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Uncovering Publishing

Sydney Allen and Emma Kiesling

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Frequency: 1 episode/33d. Total Eps: 10

'Uncovering Publishing' interviews prominent figures of the UK publishing industry. Cohosted by Emma Kiesling & Sydney Allen.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
11/10/2024
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We work in Publishing!

Season 2 · Episode 1

Friday, September 15, 2023 • Duration 34:21

We graduated! We're working in publishing! In this season premiere, catch up with the cohosts, from where they are now to how they got there, plus a round two of all our publishing icebreakers. Books from our protracted book chat:

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Vicious by LJ Shen
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
and many more...

Keep an eye out this season for great interviews with new entrants to the publishing world, plus some other exciting surprise guests!

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Dr. Francesca Coppa on Fanfiction

Season 1 · Episode 9

Friday, June 2, 2023 • Duration 50:22

In the Season 1 finale, Dr. Francesca Coppa, co-founder of the Organisation for Transformative Works—the parent organisation of Archive of our Own (ao3)—talks the meaning of fandom, the value of the fanfiction space, the success of the OTW, and the transition from fanfiction to traditional publishing.Dr. Francesca Copa is currently a professor of English and director of women’s and gender studies at Muhlenberg College, She co-founded the organisation for transformative works, the company behind archive of our own, in 2007. She currently contributes to the Transformative worlds and cultures journal, and in communications for the OTW, she does background on fandom to journalists. She is a published author of several books, most recently of The Fanfiction reader: folk tales for the digital age and Vidding: a history. Dr. Coppa's recs and picks:- Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series- The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt- Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan

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Chris Liew on Ebook Production

Season 1 · Episode 8

Friday, March 17, 2023 • Duration 46:31

Today we're chatting with Chris Liew, Complex Ebooks Producer for Penguin. What goes into making ebooks work smoothly? Why do we read in particular formats? Chris also shares his path into publishing and, as always, some excellent recommendations in our icebreakers.Chris' picks:

Scholomance series by Naomi Novik (Series)
Apollo Remastered (Book)
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon (Book)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Video Game)
Hades (Video Game)
Hollow Kight (Video Game)
Fight Club (Film)
Chicken Boy (Book)

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Polly Smith on Events at the Bookseller

Season 1 · Episode 7

Friday, February 24, 2023 • Duration 40:26

This week, Polly Smith talks running events like the British Book Awards and FutureBook for The Bookseller, as well as her career from a young publishing hopeful to her place at the center of British publishing today.

Polly Smith is Events Executive at the Bookseller. After graduating from Newcastle University with a degree in English Literature, Polly interned for the Publisher’s Association before moving over to The Bookseller as an event coordinator. Clearly not busy enough, Polly also joined the Society of Young Publishers as a UK events officer before being promoted to her current role of Events Executive. She is currently in the midst of planning the British Book Awards, also called the Nibbies.

Important dates:

17th March - British Book Awards Shortlist
15th May - British Book Awards

Polly's icebreaker picks:

The Bees by Laline Paull
The Vore by Brian Catling

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Joe Cain on the Future of Academic Publishing

Season 1 · Episode 6

Friday, February 10, 2023 • Duration 38:45

In this week's episode, Dr. Joe Cain talks the rise of open access, academic publishing with small and big presses, the relevance of data and online platforms, and authors as entrepreneurs.

Joe Cain is an expert in the history of evolutionary biology with a recent focus on the history of eugenics a host of other related subjects. He seems tireless and endlessly energetic, publishing with Penguin, Cambridge, University of Chicago Press, the American Philosophical Society, and several pieces through STS occasional papers. He is also a member of the UCL Press executive board and past editor for BSHS Monographs and associate editor for Archives of Natural History and the British Journal for the History of Science. Finally, he is the acting editor for Euston Grove Press and a member of the Independent book publishers association.

Don't forget to check out the UCL STS podcast We Are STS.

Joe's icebreaker picks: Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky

Plato's Gorgias

Not Just the Tudors podcast

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Mini Episode | 2023 Predictions & the best advice we've gotten (so far)

Season 1 · Episode 5

Friday, January 27, 2023 • Duration 28:09

Sydney and Emma talk sad and ambitious predictions for the publishing industry in 2023, plus the best advice we've gotten about entering the industry over the past few busy months.

Zain Mahmood on Bookselling at Waterstones

Season 1 · Episode 4

Friday, January 13, 2023 • Duration 43:19

This week's episode features Zain Mahmood, head of e-commerce at Waterstones and one of the Bookseller's rising stars for 2021. Zain has worked at Waterstones for over 13 years where he started out as a weekend bookseller while going to university. We discuss career progression in bookselling, Prince Harry's new memoir, and Waterstones through the years.

Zain's favorite book to give: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

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Dan Kieran on Authenticity and Disruption

Season 1 · Episode 3

Friday, December 30, 2022 • Duration 50:56

This week's episode features Dan Kieran, bestselling author and co-founder of Unbound, an award-winning crowdfunding publisher. We discuss how to get out of your comfort zone, deal with failure, and approach the publishing industry with an authentic, disruptive mindset.

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Kelli Fairbrother on Audiobooks

Season 1 · Episode 2

Friday, December 16, 2022 • Duration 46:44

This week’s episode features Kelli Fairbrother, Co-founder and CEO of xigxag, a new integrated audiobook platform. We discuss coming into publishing from the tech industry as a dissatisfied consumer, the inevitable success of audiobooks, and how understanding tech can help you in your publishing career.

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Meet the Hosts

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 • Duration 22:06

Welcome to Uncovering Publishing! This welcome episode introduces hosts Emma Kiesling and Sydney Allen and their goals in the publishing industry.

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