Publishing Insight

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”.

Books recommended by Ellie: https://www.publishing-insight.com/post/ellie-beadleBookshop.org affiliate link: https://bit.ly/38dQMKC

Thanks for listening! If you have enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and recommend it to a friend or on social media. Donate on Ko-fi: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight⁠

Visit my website: ⁠⁠https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsightWrite me an email: ⁠[email protected]⁠

Music: Modes of Light by Stephen Elliott ⁠https://soundcloud.com/stephenelliott-1⁠  Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle 

Twitter: ⁠⁠@FlamFlam91⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠@flamflam91⁠⁠

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.
Books recommended and mentioned in the episode: https://www.publishing-insight.com/post/caroline-carpenter
Bookshop.org affiliate link: https://bit.ly/38dQMKC

Thanks for listening! If you have enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and recommend it to a friend or on social media. Donate on Ko-fi: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight⁠⁠

Visit my website: https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsight Write me an email: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Music: Modes of Light by Stephen Elliott ⁠⁠https://soundcloud.com/stephenelliott-1⁠⁠  Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle 

Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠@FlamFlam91⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@flamflam91⁠⁠⁠

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.
Blog post with the list of books recommended by Silé: https://www.publishing-insight.com/post/sile-edwards
Bookshop.org affiliate link: https://bit.ly/38dQMKC

Thanks for listening! If you have enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and recommend it to a friend or on social media. 

Donate on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight
Visit my website: ⁠https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsightWrite me an email: [email protected]

Music: Modes of Light by Stephen Elliott https://soundcloud.com/stephenelliott-1  Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle 

Twitter: ⁠@FlamFlam91⁠Instagram: ⁠@flamflam91⁠

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.
Blog post with the list of books and coding resources recommended by Anna: https://www.publishing-insight.com/post/anna-cunnane
Bookshop.org affiliate link: https://bit.ly/38dQMKC

Thanks for listening! If you have enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and recommend it to a friend or on social media. Donate on Ko-fi: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight⁠⁠

Visit my website: ⁠⁠⁠https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsightWrite me an email: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Music: Modes of Light by Stephen Elliott ⁠⁠https://soundcloud.com/stephenelliott-1⁠⁠  Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle 

Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠@FlamFlam91⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@flamflam91⁠⁠⁠

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. 
Inclusive Indies Crowdfunding campaign: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/inclusive-indies
Blog post with the books recommended by Akua.
Bookshop.org affiliate link: https://bit.ly/38dQMKC

S1 E3: Trade MarketingS2 E4: Academic Marketing 

Thanks for listening! If you have enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and recommend it to a friend or on social media. Donate on Ko-fi: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight⁠⁠

Visit my website: ⁠⁠⁠https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsightWrite me an email: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Music: Modes of Light by Stephen Elliott ⁠⁠https://soundcloud.com/stephenelliott-1⁠⁠  Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle 

Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠@FlamFlam91⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@flamflam91⁠⁠⁠

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. 

S1 E1: EditorialS1 E2: Children’s Editorial

Blog post with the books and authors recommended by Phoebe in the interview.
Bookshop.org affiliate link: https://bit.ly/38dQMKC

Thanks for listening! If you have enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and recommend it to a friend or on social media. Donate on Ko-fi: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight⁠⁠

Visit my website: ⁠⁠⁠https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsightWrite me an email: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Music: Modes of Light by Stephen Elliott ⁠⁠https://soundcloud.com/stephenelliott-1⁠⁠  Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle 

Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠@FlamFlam91⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@flamflam91⁠⁠⁠

Welcome to Season 2 of Publishing Insight! 
This interview was recorded in January 2020 and my guest is Georgina Atwell, founder of Toppsta, the biggest review and recommendation platform for children’s books in the UK.  Before creating Toppsta, Georgina worked at Penguin, DK and Apple. 
We discussed: working on digital products in publishing vs at a tech company, what are Toppsta’s mission and business model, what are the most important steps to develop a new digital product. She also gives advice for people applying to entry-level roles in publishing, talks about current trends in children’s literature and recommends some of her favourite titles.
Blog post with the list of books recommended by Georgina.Bookshop.org affiliate link: https://bit.ly/38dQMKC

Episode about Children’s Editorial (Christine Modafferi)Episode about Digital Strategy (John Campbell) 

Thanks for listening! If you have enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and recommend it to a friend or on social media. Donate on Ko-fi: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight⁠⁠

Visit my website: ⁠⁠⁠https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsightWrite me an email: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Music: Modes of Light by Stephen Elliott ⁠⁠https://soundcloud.com/stephenelliott-1⁠⁠  Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle 

Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠@FlamFlam91⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@flamflam91⁠⁠⁠

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.
Thanks for listening! If you have enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and recommend it to a friend or on social media. Donate on Ko-fi: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight⁠⁠Bookshop.org affiliate link: ⁠https://bit.ly/38dQMKC⁠

Visit my website: ⁠⁠⁠https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsightWrite me an email: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Music: Modes of Light by Stephen Elliott ⁠⁠https://soundcloud.com/stephenelliott-1⁠⁠  Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle 

Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠@FlamFlam91⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@flamflam91⁠⁠⁠

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]
Thank you very much,
Flavia
Support the podcast: https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight
Bookshop.org affiliate link: https://bit.ly/38dQMKC
Visit my website: https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsight

If you have enjoyed this season of Publishing Insight please subscribe, leave a review and share it with other people who may find it interesting as well.
Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle. Music: Dig the Uke by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. https://bit.ly/1VLy3cJ Ft: Kara Square.

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.
Bookshop.org affiliate link: https://bit.ly/38dQMKC

Support the show⁠ (https://ko-fi.com/publishinginsight)
Get in touch on Twitter @FlamFlam91 or write me an email at [email protected]
Visit my website: https://publishinginsight.wixsite.com/publishinginsight

Books mentioned: 
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr; - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton; - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows; - The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. 

Thank you so much for listening! If you have enjoyed this episode please subscribe, leave a review and share it with other people who may find it interesting as well.

Portrait illustration by Ellie Beadle. Music: Dig the Uke by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. https://bit.ly/1VLy3cJ Ft: Kara Square.