Ambient Literature explain their project to Byte the Book and call out for London based volunteers Over the next 6 months, the Ambient Literature project will be publicly releasing three new works of…
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Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews When Your Life Depends On It co-written by Byte the Book member, Brad Borkan and David Hirzel. Antarctic exploration of the early 1900s, before radio communications an…
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Words by Chris Russell,photos by Katrina Hopewell. On a sweltering midsummer’s evening, the panel at June’s Byte the Book sought to answer one perennial question: does self-publishing represent opport…
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Byte the Book member Nicole Johnston is a Freelance Communications, Policy and Writing Consultant. Here she offers authors some tips on how to get their message through the digital ‘noise’. We live in…
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Writer friends and Byte the Book members Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney are the authors of A Secret Sisterhood: The hidden friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf published by Aurum P…
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‘Film the House’, one of whose many sponsors are the wonderful ALCS, call for submissions for their Short Film and Script Competition. The Competition We’d like to invite student and independent filmm…
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Children’s author, publisher and Byte the Book member Heather Maisner takes us through her journey into self-publishing. I am a children’s author with over 35 books, published by various publishers in…
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Literary Death Match returns to Miranda at Ace Hotel London to celebrate the launch of their founder Adrian Todd Zuniga’s debut novel (Collision Theory), by putting on a night of epically hiiarious, l…
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Byte the Book member Yasmin Standen will curate this year’s Midsummer Muswell, an annual event which takes place in Muswell Hill, North London. Yasmin Standen, agent and publisher at Three Hares Publi…
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Providing a great lead in to June’s debate, The Author as Publisher: Opportunity or Vanity? sponsored by Type & Tell, author Jon Appleton talks to Byte the Book about his decision to self-publish…
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Words by Chris Russell,photos by Katrina Hopewell. May’s Byte the Book tackled the hot topic of audio, a branch of the industry that has seen extraordinary growth in recent years. Videl Bar-Kar, forme…
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Throughout Hay Festival (25th May to 4th June 2017) The Book Publicist team are inviting authors and publishers to pick their brains on how to get the right publicity for their non-fiction books. Base…
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Novelist, copywriter and Byte the Book member, Chris Chalmers gives us the low down on his publishing journey, showing just how useful the Byte the Book network can be. Last week I had my third novel…
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Colum McCann’s Letters to a Young Writer is out this month. You can read a few of his tips below. Bloomsbury have offered us some free copies for the first ten people to correctly answer the following…
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What can Clays Indie Publishing, a division of Clays, offer independent authors and publishers? We asked Georgina Aldridge of Clays Indie Publishing a series of questions to find out. Q: Clays has bee…
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Launched on 27th April, Lounge Books is a website for book lovers, aiming to put more books into more hands. With people-powered recommendations, ideas for gifts and selections of the best ebook deals…
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Byte the Book members get in free to the final instalment of Salon London’s ‘Caring, Sharing, Daring’ Spring Series, Thursday 4th May at The Hospital Club. Mike Childs, Head of Policy and Research at…
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New Byte The Book Member Jacquelyn Guderley couldn’t wait to tell us about her latest venture, Salomé. Salomé is a literary magazine for emerging female writers. Salomé gives anyone who identifies as…
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Words by Chris Russell,photos by Katrina Hopewell. If there’s one driving force behind the ever-evolving landscape of book publishing, it’s technology. Like many aspects of the business, distribution…
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Byte the Book member, Heather O’Connell, teaches the Authorpreneur short course at City, University of London and knows all about the importance of turning writing into business… Do you dream of being…
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