In this week’s Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast episode I interview Orna Ross, head of ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors. But Orna didn’t start off as an indie author. She went the traditional route, posting off her proposal to publisher after publisher. Finally, on the 55th submission, she got lucky. I asked her how […]
Continue readingI’ve just been talking to one of my authors, who never fails to energise and delight me when we speak – she is so full of passion and energy for her subject, and it’s been wonderful to watch her step up and out over the last year or so as the book’s taken shape. It’s […]
Continue readingOn my way back from London yesterday I caught the Reading train from Platform 1 at Paddington Station and, risking the wrath of the guard waiting to close the doors, I snapped a picture of its famous statue of Paddington Bear, raising his brass nose hopefully to seek someone who will take him home. It’s […]
Continue readingAny publisher will tell you that audiobooks are big business these days: the increase in digital audio is the only thing propping up digital revenues for most of the big publishers as ebook revenues continue to fall off a cliff. But making an audiobook is expensive, and requires a skillset well beyond that of most […]
Continue readingToday’s blog is over at BookMachine: https://bookmachine.org/2017/07/12/what-cory-doctorow-taught-me-about-drm/. But here’s a nice pic of Cory since you’re here.
Continue readingShhhh, don’t tell anyone yet, because it’s not quite formally announced, but it’s just so exciting I can’t keep it to myself any longer…. this press release to go out soon…… Following a successful pitch Practical Inspiration Publishing has appointed Bookollective as its retained agency to publicise its full publishing list from July 2017. After […]
Continue readingA wonderful evening at Waterstone’s Tottenham Court Road for the Bookollective Summer Party – an eclectic mix of publishers, publicity people, authors and other book folk: great to see so many old friends and meet new ones. Someone I’ve known of but never really spoken to before was West Camel, editor at Orenda Books, who […]
Continue readingIt’s that time of year again: forget the Man Booker, the Diagram Prize is my favourite book award of them all. The prize celebrates the Oddest Book Title of the Year, and the first winner, back in 1978 is still one of my favourites: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice. The Bookseller (‘the organ […]
Continue readingOf all the live videos I do in the 10-day Business Book Proposal Challenge Facebookgroup, today’s is always the best attended. Because this is the day of the Big Reveal: when I announce the winner of the publishing deal from all the completed proposals submitted ahead of the deadline earlier this week. Having a prize […]
Continue readingBernadette Jiwa writes brilliant books. Books like Difference, Marketing: A Love Story, and Hunch. And one of the first things you notice about them is that they’re very short. Beautifully, enticingly, ‘it-would-so-easy-to-read-this short. I asked her about it when I interviewed her recently on The Extraordinary Business Book Club. ‘You know what I noticed, I […]
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