Publishing Insight
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S2 E7: Ellie Beadle, Production Designer at Usborne
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 on...
S2 E6: Caroline Carpenter, Deputy Features Editor at The Bookseller and YA Book Prize Chair
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S2 E5: Silé Edwards, Literary Agent’s Assistant at Curtis Brown
14 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Silé Edwards is Literary Agent’s Assistant at Curtis Brown, where she works with Cathryn Summerhayes. Silé tells us about her main tasks and respo...
S2 E4: Anna Cunnane, Systems and Data Manager at Abrams & Chronicle Books
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Cunnane is Systems and Data Manager at Abrams & Chronicle Books. In this interview, she explains what metadata and ONIX feeds are, how coding...
S2 E3: Akua Boateng, Marketing Executive at DK
17 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 mar...
S2 E2: Phoebe Morgan, Editorial Director at HarperCollins UK
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Phoebe Morgan is Editorial Director at HarperCollins UK (HarperFiction and Avon). We talk about her career path and how her approach as an editor vari...
S2 E1: Georgina Atwell, founder of Toppsta
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2 of Publishing Insight! This interview was recorded in January 2020 and my guest is Georgina Atwell, founder of Toppsta, the bigg...
Introducing Season 2
18 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 tr...
S1 E15: Thank you
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
S1 E14: HR Q&A
04 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Diane Hobbs is HR & Office Manager at Bloomsbury Publishing Oxford Office. We discussed many topics such as: the importance of internships and wor...
S1 E13: Design
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Scully is Assistant Designer at Oxford University Press. She describes the main tasks and responsibilities of a text designer and the differences...
S1 E12: International Sales
21 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Sanchez is International Sales Manager for DK's International Publishing and Licensing Department and in this episode, I went to 80 Strand, L...
S1 E11: Rights
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adele Parker is Head of Rights UK at Taylor & Francis. We have talked about many things such as her experience of looking for her first job in pub...
S1 E10: Stock Planning
15 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Anna Campbell is Stock Planning Analytics Manager at Oxford University Press. She tells us about the main tasks and processes the Stock Planning De...
S1 E9: Production
14 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kristi Langli is Production Assistant for Thames & Hudson. She told me about her route into book production, recent trends and her passion for pap...
S1 E8: Audio Publishing
07 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Newton (on Twitter @NewtonLou) is Audio Editor for Little, Brown Book Group and she was London Chair of the Society of Young Publishers in 2017...
S1 E7: Digital Strategy
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Campbell is Head of Digital Platform Strategy at Oxford University Press. In our conversation, he illustrated the main tasks of the different tea...
S1 E6: Freelance Publicist
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After working for over 10 years in Publicity at Penguin and Transworld, Emma Dowson (on Twitter @EmmaDowson1) decided to start freelancing. We talked ...
S1 E5: In House Publicity
23 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I interviewed Chloë Rose (on Twitter @ChloeRose1702 ), Press Officer at Ebury, an imprint of PRH. We talked about the main tasks as a...
S1 E4: Academic Marketing
17 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I interviewed Silvia Dell'Amore, Marketing Assistant at Bloomsbury Academic. We have talked about what it is like to look for a jo...
S1 E3: Trade Marketing
16 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interviewed Dan Raymond-Barker (on Twitter @danraybar), Books Sales and Marketing Manager at Myriad-New Internationalist. We have t...
S1 E2: Children's Editorial
10 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk about working in Children’s Editorial and how to get your dream job, with Christine Modafferi (on Twitter @christinemodaff), ...
S1 E1: Editorial
09 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For this first episode, all about working in Editorial, I visited Penguin Random House offices in London to interview Simon Winder, Publishing Directo...
Project Introduction
03 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hi! I’m Flavia Marcocci, your host, and in this introductory episode, I share the reasons why I've decided to produce this podcast series and wh...