Ethical Publishing
The opening session of the conference will be a discussion between a panel of key experts about the challenge of being ethical but still profitable. The discussion will cover ethics in relation to labour standards, environmental impact and the accessibility of vital published resources in low and middle income areas of the world.
Chair
Claire Squires - Ethical Publishing
Panel Members:
Simon Juden - Ethical Publishing
Alison Kennedy - Ethical Publishing
Andy Robinson - Ethical Publishing
Sarah Totterdell - Ethical Publishing
Christine Appel - Journals
Alison Baverstock - Marketing
Giles Clark - Publishing Career Success
Kate Harris - Children's Publishing
Nicholas Jones - Publishing Career Success
Leander Reeves - Magazine Publishing
Pat White - Literary Agents
Joanna Baker - Drop-in Session (Marketing)
Caroline Cautley - Drop-in Session (Production)
Amanda Gilbert - Drop-in Session
(Inspired Selection publishing recruitment agency - London)
Kath Pilgrem - Drop-in Session (Freelance)
Louise Rhind-Tutt - Drop-in Session (Publicity)
Claire Squires - Drop-in Session
(Publishing Courses at Oxford Bookes University)
Beverley Tarquini - Drop-in Session (Editorial)
Clare Truter - Drop-in Session (Rights)
Zoe Washford - Drop-in Session
(Inspired Selection publishing recruitment agency - Oxford)
John Whitley - Drop-in Session (Publishing Training Centre)
Author Perspectives
Three published novelists, Tim Pears, Neil Forsyth and Mary Cavanagh will speak individually about their experiences working with publishers, how they first got published, what they value in a publisher and how they see ethical publishing from their perspective.
Mary Cavanagh
Neil Forsyth
Tim Pears
Christine Appel
Christine is Publisher for Arts & Humanities Journals at Routledge. She joined the company in 1999 after completing her DPhil. in Medieval History at Oxford. She has overall responsibility for the management of a group of 85 titles as well as commissioning and acquisition work in her subjects; she also personally manages the History, Philosophy and Religion lists. She entered academic publishin after several years as Managing editor of the European Review of History.
Joanna Baker
Joanna is a Marketing Executive at Wiley-Blackwell. Prior to this Joanna worked for Elsevier Ltd in a variety of roles including Customer Service Advisor, Administrative Editor in Health Science Journals, and Pharmaceutical Sales Administrator in the Commercial Sales department. During her time as a Pharmaceutical Sales Administrator, Joanna was promoted to Advertising Sales Executive. This comprised elements of account management, business development, direct mail and involved thorough market and product knowledge. Joanna held this role in Pharmaceutical sales out of term time whilst studying a degree in BA Business and Marketing at Hull University. She graduated with a first class honours degree in July 2006. Joanna believes that her experience in advertising sales, combined with her role within editorial and her degree background have provided her with a solid background in developing a career within marketing in publishing.
Alison Baverstock
Alison began her career in publishing before setting up a marketing consultancy. Today she offers consultancy on all aspects of marketing and communications, and has wide experience in these areas as a trainer. She has published widely, including 12 books, three distance-learning courses on aspects of marketing and numerous articles for the professional and general press. As well as giving regular publishers and authors on the industry, she was part of the team that set up a new, and marketing based, MA in Publishing at Kingston University, where she is a part-time Senior Lecturer within the Business School. She contributed to the recent Richard & Judy strand on how to get published and is currently involved in a Literary X Factor for STV tied into the Edinburgh Book festival. She has also been heavily involved in the setting up of the Kingston Readers' Festival. She and her husband have four children and live in Kingston-upon-Thames.
Caroline Cautley
Caroline is Senior Production Editorial Manager at Taylor & Francis Books. She manages a team of Production Editors looking after the Humanities and Social Science books originating from Routledge's New York office - seeing the books through the editorial and production processes from manuscript to bound copies.
Mary Cavanagh
It was only as a mature lady of 35 that Mary Cavanagh pulled her act together and became a student at Westminster Teacher Training College. Whilst always being a voracious reader it was through her English course that she discovered the joy of creative writing. Wisely, or not, she chose not to teach and spent the next twenty years being completely fulfilled in medical management and administration.
The Crowded Bed is her first published novel, born out of her two fascinations: the strange and secret life that is lived within the mind, and the myriad of changes in social and moral behaviour over the last fifty years. Her favourite authors, and influences, are George Orwell, Daphne du Maurier, Ian McEwan and the Bennett boys, Alan and Arnold.
