Once you are all dressed up in your bookish dresses and/or skirt, naturally you need a coordinating accessory in which to store all the books you are currently reading, along with a variety of notebooks and pens, because we should never leave the house without one of those. Where to Buy: Yoshi Price: £90.00 Notes: Interior pockets, a … Continue reading BLOG: Bookish Fashion #2 – Bags
If you have spent any time on the internet of late, you will have probably heard of the phrase 'trigger warnings'. There are a lot of strong feelings about them, some of these feelings are negative, and there is a lot of talk about 'millenial snowflakes' etc etc. In case, somehow, you haven't come across … Continue reading BLOG: Trigger Warnings
My graduation is coming up - okay, in July, but it's good to be prepared - and I have been considering my outfit whenever I have a spare moment, because there's nothing like being a stereotype of my gender. Because I did a Publishing degree, I have decided that I wanted to make sure that there … Continue reading BLOG: Bookish Fashion #1 – Dresses and Skirts
One week to go until London Book Fair kicks off - 10th - 12th April, at the London Olympia. The Book Fair is huge, hard to navigate, and frankly baffling at times. There are plenty of tips and lists telling you how to survive the fair (here, here and here for example), but what is … Continue reading BLOG: Top Tips for London Book Fair
To continue with the theme of “Why I am Disgruntled that Most Large Publishers are Based in London”, I thought I would show some cold, hard numbers to demonstrate the cost of entering a career in publishing, whether you choose to live in London, or do what I do and commute. On my MA, I … Continue reading BLOG: The Cost of Starting a Career in Publishing
Publishing and London. The two seem inextricably linked. The major publishing houses are all based in the city, along with significant numbers of independent publishers – moving outside of London there are smaller, independent presses, or academic publishers. If you want to get into publishing, then by sheer force of numbers, London is your best … Continue reading BLOG: Publishing and London
I am a compulsive stationery shopper. I have been all my life. When I was in junior school, it was stickers; in high school I moved onto notebooks. By university, I was continually buying letter writing sets. Now? Post-it notes. In my defence, all of these have had some practical value. I wrote a lot … Continue reading BLOG: Confessions of a Stationery Addict
The end of a year always promotes reflection on what was accomplished in the previous twelve months. For me, that is always accompanied by a sense of not having done enough. There is no clear definition as to what ‘enough’ would be, only a certainty that whatever ‘enough’ is, I haven’t done it. I suspect … Continue reading BLOG: New Year, New Career
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