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...SYP Pub Quiz
To raise money for the BTBS, The Society of Young Publishers decided to have a quiz recently. It was such a success, we're going to have another! It took place in Fitzrovia, and we raised just over £300 for said Book Trade Benevolent Society. The winners were, ironically, The Society of Mat...
Book Awards and Prizes
This month the SYP was delighted to be joined by two speakers, both highly prominent in the world of book prizes and awards:
Ion Trewin, long time employee of Orion, editor of a Booker winner (Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally), former chai...
The Debut Author: A Gamble or a Gift Horse?
‘How many debut authors have you read this year?’ This was the question posed by Cathryn Summerhayes, an agent from David Godwin Associates, as she kicked off the evening’s discussion. She continued by observing that in today’s competitive...
MANGA MAGIC
When I heard about the Manga Invasion evening, my first thought was of the holiday resort where three Leicester football players were arrested a couple of years ago. As a Leicester fan myself, I was more than a little surprised by the idea that the scandal should be celebrated and ...
We Need To Talk About Eva
Every mass-murderer has a mother. If she abandoned her child at birth, or subjected them to an unstable home, poverty, or abuse, then she would inevitably be cited as a contributing factor to the killer’s unnatural psyche. This seems logical enough, particularly if, like Kevi...
Audio audit
Digital download
I imagine most people reading this article will have heard of digital downloading. Once the province of music singles and albums, audio is rapidly catching up. ...
Frankfurt Bookfair
What was the size of 14 football pitches, hosted 7,225 exhibits from 101 countries, had around 285,000 visitors and was crawling with 12,000 journalists? The Frankfurt Bookfair 2005! Joyce Aravena, Sales Director of the FBF for the past eighteen years, complete with PowerPoint presentation, hoste...
Pimms, strawberries, sunshine, punts ... bliss!
'Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.'
Jerome K. Je...
Legend Press hosts book launch at the Africa Centre, Covent Garden
Survival International, the largest and oldest charity working for the rights of tribal people worldwide, is helping to fund the Gana and Gwi ‘Bushmen’s’ court action against their forced removal from Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve. These...
A View From Withering Heights...
Note from Web-editor: Have you read this book? If it inspired any strong reaction in you, or you want to respond to a point raised by members in our book club, feel free to post your thoughts on the SYP forum.
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Pillow Talk: In Bed With Belle
Note from Web-Editor: This piece was commissioned for InPrint magazine in February 2006 to tie in with that edition's Valentine's Day theme. But for any innocent romantics out there, you'd better stop reading now...
...Scooby Goes Walkies
'Those pesky kids!' 'Daphne!' 'Scooooby!'… they cried as the SYP "Scooby Doo" team trooped around the West End on a hot summer evening for the BTBS Walkies. For those unfamiliar with the Walkies, it is one of the m...
A Vintage Birthday
Note from Web-Editor: While all publishers celebrate anniversaries, and although last year Penguin's 70th inevitably eclipsed Vintage's 15th, we couldn't help but be impressed at the energy and imagination with which the latter conducted the celebration of ...
SPI and the SYP On The Town
Note from Web-Editor: The London SYP-ers are a well-travelled bunch, and enjoy nothing more than spreading the literary love - so we thought you might appreciate a report of what happened when we met our Irish cousins late last year... oh, and keep an eye o...
Online Books Discussion
A decade ago, talking about books took place mostly in the classroom, in living rooms, in coffee shops - any public place where people of similar interests could physically get together to talk. Other kinds of book discussion that did not involve face-to-face human interaction took...
Identity Crisis
This year, the Guardian is boasting that the longlist for its Guardian First Book Award is the ‘most diverse yet in ethnic origin and theme’. Authors that made the grade come from Iran, Thailand, India, Malaysia, the US, Kent, Oxford, Neasden, Doncaster and Co. Tyrone a...
Lots Of Sex, Love, Nice Frocks and Swords
This is how Kate Mosse likes her books, and her latest novel, Labyrinth, has all of the above in abundance. Set in the city of Carcassonne, a restored medieval city in France, the narrative moves seamlessly between modern times and the thirteenth century. C...
Does Size Really Matter?
The November 2005 London Speaker Meeting gave much insight to those who have always wanted to know what it was like working for the ‘other side’. Our three speakers - Carole Blake from Blake Friedmann literary agency, Carole O’ Brian and Andrew Franklin from Profi...
SYP CONFERENCE 2005
Note from the Web-Editor (Tori Hunt):The SYP Conference 2005 was organised by the Oxford SYP, and boy what a great job they did. So for all those who will be trying to decide whether to sign up for Conference '06, you mi...
Looking For A Little Romance
‘Your voice is heard the moment you walk in the door if you want it to be,’ states Maddie Rowe, Editorial Assistant on the Historical Romance list since May 2005, describing how Harlequin Mills & Boon (H M&B) seeks to involve each employee, whether new or established. It might...
Society of Young Love
The Society of Young Publishers can be – and in our cases has been – a life-transforming institution. Of course the SYP has great events, with carefully chosen speakers on important subjects for anyone beginning or furthering their career in publishing, ...
IYPY - The Lowdown
Ten entrepreneurial young publishers from around the globe are competing for the third ...
The Real American Psycho
When I heard that Bret Easton Ellis was giving a rare reading and interview on 10 October at the Royal Festival Hall, I phoned up immediately for tickets. I was curious to discover what he was like in real life, given his often violent and drug-fuelled writing. The woman I spoke to on the phone p...
Future Proofing Electronic Publishing
The desire to exploit the immediacy and audience scope that electronic publishing formats allow, in particular through the Internet, has brought with it not only a huge pressure on publishers to keep up, but also a boom in terms of new technology and employment. ‘Updated every minut...
Anarchy after Book Fair
The 24th Anarchist Bookfair was held at London's Voluntary Sector Resource Centre on London's Holloway Road last Saturday. As the conference closed police responded to a call from the landlord of the Coronet on Holloway after alleged anarchists refused to turn off a stereo system that was disturb...
Adapt-Nation
There's an ad out at the moment: don't judge a book by its film. If you've ever been disappointed by a big-screen version of one of your favourite novels, you'd probably be inclined to agree. However, although film adaptations are often a poor substitute for the real McCoy, there's no getting awa...
Society of Young Publishers - Society of Publishers in Ireland: I SPI a connection…
The Society of Publishers in Ireland, or SPI, was born when three publishers (Susan Rossney, Rachel Pierce and Emma Byrne) came together in 2002 with the idea of establishing a networking organisation for the Irish publishing industry. Its aim was to bring together employees, owners and managers ...
International Young Publisher of the Year Award
This year, members of the SYP working in publishing were fortunate enough to be invited to The British Council on Friday 11 March for the International Young Publisher of the Year pre-award drinks party. It was a great opportunity to find out more about the finalists and their extensive pro...
London Book Fair 2005
It was half-past nine on the first morning of the 34th London Book Fair at Olympia: across the Grand Hall, bleary-eyed exhibitors were stifling yawns, slurping coffee and artfully arranging piles of business cards and boiled sweets on their stands. This year there were over eighteen hundr...
Capitalising On Reading
The London Libraries Development Agency is a small organisation with just 2 permanent and one part-time staff members, which is based in the heart of London in Westminster Reference Library, just off Leicester Square. The Agency is dedicated to the promotion and innovation of the capital's librar...
The Short Story Strikes Back...
Setting up a publishing company was the reasonably simple part. A few bits of paper signed, a couple of small fees paid and suddenly a limited company is all yours. The only real pain was finding a name that wasn’t already taken. Even when one was finally found, it was a painful wait for it...