Words by Chris Russell, photos by Daniel Solomons. Eric Huang from digital agency Made In Me chaired July’s Byte The Book, which brought together James Woollam of F&W Media, Head of eBooks at Unbo…
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Our writer-in-residence Christopher Russell recently published his debut novel Mockstars through Red Button Publishing − a connection that was made at Byte the Book. In this interview, both writer and…
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The Children’s Media Conference has announced that Jonny Mitchell will deliver the Opening keynote speech on Wednesday 2 July in Sheffield. Mr. Mitchell is Headteacher of Thornhill Community Academy,…
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Sparks flew at June’s Byte The Book event, much to the delight of the packed crowd at The Ivy. Locking horns on the topic of effective marketing strategies were publishing consultant Chris McVeigh, Ma…
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Kingston Writing School have just launched a short story competition judged by the multi-award winning Hilary Mantel. 1st prize is £3,000 and there are two runner up prizes of £500. The winner will al…
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City University are currently accepting applications for their Novel Studio course 2014/15, with a deadline of 31 May. They’re also running a competition this year open to all applicants. The top thre…
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Triskele Books, The Alliance of Independent Authors and the Chorleywood Literary Festival will be coming together in this autumn to organise an Indie Author Fair in Chorleywood. The event is on the a…
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Those nice people at The Literary Consultancy have a conference coming up on June 13th – 15th and have offered Byte The Book Subscribers a discount Here are some more details: TLC is delighted to offe…
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For May’s Byte The Book event, Sara O’Connor (Digital and Editorial Director, Hot Key Books), Theo Gray (co-founder of Touchpress) and Michael Bhaskar (Digital Publishing Director at Profile Books) ga…
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Often cited as a favourite conference for all those in children’s media, we’re very pleased to announce that The Children’s Media Conference are offering Byte the Book subscribers an extended early bi…
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Do you fancy doing some creative writing in warmer climes? How about taking a writing course out in Greece? Here are some more details: The British Council and Kingston Writing School are proud to an…
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Host: Justine Solomons, Chair Sam Missingham, Panel: Jon Woolcott (Buying and Marketing Director at Stanfords Map and Travel Specialists Bookshop), Julia Kingsford (Business Development & Consu…
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We were really excited to hear about CompletelyNovel’s event next month, it sounds like a great opportunity for authors and readers alike. Here are some more details: Author applications are now open…
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ePubDirect sponsored our event on Pricing and sent us the following note to pass on to attendees of February’s Byte the Book event: Just a quick note from us to say thank you for coming to the Byte th…
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The relationship between the creation of artistic works and the sale of those works has always been an uneasy one, and it seems to be a particularly thorny issue in publishing. Experienced industry pa…
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We are very excited to hear about the launch of a brand new writers’ conference which is to take place in June of this year, here are some more details: Royal Society of Literature and Alliance…
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“Books, films, music, these things fucking matter; and by that measure I was having one of the best dates of my life.” — Rob Gordon, High Fidelity We were really excited to hear recently about Byte th…
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I literally cannot wait for the final instalment of Salon London’s Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll salon-tryptic. The line up includes my all time favourite singer, bar none, Tracey Thorn, who as wel…
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Sir Andrew began with an overview of the current state of poetry publishing. He debunked the myth that consumers of poetry are dwindling with reference to his online audio resource the Poetry Archive,…
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What’s the relationship between print and e-books? Completely Novel give us some advice and there’s a special offer too for Byte the Book subscribers. Byte the Book member and Co-Founder of Completely…
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