Last week I lectured at both Bangor University (to students on the E Publishing Course) and the University of Ireland, Galway (students studying for an MA in Literature and Publishing) with only a day in between. I could have separated these two trips a by taking a day return to Bangor and flying […]
With immediate effect our new office address is:- bookcareers.com Kemp House 152 City Road London EC1V 2NX Tel 0333 088 0388
UPDATED We’re not really changing our name, but you would be surprised as to how many people do refer to us bookcarers. We guess that demonstrates the importance of proofreading. April Fool! —– A number of people keep getting our name wrong, and refer to us as bookcarers instead of bookcareers. (We think this might […]
UPDATE: CONGRATULATIONS TO Zarina who tweets as @canadian_turtle for coming up with the best suggestion – How to job search in book publishing. Bookcareers.com will shortly be launching a one-day course on how to job search in publishing. It will combine all the expertise from their Job Club in one day and is aimed […]
Here is the final post for National Careers Week. Many moons ago I bumped into Richard Charkin at a Society of Young Publishers conference. At the time he had just taken over at Macmillan Publishers (he is currently Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing). Richard asked me what I was speaking about and I replied: ‘I’m […]
Today is International Women’s Day and all day on the @bookcareers Twitter feed we will be celebrating women who have successful careers in publishing. It is fantastic to see that so many vibrant women are leading companies, departments and businesses all across the industry, setting trends, and are at the forefront of digital developments. If […]
I recently tried an experiment: I went on holiday and, for the first time since mobile phones began, I turned my mobile phone off. Feeling very brave I also set up an ‘out of the office’ auto-reply on all my emails. It said the following: I know you might find this hard to believe but […]
In the past year I have had to help an increasing number of clients through work-related stress, caused by juggling their personal and professional online lives, so I was intrigued when a copy of The Digital Diet landed on my desk. It describes itself as ‘the 4-step plan to break your tech addiction and regain […]
We are delighted to announce that at an awards ceremony last night, Women in Publishing honoured Suzanne Collier with the Pandora Award ‘for a significant and sustained contribution to the publishing industry’. On being given the award Suzanne said: “If you know the story of Pandora, you will know that when she opened her box […]
Whoever you are, you need this book. Whether you are someone who is planning a full-blown social media strategy for a business or an individual who wants to know how to learn the right way to use online marketing. Each element (linkedin, twitter, email, blogs, facebook etc) has its own unique chapter so you can […]
