many questions, and no one was willing to openly embrace the new opportunities that came with rapidly changing technology. Instead of ...

When starting out on setting up this website, a lot of people encouraged me to write a lot of ‘listicles’. Articles that consist of lists. Why? Well, modern readers have short attention spans. They don’t like to actually have to ...

If you haven’t already heard the true identity of The Cuckoo’s Calling’s author then you must either live under a rock or have been in a coma. The story is everywhere. One problem I have found from all these stories ...

The latest furor surrounding big bad Amazon has erupted on The Bookseller today, in an article by independent retailer Keith Smith. Smith has done some digging and unearthed a list of bestselling authors who have links from their websites direct ...

‘Can you teach creative writing?’ is an age-old question. It could also be phrased as ‘Can you learn creative writing?’ This is something that writers often ask, and it is debated regularly in the press and writing forums. So if ...

Part of being a successful creative person in today’s world is about developing your social network and online presence. Publishers encourage their authors to have blogs, twitter accounts, facebook pages, etc, and to actively use them. Marketing an author’s work ...