Chelsea Graham on the Publishing Post & more: Part 2
Chelsea Graham is a senior editor in audio at Bonnier working across our fiction list. She boasts a Master's degree in Publishing from the University of Derby. Before her role at Bonnier, she worked in audio at Bloomsbury and in editorial at two magazines. Last but very much not least, she is also the founder and Editor in Chief of The Publishing Post, which continues to be one of the best resources for publishing hopefuls--and it doesn’t cost a dime. She's also a regular speaker for the Society of Young Publishers and the recipient of the London Book Fair Trailblazers award.
30 Dec 2025
Chelsea Graham on the Publishing Post & more: Part 1
Chelsea Graham is a senior editor in audio at Bonnier working across our fiction list. She boasts a Master's degree in Publishing from the University of Derby. Before her role at Bonnier, she worked in audio at Bloomsbury and in editorial at two magazines. Last but very much not least, she is also the founder and Editor in Chief of The Publishing Post, which continues to be one of the best resources for publishing hopefuls--and it doesn’t cost a dime. She's also a regular speaker for the Society of Young Publishers and the recipient of the London Book Fair Trailblazers award.
Chelsea's Picks:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
None of This is True by Lisa Jewell (Audiobook!)
Shag, Married, Annoyed (podcast)
30 Dec 2025
Publicity with Josie Cassaglia
Josie Cassaglia is a Publicity Officer at Duckworth Books. She did the UCL Publishing Master’s alongside us, coming from the University of Kent and FU Berlin.
Josie's picks:
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Catherine Webb
The Rest is History (podcast)
30 Dec 2025
Agenting with Rhian Parry
Rhian Parry is a Welsh literary agency assistant at The Blair Partnership who did the MA with us at UCL. She’s also an agented author,
!!Big Spoiler Alert for the CRESCENT CITY series by Sarah J. Maas!!
Rhian's Picks
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
My Lady Jane (series)
30 Dec 2025
Scouting with Gabriella Chipol
Gabriella Chipol is an Assistant Book-to-Film Scout at CTL Scouting. She’s also a published poet and works closely with the Gibraltarian Ministry of Culture and has participated in several documentaries showcasing her work. She joined CTL scouting in 2023 - she’s the resident BookTok and Romantasy expert, reading for both the English and Spanish markets.
Gabriella's picks:
Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For by Ella Risbridger
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
30 Dec 2025
Heritage Agenting with Lily Kovacs
Lily Kovacs is currently the Assistant to the Heritage Department at Curtis Brown. We talk about her experience in the UCL Publishing Master's programme, getting her first publishing role with Curtis Brown, and the world of heritage publishing.
Lily's picks:
Happy Place by Emily Henry
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Infernal Devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare
15 Sept 2023
We work in Publishing!
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!
2 Jun 2023
Dr. Francesca Coppa on Fanfiction
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 (https://www.press.umich.edu/9479376/fanfiction_reader) and Vidding: a history. (https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/hq37vq792)Dr. Coppa's recs and picks:- Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Mole)- The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59468833)- Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Heaven_(Keenan_novel))
17 Mar 2023
Chris Liew on Ebook Production
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) (https://app.thestorygraph.com/series/3631)
Apollo Remastered (Book) (https://www.apolloremastered.com/)
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon (Book) (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c82cdcbc-3fb8-4da8-8012-9d544a052ee7)
Ori and the Blind Forest (Video Game) (https://www.orithegame.com/blind-forest/)
Hades (Video Game) (https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/hades)
Hollow Kight (Video Game) (https://www.hollowknight.com/)
Fight Club (Film) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/)
Chicken Boy (Book) (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/450843/chicken-boy-by-parkinson-arthur/9781802061840)
24 Feb 2023
Polly Smith on Events at the Bookseller
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 (https://www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-book-awards)
Polly's icebreaker picks:
The Bees by Laline Paull (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-bees-laline-paull/6434308)
The Vore by Brian Catling (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1ec187dc-0e10-4281-b049-e02b5c0d42ba)
10 Feb 2023
Joe Cain on the Future of Academic Publishing
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. (https://open.spotify.com/show/3lBdPMGEHwp7b238M8SPUH?si=80e5516e555c4c15)
Joe's icebreaker picks: Women in Science (https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/women-in-science-50-fearless-pioneers-who-changed-the-world-rachel-ignotofsky/2438611?ean=9781526360519)by Rachel Ignotofsky
Plato's Gorgias (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/02193739-5cc9-4288-9574-f3aebdad8b36)
Not Just the Tudors (https://open.spotify.com/show/4cE3piJ1dtOB0Phe8LEBgW?si=e9c5ed9627134768) podcast
27 Jan 2023
Mini Episode | 2023 Predictions & the best advice we've gotten (so far)
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.
13 Jan 2023
Zain Mahmood on Bookselling at Waterstones
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
30 Dec 2022
Dan Kieran on Authenticity and Disruption
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.
16 Dec 2022
Kelli Fairbrother on Audiobooks
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.
22 Nov 2022
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