The Author is the Society's journal and is published quarterly.
It is an invaluable source of information and news for our members as well as for publishers, literary agents and other professionals working in the book industry. It has a circulation of approximately 9,200.
Members and Associates receive The Author free of charge. If you are not a Member and Associate and wish to subscribe, please download the appropriate form, (UK Subscribers or Overseas Subscribers) and return it to the Membership department at the Society.
The latest issue -- Spring 2012 -- includes articles on:
- Literary culture: my part in its downfall by James McConnachie
- All change by Andrew Franklin
- Writer as political activist by Toby Young
- Development hell by Jad Adams
- A biographer’s tale by Richard Bradford
- Get the best from giving talks and presentations by Geoff Holder
- The blog: ideal for extended comment by John Redwood
- The thinker by David Williams
- A great cover story: jacket typefaces by Simon Garfield
- Management books by Sheila Cameron
- At a literary festival by Peter Phillips
- Why authors should speak at events by Juliet Gardiner
- Pevsner’s Architectural Guides by Simon Bradley
- The things I learned by Charles Christian
- Rock-star biography by Liz Thomson
- Twitter-ye-may by Nicola Morgan
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