The rising tide of audiobook publishing: a new era for authors

Every autumn we run the Writing Magazine Children’s Book Prize, with both picture book and chapter book categories. And it’s time for the submission window to open again! This autumn in the picture bo

When I first self-published The Complete Article Writer: How To Write And Sell Magazine Articles, most editors still wanted freelance material submitted by post. Who remembers enclosing a stamped addr

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

Thanks for coming in today, Bea,” said Jason, the commissioning editor at Bluestone Press, where Bea was interviewing for yet another assistant job. “We’ll be in touch.” “Okay, great,” replied Bea, fo

L If they’re ever looking to recruit spies, forget handsome, fit, blue-eyed Bonds. Forget gym-buffed Daniel, impossibly good-looking Tom and danger magnet Matt. Look instead for a middle-aged woman in

Digital audio players – or MP3 players as they’re more commonly called – have recently made a comeback. As with DVDs (see our feature in Issue 718, page 60), many people have found that older methods