Giles Clark
Giles is Copublishing Advisor at The Open University where he organises the copublishin arrangements between the University and a wide range of publishers across most academic disciplines. Along with co-author Angus Phillips of Oxford Brookes, he is currently preparing the new edition of Inside Book Publishing (first published 1988). It has become the standard text on UK publishing courses. He is also Chairman of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust.
Neil Forsyth
Other People's Money is Neil Forsyth's first book. It tells the true story of credit card fraudster Elliot Castro, who he tracked down to Wormwood Scrubs prison after his conviction. Neil writes for a number of British and international magazines and has a humour book out in October (called Delete This At Your Peril). He is currently working on a novel.
Amanda Gilbert
Amanda joined Inspired Selection in September 2006 and works specifically with Entry Level appointments in publishing in Central and Greater London areas. She recruits for all the departments at this level including PA/admin, sales, sales support, editorial, production, marketing, publicity, rights, contracts, export, web, electronic publishing and design positions. Amanda was previously with the Octopus Publishing Group for four years working in various posts, most recently as a Special Sales Executive.
Kate Harris
Kate Harris is the Managing Director of the Education and Children’s Division at Oxford University Press. Until 2002 she worked at HarperCollins where she held various senior editorial and management positions, eventually becoming Managing Director for their Educational, Dictionaries and Children’s businesses. Before working in publishing Kate was as an EFL teacher in France, Germany and Kenya. From 1987 she worked freelance for five years as an editor, writer and researcher, whilst her children were small. She was part of the initial steering group for World Book Day. She currently chairs the Educational Publishers’ Council and is a member of the Publishers’ Association Council.
Nicholas Jones
Nicholas is the Founder/Director of Strathmore Publishing Ltd. After reading science at university and working in a bookshop in the vacs, he expected to go into scientific publishing, but found himself instead copy-editing Dick Francis and books about dogs and flying at Michael Joseph. In subsequent years he worked with television tie-ins (both books and sound recordings) at Thames Television (then the London company within ITV), and then ran the publishing and bookselling operations at the Royal INstitute of British Architects for nine years. In 1995 he set up Strathmore Publishing to provide editorial and production services for publishers of both printed and audio books. Now nine strong, with offices and its own recording studio in Clerkenwell, London EC1, Strathmore produces eighty audio books and about a dozen printed books each year, for clients ranging from the Hachette and Random House Groups and the British Library to a small religious publisher. He was Chair of the SYP, he is startled to realise, more than a quarter of a centruy ago.
Simon Juden
Simon Juden is Chief Executive of The Publishers Association, the leading trade organisation serving book, journal and electronic publishers in the UK. He is also a member of the Publishers Association/Booksellers Association joint Environmental Action Group (EAG).
The aim of the EAG is to spread awareness within the industry of the environmental impact of publishing and bookselling. The group aims to encourage action in every area of the business to reduce waste and adopt environmentally friendly business practices.
Alison Kennedy
Alison Kennedy is the Production Director of Egmont UK and is responsible for the manufacturing and distribution of around 18 million books a year. Her ethical interest in the supply-chain includes three key strands; product safety, particularly important with children’s products, ethical trading which tackles working conditions in factories around the world and most importantly her innovative approach to paper sourcing. She developed the unique Egmont Grading System of papers in early 2003, and in 2006 shared this concept through the formation of PREPS, a group of publishers using the system through a shared database.
Tim Pears
Tim Pears has written five novels, including In the Place of Fallen Leaves and Blenheim Orchard. They have been brought out by three different publishers, not greedily seeking better deals, as authors are supposed to do, but rather trailing around the publishing houses of London after his editor.
Kath Pilgrem
Kath Pilgrem has been providing freelance editorial services since 2000. With a strong background in science (having worked in-house for Esso Petroleum Company for 16 years) she now specialises in business materials, general education, careers advice, and science and technology. Among Kath's regular clients are Henley Management College, GTI Specialist Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis and Lifetime Careers.
Leander Reeves
Leander Reeves started her publishing career with a BA Hons in Publishing and Visual Studies at Oxford Brookes University. Her first teaching appointment at Brookes began during her Masters in Electronic Media, where she taught on the undergraduate degree module, Electronic Publishing Processes. Leander has a broad range of Book and Magazine publishing experience, with many years spent as a print and interactive designer in London and New York. Her main area of interest and teaching is Magazine Publishing. She continues to freelance for companies in New York.
