Category: Past Meetings

Laura Northedge, BBC Audio Planning Robyn Read, Free Thinking and New Generation Thinkers Olive Clancy, Loose Ends Laura Northedge Olive Clancy the content Robyn Read

Publishers Publicity Circle – June meeting – Features Wednesday 3rd June at 11am Matt Nixson, The Daily ExpressSadhbh O’Sullivan, The i Paper Matt Nixson: The Daily Express

Anil Kandola – guest booker TalkSportWorks as guest booker Monday to Wednesday – allocates guests across all shows, a fluidrole across different shows and topicsAlways looking for a good sports-related angle but doesn’t have to be someone directlyrelated to sport. Ie comedian Paul Smith – from Liverpool but not a football fan = a goodtalking…

Notes from the PPC Panel at London Book Fair March 2026 Chair: Eve Wersocki-Morris, Director | EWM PRPanellists: Cynthia Hamilton, Head of PR & Marketing | The History PressPolly Osborn, Associate Managing Director | Simon & Schuster UKSriya Varadharajan, Senior Publicity Manager | Penguin Michael JosephJaverya Iqbal, Senior Marketing Manager | Orion Books How do…

Kate Lyons- Podcast Booker Phil Williams- Books on the Beach podcast Sophie and Chaya- The Bibliophiles Philippa Hall: The Quick Book Reviews podcast

Graeme Green– Journalist for more than 30 years– The role of a freelancer is to have connections/develop relationships with editors and have a really good idea of what will be a good fit for his editors.– Constantly in touch with PRs, going through emails– Will send out alerts to contacts to ask for suggestions of…

Maria Garbutt-Lucero – Between Two BooksFlorence Welch Book Club Yes to indie press. Not self-published Samantha De Haas – Service95Dua Lipa’s book club Lucy Ellis – Lucy’s Book Club Omma Ahmed – The Candid Book Club – Omma standing in Kim Carker – Bookscape Books

James Lovegrove – Financial TimesRegular review column for FT – science fiction and children’s (not YA)800 word column every other month – 4-6 titles500 word in depth column on one book occasionallySummer and Xmas – best of round ups (for SFF and children’s)Lead times – copy filed a month in advance. Likes to receive titles…

Laura Northedge –  BBC Audio Planning Tom Gatti – Literary Editor, The Observer

PPC Monthly Meeting (June) – Monthly Mag Feature Editors Catriona Innes – CosmopolitanCommissioning director  A big contemporary fiction fan Look after long read investigations in mag and online Used to look after all the books content 6 issues every year Long reads section spread over 6 pages Extracts would need to be exclusive, also…