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For anyone who doesn’t know, we work to improve accessibility and diversity within the industry by opening it up to as many people as we can for free. We share content about everything from news to trends, spotlighting diverse communities and initiatives and championing voices across the industry📚✨
This year we’re doing the 12 days of Trendsmas😉📚 Check it out 👇
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The Twelve Days of Trendsmas
We’ve put together The Twelve Days of Trendsmas to explore different facets of winter publishing. From fiction, aesthetics and gifting behaviours to crafting and community events, these twelve trends ...
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December 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This year we’re doing the 12 days of Trendsmas😉📚 Check it out 👇
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Check out the latest acquisitions & adaptations! 📚✨
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Latest Acquisitions & Adaptations
Explore the latest acquisitions and adaptations with insights into Intan Paramaditha's and Neha Kale's works. Discover exciting new releases!
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December 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Check out the latest acquisitions & adaptations! 📚✨
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Our latest Creator Spotlight is all about some of our favourite bookish content creators who document their lives as publishing industry professionals 📚✨
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Spotlighting Bookish Content Creators Who Document Life as a Publishing Industry Professional
Bookish content creation doesn’t start and end with book reviews and recommendations – there are so many other ways that creators can interact with literature and bookish themes.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Our latest Creator Spotlight is all about some of our favourite bookish content creators who document their lives as publishing industry professionals 📚✨
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Lucent Dreaming has announced a restructure amid funding pressures. The Welsh indie publisher says it’s “slowing down, not closing,” and is calling on readers and writers to share what they want from independent publishing.
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Independent Publisher Lucent Dreaming Undergoes Restructuring
Lucent Dreaming is an independent magazine and publisher based in Wales, primarily publishing surreal and strange works, whether that be full-length novels or collections of poetry.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Lucent Dreaming has announced a restructure amid funding pressures. The Welsh indie publisher says it’s “slowing down, not closing,” and is calling on readers and writers to share what they want from independent publishing.
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Read more about Third State Books and the work they do to amplify Asian American & Pacific Islander voices! 📚⚡️
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Third State Books: Amplifying Asian American and Pacific Islander Voices
Third State Books is an independent publishing house founded in 2023, dedicated to bringing Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) stories to the forefront.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Read more about Third State Books and the work they do to amplify Asian American & Pacific Islander voices! 📚⚡️
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Add these amazing reads to your Christmas wishlist this year!🎄📚❄️
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Christmas Wishlist
Hoping to add some standout reads to your Christmas wishlist? These soon-to-arrive books are packed with adventure, heart and a touch of seasonal magic. Here are the titles that deserve a spot on your...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Add these amazing reads to your Christmas wishlist this year!🎄📚❄️
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Fancy gifting the reader in your life an eBook this festive season? Check out our latest article all about the best ways to sustainably gift eBooks 📚🎄✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/sustain...
Sustainable Gifting With eBooks
With the festive season rapidly approaching, a lot of us are thinking about what to gift our loved ones this year. If you know a reader (which, if you are reading this, you most likely do!) you may be...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Fancy gifting the reader in your life an eBook this festive season? Check out our latest article all about the best ways to sustainably gift eBooks 📚🎄✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/sustain...
Olivie Blake’s highly anticipated new novel Girl Dinner was recently published and the marketing campaign went down a treat with readers 📚🍽️✨
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Check out our latest Campaign Spotlight all about Girl Dinner here: www.thepublishingpost.com/post/campaig...
Campaign Spotlight: Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake
Known for her successful fantasy trilogy The Atlas Six, it is no surprise that international bestseller Olivie Blake’s new novel Girl Dinner, published by Tor Books, launches with a marketing campaign...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Olivie Blake’s highly anticipated new novel Girl Dinner was recently published and the marketing campaign went down a treat with readers 📚🍽️✨
Check out our latest Campaign Spotlight all about Girl Dinner here: www.thepublishingpost.com/post/campaig...
Check out our latest Campaign Spotlight all about Girl Dinner here: www.thepublishingpost.com/post/campaig...
Here are 4 Winter Reads That Will Warm Your Frosty Nights❄️☃️📚
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Four Winter Reads That Will Warm Your Frosty Nights
As the days grow shorter and the cold settles in, winter becomes the perfect season to slow down, curl up indoors and sink into stories that reflect the season’s blend of stillness, mystery and warmth...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Here are 4 Winter Reads That Will Warm Your Frosty Nights❄️☃️📚
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Looking for a job in publishing? Here are some of the most recent roles:
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Job Opportunities
The National Centre for Writing is a charity which hosts writing events and workshops at their venue in Norwich.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Looking for a job in publishing? Here are some of the most recent roles:
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We’ve rounded up our favourite LGBTQIA+ winter reads perfect for getting cosy this Christmas, check them out in our latest issue! 📚💕✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/cosy-qu...
Cosy Queer Winter Reads
By Rhys Wright, Juliet Harte, Rosie Day, Gemma Jackson and Shan Heyworth
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December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We’ve rounded up our favourite LGBTQIA+ winter reads perfect for getting cosy this Christmas, check them out in our latest issue! 📚💕✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/cosy-qu...
