by Rebecca Robinson
May 23, 2019
PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED - OR SOME SUCH
IRON Press Editor PETER MORTIMER on his midwife role
Copies of the latest IRON Press book arrives from the ...
by Rebecca Robinson
October 1, 2018
by Rebecca Robinson
September 12, 2017
Two large hardback books sit on my desk. One is the latest novel by David Almond, A Song for Ella Grey and is brilliantly, often breathtakingly wri...
by Rebecca Robinson
August 3, 2017
It had been a long time since I'd been so nervous. Me and Max Farrar from Remember Oluwale were at the Saboteurs in London, palms sweating, heart ...
by Rebecca Robinson
June 6, 2017
Scarborough-based publisher Valley Press is helping to raise the profile of translated books in the UK – currently just 1.5% of general fiction – w...
by Sophie O'Neill
May 24, 2017
From a talk I gave at the brilliant Writing on the Wall Festival in Liverpool last weekend.
1. You can judge a book by its coverThat’s what book j...
by Rebecca Robinson
March 6, 2017
If you work at home you’ll be used to those regular doorstep callers who flip open a suitcase full of gardening gloves, dishcloths, feather dus...
by Rebecca Robinson
September 16, 2016
a guest blog post by Cherry Potts
I’m standing in a photographer’s studio juggling a slightly too big pile of books and a picture of myself aged a...
by Rebecca Robinson
March 24, 2016
Editors can get obsessive about words. Writers too. When you’re both a writer and an editor, the obsession can become unhealthy. I ask myself what ...
by Yen-Yen Lu
January 20, 2016
Hamish Ironside of Boatwhistle Books, one of our newest publishers, talks about the domino effect spanning thirty years which led to Boatwhistle's ...
by Rebecca Robinson
January 6, 2016
Editors have their own quirky likes and dislikes. I hate embossed text on a cover, especially if it’s in silver or gold. If you ever see an IRON Pr...
by Rebecca Robinson
November 13, 2015
Having been a small press editor for more than forty years, I find myself reclining on the 1950s Dan Dare chaise longue, musing on the peculiari...
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Scarborough-based publisher Valley Press is helping to raise the profile of translated books in the UK – currently just 1.5% of general fiction – w...
a guest blog post by Cherry Potts I’m standing in a photographer’s studio juggling a slightly too big pile of books and a picture of myself aged a...
