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Report – Clever Content: How Does Digital Open up New Revenue Streams for Authors

Words by Chris Russell, photos by Nicole Kavanaugh. February’s Byte The Book brought together Crystal Mahey-Morgan of Own It Entertainment, Helen McGinn of The Knackered Mothers’ Wine Club, “Mr Byte-T…

Report: Do Book Subscriptions Work for Authors and Publishers?

Words by Chris Russell, photos by Nicole Kavanaugh. The opening Byte The Book of 2016 pitted Justo Hidalgo, co-founder of Spanish start-up 24Symbols, against literary agent Meg Davis in an attempt to…

Futurebook 2015 – Report from Byte Consultancy’s Hermione Ireland

We loved Futurebook this year, we learnt and networked loads. Well done everyone at the Bookseller! Byte Consultancy’s Hermione Ireland has written a report on key learnings from the event. A lively…

Byte and Me by Derek Farrell

It has just been fantastic to have Derek Farrell in the Byte the Book network and we were really pleased when another one of our members, Chris McVeigh of Fahrenheit Press decided to publish his book,…

Report: Do Authors Need Social Media?

Words by Jantien Abma, photos by Danny Lyle. November’s Byte the Boook saw us gathered in The Groucho Club for the last time in 2015, and for the last time in the Gennaro Room to listen to Midas PR’s…

Report: Who are the New Publishers?

Words by Chris Russell photos by Daniel Solomons The sold-out return of Byte The Book proved to be one of its most thought-provoking and boisterous nights yet. Chair Lisa Edwards led a three-strong pa…

Take your Children’s Fiction to the Next Level. Start Here.

We were intrigued to learn that City University are launching a new short course focusing on writing Children’s Fiction. Here are some more details: Take the Children’s Fiction Workshop with award-win…

Report: How Can We Access Finance to Enable Innovative Publishing Projects?

Words by Jantien Abma photos by Danny Lyle. July’s Byte the Book had us all gathered to watch a discussion on accessing finance for innovative publishing projects, in association with charity World Re…

Smitten by Byte the Book by Julia Laflin

Great to hear another lovely testimonial from a Byte the Book member. Julia Laflin describes how she used Byte the Book’s pool of resources and network of excellent members to get motivated to self pu…

Report: What Place do Book Design and Illustration have in the Digital Age?

Words by Chris Russell, photos by Daniel Solomons. For May’s Byte The Book, Tate Publishing’s Jacky Klein chaired an event discussing the role of book design and illustration in the digital age. The p…

The New Space in Publishing – 20th May 2015, 6-9pm Greenwich University (free to attend)

Byte the Book’s founder, Justine Solomons has been invited to chair a panel at Greenwich University, it’s free to attend and you’re all invited, here are more details: Join us for an evening of discus…

The Novel Studio: Deadline for Submissions 29th May and Opportunity to be Seen by Agents

The Novel Studio course at City University London, where Byte the Book’s Justine and Jantien both studied creative writing, are now accepting applications for the 2015/2016 school year. The Novel Stud…

The Byte Bursary: Byte the Book’s First Annual Bursary Awarded to Rebecca Needes

We’re very happy to announce the inauguration of the Byte Bursary, which will award one young outstanding member of the publishing industry with free membership to the Byte the Book, free access to ou…

Byte the Book Writer-in-Residence Chris Russell Scores a Three-Book Deal with Hodder

On 30 March 2015, Hodder Children’s Books announced the acquisition of Songs About A Girl by Chris Russell. Senior Commissioning Editor Naomi Greenwood acquired UK & Commonwealth rights from Ed Wi…

CompletelyNovel’s One Big Book Launch 2015: Submissions Open

After the success of One Big Book Launch 2014, submissions are now open for authors to submit their books for 2015 on the theme; ‘Inspiring People and Places’. One Big Book Launch is a ‘CompletelyNove…

A Byte the Book Success Story by Zoe Cunningham

Zoe Cunningham and Tracey Sinclair met through Byte the Book and went on to create a critically-acclaimed theatre show together. Zoe has written an article to tell us a little more about their collabo…

Report: Blogs, Vlogs and Books – How Can you Use Different Platforms to Build an Audience?

Words by Chris Russell, photos by So Fraiche Media Author and freelance journalist Daisy Buchanan chaired Byte The Book’s March event, leading a discussion on how writers, bloggers and vloggers can us…

Writing time: Making the Minutes Count

Are you always complaining you don’t have enough time to write? Well here’s some advice from author, journalist and editor Lane Ashfeldt For years before putting any real graft into my fiction, I wrot…

Report: The Independent Author’s Journey

Words by Chris Russell, photos by Howard Pugh. February’s Byte The Book was an author-focussed affair, turning the spotlight on best-selling independent novelist Mark Dawson. Interviewed by Amazon’s D…

ePub Direct Converts with Care

Everyone wants to make money from their backlist. Our February sponsors, ePub Direct have developed a a carefully formulated process to simply and efficiently digitise your books. Click on the infogra…

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