Ask The Industry Podcast

Sara Cywinski is Senior Commissioner of Comedy, Humour & Gift Books at eBury Random House (the worlds largest publisher). She's previously written books including Kate:Style Princess and been an "ideas generator" for books at John Blake Publishing. She's been at eBury for nearly 3 years and enjoys combining her love for social media with discovering the new big thing in writing. I got her on the podcast to talk about - How Random House scouts for authors using social mediaHow to get noticed by Random House Does Amazon have too much power in the book industry?What are selling more, digital or physical books and what’s the future for both?What is a good way of getting noticed by Random House without sending something weird to the office?Can I book just be launched as book or does it need to have a tour / launch party / blog content associated with it?How long does it take for a book to go from an idea to the bookshelf?When is the best time to bring out a comedy / humour book? How mu