The Press Forward Blog


In Response To … The Man Booker Prize

Posted on October 1, 2010 in Uncategorized

It’s that time of year again. The winner of the daddy of the literary prizes – the Man Booker – is due to be announced on 12th October. The 2010 …

The Art of Bookselling

Posted on September 29, 2010 in Uncategorized

    The SYP’s bookselling speaker meeting was held at the Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green. The evening played host to a discussion on the history and development of …

Commissioning Editor, London: 10

Posted on September 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

  The cold glare of a water chiller moment is too much for me after Mike Trilling’s stag do and so I swiftly head back to my desk. I’d been invited …

The Queen's English

Posted on September 25, 2010 in Uncategorized

The SYP’s press officer, Naomi Holt, talks to Anna Marx, Editor at Michael O’Mara Books about her experiences working on a book about the English language.   Did you enjoy editing …

A Day in the Life of a … Rights Executive

Posted on September 25, 2010 in Uncategorized

What does your job involve? My official title is Rights and Digital Executive, but in reality if you take into account all the different aspects of my job it could …

The Queen’s English

Posted on September 25, 2010 in Uncategorized

The SYP’s press officer, Naomi Holt, talks to Anna Marx, Editor at Michael O’Mara Books about her experiences working on a book about the English language.   Did you enjoy editing …

Guardian Careers Chat: Opportunities in Digital Book Publish

Posted on September 13, 2010 in Uncategorized

Join SYP committee members Nick Coveney, Ella Kahn and Katy Robinson in the Guardian Careers Web Chat from 1-4pm today. As eBooks boom, publishers are preparing themselves for a future …

Careering ahead

Posted on September 12, 2010 in Uncategorized

The SYP’s Careering Ahead event held in the iconic setting of 80 Strand, home to major publishing conglomerate Penguin Books, saw prestigious speakers and experts in their field of publishing …

International Translation Day

Posted on September 7, 2010 in Uncategorized

Join English PEN and other leading translation organisations for a full day of events focused on the future of literary translation, at the Free Word Centre on Thursday 30th September.  Speakers …

Fired from the Literary Canon

Posted on September 5, 2010 in Uncategorized

As book lovers, we are all faced with the same problem: there are just too many good books out there. It’s impossible to get through them all; how are we …

Digital Publishing Certificate

Posted on August 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

Are you interested in digital publishing? The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies are developing a new Digital Publishing Certificate, aimed at those in junior publishing roles looking to further …

Commissioning Editor, London: 9

Posted on August 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Frank had been gone for days. I saw his smashed eReader sitting forlornly on his desk, on a pile of gently crushed A4 pages that resembled a carpet of fake …