Byte Connects – Lucy Ridout (Editor) and Simon Appleby/The Bookswarm Team (Web Development)
We’re heard about some wonderful collaborations via the Byte The Book.editor Lucy Ridout talking about her work with Simon Appleby and his development team at Bookswarm If you’re found some great coll…
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Byte Experts: Byte The Bullet: Why Getting a Coach is a Brilliant New Year’s Resolution by David Roche
Publishing industry veteran David Roche has just launched his new venture Grey Area Coaching. in this month’s Byte Experts series he explains why new year is the perfect time to treat yourself (yes, r…
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Books read since 1995 to date by Justine Solomons
Someone once told me, “It’s not what a person is like that matters but what they like that matters.” Since 1995 I’ve have written a list of every book I’ve read. In case you’re wondering what I’m like…
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Byte Shorts Showcase: Selkie by Sarah Tinsley
The honeymoon was a time to celebrate the sweetness of your connection. Aunt Harriet’s card had a real clover stuck on the front, an extra leaf drawn on in pencil. There was a large pile of them, all…
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Byte Experts: Launching A Book in Lockdown by Marc Cox
This month in our Byte Experts series, we hear from author Marc Cox on how to launch a book in a pandemic. As every first time author knows, there is nothing that quite matches the excitement and trep…
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Byte Shorts Showcase: End of Lockdown Summer by Amelia B. Kyazze
She danced on me this morning. With her mother’s phone playing the songs she likes. She paused to change the song and then danced again. She was wearing new clothes I hadn’t seen before, white with na…
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Byte Experts: How to Be a Freelance Writer by Karen Hockney
To tie in with Karen Hockney’s members’ webinar , How To Become a Successful Freelance Writer, which we’ll be running on October 21st 2020. here are some of her top tips on making it on the page. So…
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Byte Shorts Showcase: Galvanise Gloss by Kavita A. Jindal
What if there has been no turning point in your life for twenty-two years? You wait for something to spur you into a change. There have been fluctuations, and movement, but no critical moments. Never…
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Byte Experts: 5 Tips to Get Past Writer’s Block by Nicole Johnston
This month in our Byte Experts series, we hear from Author, Ghostwriter, Writing Coach & Content Creator, Nicole Johnston on how to overcome writers block. ========================================…
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Byte Experts: Submission Smarts by Helen Francis
Following on from her brilliant webinar back in June 2020, this month in our Byte Expert’s series we hear from Helen Francis, Co-Founder of Francis Literary Consultancy on her tips for submitting your…
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Byte Experts: Taking Literary Festivals online by Alex Hippisley-Cox
As we enter our 3rd month of social distancing and self-isolation due to the coronavirus outbreak, we are more and more aware of the huge cultural gap left by literary festivals, theatre productions,…
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Byte Shorts Showcase: Exposure by Rachel Mann
Exposure I knew it was wrong. I did it anyway. His breath on my neck, his sweat on my torso. Just when we were supposed to stay the fuck apart, we drew together, under the sway of a gravitational pull…
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Byte Shorts Showcase: Covid In Brixton by Amelia B. Kyazze
COVID in Brixton Jess picked at her teriyaki noodles. They were a bit too dry. She’d made them so many times in these 12 days of isolation, she should know better. But after the first week, she was cl…
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Byte Shorts Showcase: Love in the Time of Coronovirus by Perri Lister
Have you ever been told such a huge and dreadful lie, so all encompassing, so monstrous that it takes form and swallows you whole like the whale in Moby Dick. You are somehow still alive in the foul s…
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Byte Experts: How To Hook An Agent by Chris Russell
In this month’s Byte Experts, author, musician and Byte The Book writer-in-residence Chris Russell offers his top tips for securing a literary agent. Finding a literary agent is a rite-of-passage for…
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Report: Byte Confluence 2020
Words by Chris Russell, photos by Keith Forster. Byte The Book founder Justine Solomons and Programme Director, Michael Kowalski welcoming everyone to Byte Confluence 2020. Byte The Book’s much-antici…
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Byte Experts: Reusing Content 101 by Amy Ellis
In this month’s Byte Experts, we hear from Amy Ellis, Rights and Licensing Manager at Publishers’ Licensing Services, as she shares her advice on getting permission to reuse content. Reusing content 1…
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Report: Future Heads: How Can We Inspire the Next Generation of Leaders in the Publishing Industry? sponsored by Ingram Content Group
Words by Chris Russell, photos by Craig Simmonds. To kick off the new decade, Byte The Book gathered a panel of industry experts at Covent Garden’s h Club for a discussion on how we can inspire the ne…
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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews and recommends Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. This isn’t an easy book to read. Such a Fun Age looks at two women caring for Briar, a little girl just on the cusp of her…
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Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone reviews and recommends Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie. Metamorphosis is the word I would use to summarise this collection, the second one from Irenosen Okojie. Everything is po…
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