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Bring-A-Friend Social

Posted on May 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

On the 8th of April, members of the SYP came together at Digress in Soho for the first committee social of the year. There was a great turn out for …

How to Create InPrint Online pages

Posted on May 11, 2009 in Uncategorized

First off, please log into the InPrint Online admin pages that you have been given by the SYP website team via the following link: http://inprint.thesyp.org.uk/admin/ Once you’ve logged in, you can …

The growth of Giglets

Posted on May 10, 2009 in Uncategorized

  Forming a publishing company whilst at school and continuing to run it whilst full-time university students might seem like too much of a challenge to some, but not to …

Canon Tales: Chapter 2

Posted on May 10, 2009 in Uncategorized

After last year’s huge success, Jon Slack and Doug Wallace decided to take Canon Tales into the second round on 21st April at the London Book Fair 2009. The former …

The London Book Fair

Posted on May 10, 2009 in Uncategorized

When you haven’t been before, attending the London Book Fair seems like an attractive country that you always hear people talking about and, from afar, can only imagine is full …

SYP partners with Outsource Publishing for www.syp-60.org.uk

Posted on May 8, 2009 in Uncategorized

Website all set to launch at Groucho "Publishing Now and Then" event, 20 May The Society of Young Publishers is hard at work developing www.syp-60.org.uk, an ambitious new website project …

Psycho Commissioning Editor

Posted on May 6, 2009 in Uncategorized

I’ve been to a few London book fairs now. I’m ready to accept that, aside from walking around the scarily similar stands and buying five pound coffees, if you’re not here …

Publishing Newbie

Posted on April 28, 2009 in Uncategorized

The universal dread for aspiring publishing stars is spending too long working for free on countless work experience placements or internships. Those publishing hopefuls amongst the audience at the SYP’s …

Canon Tales 2 Webcast

Posted on April 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

Watch the webcast of Canon Tales 2, an SYP show that received rapturous applause at London Book Fair on Tuesday 22nd April.

Louise Rhind-Tutt: The Campaign Behind The Outcast

Posted on April 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

Read the former SYP Chair’s account of her publicity campaign for Sadie Jones’s The Outcast in an article on the British Book Industry Awards Website.

London Book Club: April

Posted on April 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga April saw the SYP book club reading the 2008 Man Booker Prize winner, The White Tiger. A lot of people described the storyline as …

Psycho Commissioning Editor

Posted on April 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

I’m gasping for water as dry grass crunches underfoot. I walk down wide streets and see no-one out, steel and plastic cubes chock full of people, cars still warm in the …