Sorry for the mess

Very funny blog about publishing from an indie publisher in London. This is my life in the slush pile, peoples. For those of you unfamiliar with the term ’slush pile’, it means people’s submissions.
My favourite bits of advice she give to people considering submitting an unsolicited manuscript:
If you’ve written several other Vampire novels set in [...]

Hello again. So. I’ve started up a book club in London, meeting twice a month to discuss, well, books. Specifically, one book per meet. We only read books by independent publishers, because we’re elitist like that. Or, y’know, some vague high-minded bullshit about wanting to support small publishers in their darkest hour of need, blahblahblah. [...]

I went to a Digital Skills evening, organized by the SYP, last night. There were three speakers, Nicholas Blake (Editorial Manager, Picador and Digital), Ros Kindersley (Managing Director, JFL Search & Selection) and Chris Meade (Director, if:book/Future of the Book, London).
While the other two people certainly had interesting things to say, Chris Meade’s talk really [...]

I’m going to some digital publishing event tonight, so I googled the one speaker I hadn’t heard of and discovered if:book, a “a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens.” Which, if you peer through the pretentious language, means that they are interested in [...]

Bitch made their target! I’m so happy that they’ll be printing the next issue and will live to fight another day. Basically, yay! I was afraid that I’d have to start reading Bust and take up knitting *shudder*.

I’ve been trying to read a lot more recently, and I’ve managed to plough through quite a few books in the last couple of weeks. I’ve listed them below, with some comments on how I found them, and some quotes I dog-eared.
DISCLAIMER: I work at an indie publisher. Two of the below books are books [...]

So now that my official period of self pity (I got dumped) is over, I’m going to kick off by urging all three of you that read this blog to donate to Bitch. I love Bitch. I love Bitch almost as much as I hate Heat and Grazia. It’s one of those magazines that you [...]