Ellie Beadle is Production Designer at Usborne. In this interview, Ellie explains what it means to be a production designer, and her path to become one. She also tells us about her creative process, how she collaborates with colleagues in other departments, the skills you need to be an in-house designer in publishing and how exciting it was to work on the campaign for Holly Bourne’s novel “The places I’ve cried in public”.

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Caroline Carpenter is Deputy Features Editor at The Bookseller and YA Book Prize Chair. In this interview, Caroline tells us about her main tasks and responsibilities, and the most important skills to work in a literary or book trade magazine. She also tells us about how the YA Book Prize started, some interesting behind the scenes and the adjustments and ideas she has worked on this year to make the Prize more digital.

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Silé Edwards is Literary Agent’s Assistant at Curtis Brown, where she works with Cathryn Summerhayes. Silé tells us about her main tasks and responsibilities, and the skills which are important to become a literary agent. She also talks about her favourite initiatives by the Publishers Association, where she worked before, and Arts Emergency, a mentoring charity that helps marginalised young people succeed in the creative industries. After the recent Black Lives Matter protests in the US and Europe, Silé points out how important it is to truly listen to the voices of Black people in the Publishing industry and act on it.

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Anna Cunnane is Systems and Data Manager at Abrams & Chronicle Books. In this interview, she explains what metadata and ONIX feeds are, how coding can help improve processes in the publishing industry and why having a mentor is so important for junior professionals.

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Akua Boateng is Marketing Executive at DK and co-host of the Sankofa Book Club, a podcast about African literature. Akua has great advice for book marketers who want to think out of the box and for professionals who want to move into Publishing from different industries. She’s also a strong advocate of holding onto your authenticity and uniqueness when doing job interviews to start or advance your career, and she explains why it is so important to celebrate our differences and promote initiatives to increase diversity and inclusion in publishing and the creative industries in general. 

S1 E3: Trade Marketing

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Phoebe Morgan is Editorial Director at HarperCollins UK (HarperFiction and Avon). We talk about her career path and how her approach as an editor varies when working on different genres. Phoebe also gives brilliant advice for those applying to entry-level positions in publishing, as well as for those trying to advance their career. We also discuss her writing career, how to manage a side hustle alongside a full-time job, and how she thinks the publishing industry has evolved in the past few years. 

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Welcome to Season 2 of Publishing Insight! 

Episode about Children’s Editorial (Christine Modafferi)

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Hello and welcome to season 2 of Publishing Insight, an interview podcast about working in Publishing. I'm Flavia, your host, and in this short trailer you can find out what to expect from the new season of the podcast.
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A short final episode for the first season of Publishing Insight, to thank the interviewees, the listeners and all the people who have supported the podcast in any form. If you have any feedback on this season or requests for future episodes, get in touch on Twitter @FlamFlam91 or write me an email at [email protected]

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Diane Hobbs is HR & Office Manager at Bloomsbury Publishing Oxford Office. We discussed many topics such as: the importance of internships and work experience; entering the publishing industry later in your career; how to get transferable skills in other industries or in your free time; and how to keep learning and growing. This is the last interview of Season 1 of Publishing Insight, I asked listeners to submit their own questions with the hashtag #AskPublishingInsight and Diane answered those as well. So, thank you very much to the people who sent me their questions! I hope this episode will be useful to clarify your doubts.

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