Louise Rhind-Tutt
After completing a degree in English & Drama and an MA in English Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, Louise started her career in October 2002 as Publicity Assistant at Yale University Press. 18 months later, Louise progressed to the role of Press Officer at Random House, working on Vintage and Pimlico paperback imprints for the next two years. After covering a colleague's maternity leave as Acting Publicity Manager for 12 months, Louise was promoted to the role of Publicity Manager covering Chatto & Windus nad Harvill Secker imprints earlier this year. She was Chair of the SYP in 2006.
Andy Robinson
Andy Robinson is Deputy Managing Director of the medical business at Wiley-Blackwell and Publishing Director for Europe.
Wiley-Blackwell publishes more than 250 medical journals from offices in the US, Europe and Asia, specializing in publishing for medical societies including titles such as American Journal of Gastroenterology, American Journal of Transplantation, Arthritis & Rheumatism, Cancer and Hepatology, and has over 1000 books in print.
Wiley-Blackwell is also a leading provider of evidence-based medicine information, including the Cochrane Library and InfoPoems.
Andy has published journals and books in many areas of medicine including gastroenterology, hematology, endocrinology and diabetes. He joined Blackwell in 1991 after completing a PhD on potatoes at the University of Cambridge.
Claire Squires
Claire Squires is Senior Lecturer in Publishing at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University, and Programme Leader for the MA in Publishing. She is author of Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan 2007) and, Philip Pullman, Master Storyteller: A Guide to the Worlds of His Dark Materials (Continuum, 2006).
Beverley Tarquini
Beverley has many years of experience in the publishing industry in both sales and editorial roles. She has been involved in selling and publishing for a variety of markets and subject areas, ranging from educational publications for schools, further and higher education to academic monographs and reference and trade titles. Her most recent research centered on the new RSC edition of the /Complete Works/ of Shakespeare and the commissioning of textbooks for students of History and Philosophy. Beverley left Palgrave Macmillan in December 2006 to become a Senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University where her teaching focuses on editorial and rights modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and her future research will include looking at specific aspects of educational and academic publishing.
Sarah Totterdell
Sarah Totterdell is Head of Publishing at Oxfam GB. She manages a team responsible for commissioning, producing and selling a range of books, journals and policy papers to support Oxfam's work. Sarah has been involved in non-profit publishing for 18 years. Before joining Oxfam, she was with the Directory of Social Change in London; and she has also spent time in India helping to set up Books for Change, a non-profit publisher and distributor.
Clare Truter
Clare has worked for Elsevier for five years, starting as a Rights Assistant in 2002 after graduating in BA Hons: Modern Languages French from Exeter University. Clare is now the Rights Manager of the Global Rights Department and is responsible for three main areas fo work - permissions, book contracts and copyright - and manages a team of 16 staff based in Oxford.
Zoe Washford
Zoe handles recruitment for entry-level appointments with publishing companies in the Oxford area in all sectors - handling everything from specialist roles in editorial, production, sales, rights, marketing and design, to administrative and support vacancies. Her previous experience in publishin lies within editorial in trade and academic publishing with Random House, The Open University and Oxford University Press.
Pat White
Pat started her publishing career as a secretary at Simon and Schuster in New York at the end of the '50s. When she left Simon and Schuster in the end of the '60s Pat was managing their domestic rights department and had become an editor. London beckoned and Pat joined Deborah ROgers, bringing with her a number fo American adult authors to look after their British and translation rights. Nearly forthy years on she is now a director of Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd. and looks after their children's and illustrated list. Her client list is small as shewants it to be and certainly eclectic, ranging from Michelle Magorian (Goodnight, Mr Tom) and Mary Hoffman (Stravaganza series); to the humour of Karen Wallace's myriad of children's books, both fiction and non fiction; to the wonderful authout/illustrators Fiona French, Colin Thompson, Amanda Hall and Sarah Hayes and, the clever Richard Platt on the non-fiction side. On the adult side the scope of writers ranges from cookery (Antonio Carluccio) to romantic novelist, Emma Blair, internationally bestselling Vet, Bruce Fogle, and the legendary British artist, Beryl Cook.
John Whitley
John is the Chief Executive of The Publishing Training Centre, a UK charity dedicated to improving publishing skills worldwide and training some 2,000 publishers annually. He has been running training companies and developing the skills and performance of groups and individuals for some 25 years now, in Banking, Telecoms and Construction. He has brought to fruition the project to design and implement a set of National Occupational Standards for Publishing, which are available for free from the PTC website. Some of his other careers have included teaching, selling, consulting, speaking, writing and marketing. He is 51 and lives in Sevenoaks. |
