Nigel Newton: Bloomsbury, From J.K. Rowling to Sarah J. Maas

Podcast: Unedited: From Idea to Manuscript and Shelf to Screen · Inkshares

Opublikowano: 2025-04-01

Nigel Newton, founder and CEO of Bloomsbury Publishing, joins us from the floor of the London Book Fair on Episode 16 of Unedited. We discuss his journey to the top of the book world, from his days at Cambridge, to his time as a graduate trainee at Macmillan, to landing a job as a sales manager at Sidgwick & Jackson. We dive into the birth of Bloomsbury, the business plan for which Nigel wrote while on paternity leave, and we revisit the story of how Nigel’s then 8-year-old daughter Alice played a part in the or...