Join us for an exclusive panel event featuring members of the Publishers’ Publicity Circle (PPC).
Hosted by SYP UK, this session will spotlight publicity professionals from across the industry as they share insights into campaign strategy, media relationships, author care, and the evolving role of publicity in the publishing landscape.
What to expect:
Lucy Martin, Publicity Manager at Little, BrownLucy grew up in the West Midlands and after working as a Waterstones bookseller when leaving university, secured an entry-level job in the publicity team at Little, Brown Book Group. Since then, she has worked on Sunday Times bestselling campaigns, been shortlisted for a PPC award and is now a Publicity Manager working on a range of fiction and non-fiction titles. She is also the co-chair of the All Together Network, Hachette’s network for employees from lower socio-economic and regional backgrounds and is passionate about increasing representation, retention and working conditions for people from lower socio-economic and/or regional backgrounds in the publishing industry and creative arts more generally.
Ella Davidson, founder of The Book PublicistElla is a leading expert in PR, and founder and director of The Book Publicist, an award-winning agency with over 20 years’ experience promoting non-fiction authors and thought leaders. Herself an award-winning woman in business, she has a background in leading PR for a major London publisher and in TV. Driven by a passion for securing high-impact publicity, Ella has helped elevate authors into authorities and turned books into bestsellers, for both global experts and the world’s biggest publishers, including Bloomsbury, FT Publishing and IMD Business School. A sought-after speaker and webinar host, she is passionate about the power of books to spark change and proud to lead a team trusted by global experts.
Sabah Khan Publicity Director at Simon & SchusterA former Bookseller Rising Star and one of the Publisher Association’s People of Publishing 2024, Sabah Khan is an award winning Publicity Director (Adult, Fiction & Non-Fiction) at Simon & Schuster UK working across a variety of titles including Colleen Hoover, Britney Spears, Bob Mortimer and Ruth Ware. She was co-chair of Simon and Schuster’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council and has always been a key supporter and driver of diversity and inclusion initiatives. At HarperCollins she launched informal network groups for women as well as being a founding member of Elevate.
Rory Codd, Senior Press Office at FarshoreRory Codd is the Senior Press Officer at Farshore, a children’s publishing division of HarperCollins. He began his publishing career in 2021 with an internship at HarperCollins Ireland and holds a BA (Hons) in English Studies and an M.Phil in Children’s Literature from Trinity College Dublin. Rory works across all strands of Farshore’s children’s and YA books, and specialises in gaming and pop culture, working with licensed publishing from global brands. He has been named a Printing Charity Rising Star, a London Book Fair Trailblazer, and one of The Bookseller Rising Stars. He has also been shortlisted twice for his PR work by the Publishers’ Publicity Circle Awards.
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