Check out our Northern Press Spotlight for Fly On The Wall Press📚✨
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Northern Press Spotlight: Fly On The Wall Press
Read with intent and enlightenment with the ‘publisher with a conscience’, Fly On The Wall press.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Check out our Northern Press Spotlight for Fly On The Wall Press📚✨
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Here are the Waterstones Books to Look Out For in November and December🧑🎄🎄📚
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Waterstones Books to Look Out For in November and December
As we draw closer to the end of the year, why not stay inside, snuggle up and keep warm with a specially selected Waterstones book? This November and December, their round-up has a range of genres inc...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Here are the Waterstones Books to Look Out For in November and December🧑🎄🎄📚
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The cosy holiday season is offically here and you can celebrate warming up with a brand new issue of The Publishing Post! This edition brings you festive inspiration, heartwarming winter romances, and latest upcoming publishing events!
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December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The cosy holiday season is offically here and you can celebrate warming up with a brand new issue of The Publishing Post! This edition brings you festive inspiration, heartwarming winter romances, and latest upcoming publishing events!
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Read all about the finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature📖✨✨
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The 2025 National Book Awards Finalists for Young People’s Literature
By Florrie Hulbert, Eve Housley, Nia Richards and Grace Briggs-Jones
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December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Read all about the finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature📖✨✨
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In our latest Campaign Spotlight we’re diving in to the campaign for Heap Earth Upon It, the second novel by Chloe Michelle Howarth following her debut smash success Sunburn 📚✨
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Campaign Spotlight: Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Written by Emily Lavin, Chante-Marie Dante, Georgia Rees and Elysia Brown
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December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In our latest Campaign Spotlight we’re diving in to the campaign for Heap Earth Upon It, the second novel by Chloe Michelle Howarth following her debut smash success Sunburn 📚✨
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In honour of Disability Awareness Month, we've rounded up some of our favourite 2025 titles that explore disabilities through poetry, memoir, and prose.
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What’s New This Week: Special Edition (Disability Awareness Month)
In recognition of Disability Awareness Month, we’re spotlighting a selection of 2025 book releases that explore disability through powerful fiction, memoir and poetry.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In honour of Disability Awareness Month, we've rounded up some of our favourite 2025 titles that explore disabilities through poetry, memoir, and prose.
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We’re here to explain all about the EIBF AI charter and what it means for the future of publishing📚🤖
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What Does the EIBF AI Charter Mean for Publishing?
The European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) has published a charter outlining “guiding principles on the responsible and ethical use of AI [artificial intelligence] in the bookselling...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We’re here to explain all about the EIBF AI charter and what it means for the future of publishing📚🤖
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Here’s our roundup of the latest bookish adaptations & acquisitions! ✨📚
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November 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here’s our roundup of the latest bookish adaptations & acquisitions! ✨📚
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Missing The Traitors? Try these northern reads to fill that void: Unquiet Guests, Decomposition Book, A Case of Matricide, The Liverpool Mysteries, Lie of the Land, Murder in Tinseltown, Sealed & No Body, No Crime.
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Northern Books for Fans of The Traitors
Missing The Traitors already? From one murder mystery lover to another, we get it. To fill the void of cunning Traitors and desperate Faithfuls, we’ve compiled a list of horror books published by nort...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Missing The Traitors? Try these northern reads to fill that void: Unquiet Guests, Decomposition Book, A Case of Matricide, The Liverpool Mysteries, Lie of the Land, Murder in Tinseltown, Sealed & No Body, No Crime.
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New from our latest issue! Our spotlight on Seagull Books, one of India’s most globally recognised presses and winners of this year’s Aficionado Award 📚✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/spotlig...
Spotlight on: Seagull Books and the Aficionado Award
In 1982, a poet, photographer and theatre technician with no discernible experience in the world of publishing, founded one of India’s most globally recognised presses.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
New from our latest issue! Our spotlight on Seagull Books, one of India’s most globally recognised presses and winners of this year’s Aficionado Award 📚✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/spotlig...
We’re back with another edition of Upskilling Tips, all about the key skills you need to break into academic publishing 📚✨
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Issue 135: Upskilling for Academic Publishing
This week we will look at how academic publishing differs from trade publishing, the transferrable skills you can hone to secure experience or a role in academic publishing and how industry knowledge ...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We’re back with another edition of Upskilling Tips, all about the key skills you need to break into academic publishing 📚✨
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Malala Yousafzai’s books tell a story of courage and self-discovery — from I Am Malala to Finding My Way.
We unpack her journey in this issue's Author Spotlight.
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We unpack her journey in this issue's Author Spotlight.
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Author Spotlight: Malala Yousafzai
In this issue, we feature Malala Yousafzai, an education activist, author and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Malala Yousafzai’s books tell a story of courage and self-discovery — from I Am Malala to Finding My Way.
We unpack her journey in this issue's Author Spotlight.
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We unpack her journey in this issue's Author Spotlight.
Read here: www.thepublishingpost.com/post/author-...
Looking for Christmas gift ideas for the book-lover in your life? Check out our latest edition of Highlights in the Charts for some incredible book reccommendations! 📚✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/highlig...
Highlights in the Charts
From generations connected by a drop of water, the story of bodily autonomy told by a disabled narrator, to a classic look at politics and socialism, this weeks highlights focus on a number of differe...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Looking for Christmas gift ideas for the book-lover in your life? Check out our latest edition of Highlights in the Charts for some incredible book reccommendations! 📚✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/highlig...
Here’s our deep dive on war in the fantasy genre! 📚
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Warfare in Fantasy
The fantasy genre is often littered with conflict. Such is the case for example in the battles between men and orcs onJ.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, in the political machinations of George R. R. Marti...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Here’s our deep dive on war in the fantasy genre! 📚
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