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Report: What are the Most Effective Methods to Market your Books?

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…

Kingston Writing School: Hilary Mantel International Short Story Competition

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…

City University Novel Studio 2014/15 Course and Competition

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…

Indie Author Fair from Triskele Books, Alliance of Independent Authors and Chorleywood Literary Festival

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…

Byte The Book Subscriber Discount for The Literary Conference, June 13th-15th

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…

Report: What are the latest innovations in publishing today?

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…

The Children’s Media Conference – Extended Earlybirds for Byte the Bookers

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…

International Creative Writing Summer School – 2014

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…

Report: The Future of Book Selling in the Digital Age

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…

One Big Book Launch – April 30th 2014

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…

Thank you and a free e-book from our February Sponsors ePub Direct

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…

Report: What are the Most Effective Pricing Models?

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…

Writing in a Digital Age Conference 2014 13th – 15th June

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…

Books and Conversations – a New Project from John Ngo

“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…

Sexed out? Drugged up to the Eye Balls? Now it’s time for some Rock and Roll with Salon London

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…

Report: “What’s the Future of Poetry Publishing?”

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,…

Completely Novel – Print and/or e-Book? Advice and a Special Offer

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…

Special offer: Festival of Wellbeing 12th October reduced price tickets

Ahead of our poetry event on 21st October we’ve a special offer for Byte the Book subscribers to help get you in the poetic mood. Resurgence & Ecologist are holding a one-day Festival of Wellbeing…

Am I the only person who thinks publishers should open bookshops?

Megan Toogood asks: Am I the only person who thinks publishers should open bookshops? I know that at first it seems like a crazy idea, so let me explain what I mean. This idea is a response to the pro…

Twas Brillig: Add your Voice to a Talking Book as Part of Read for RNIB Day 11/10

We were so excited to hear about this event we just had to tell you all about it. Thousands of people will help to give literary classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland a curiouser and curiouser twis…

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