Happy 10th Birthday, Salt

I’d like to thank my wife and business partner, Jen — my terrific senior management team: John Kinsella, Linda Bennett and John Skelton. I’d like to thank my hard-working staff Lee and Sarah-Jayne. Elspeth in Scotland. Sincere thanks to my terrific editors, Janet, Kate, Víctor and Allison in the USA, Ian in Wales, [...]

JustOneBook 2010

I hoped I’d never have to write this note. The recession has continued to have a very negative impact on sales at Salt and we’re finally having to go public to ask you to help support us.

Our sales are now 60% down on last year and have wiped out our grant [...]

Sean O’Brien reviews Tony Williams in Poetry Review

“A poet who figures in neither anthology (a matter of timing, I hope) is Tony Williams. His first book, The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street, has allusiveness in common with Byrne, but in Williams’s case this is drawn into the service of a distinctive imagination obsessed withplace and history and the [...]

Tuesday’s batch of four covers — courtesy of The Cover Factory

It has been another stiflingly hot day in the office! But here are a further four covers from The Cover Factory. I am a machine.

As ever, you can still follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on the hash tag #coverdesignblitz. You can also keep track of things on Flickr.

You [...]

Four more covers from The Cover Factory

Monday morning and up early again and in to the office to work on four more covers for the year ahead. Moving on to the fiction titles today.

As ever, you can still follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on the hash tag #coverdesignblitz. You can also keep track of [...]

Sunday’s roasting hot, but four more covers appear from The Cover Factory

Up early and in the office to work on four more covers for the year ahead. Another Crashaw prize winner among them.

You can still follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on the hash tag #coverdesignblitz. You can also keep track of things on Flickr.

You can also see [...]

Latest cover designs from The Cover Factory

Several days without sleep working on these new covers. Slowly getting to grips with InDesign. Spending a fortune on images. Hours of Photoshopping. Dreaming in images. Living in images …

You can still follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on the hash tag #coverdesignblitz.

You can also see more of [...]

Announcing the #BigSaltPrize to celebrate our 10th and 20th anniversary

As you know, Salt Magazine is twenty years old this year, and Salt’s publishing business is now ten years old. We’ve decided to put together a whopping prize to celebrate, and entering it means you will directly help Salt to continue to thrive during the recession.

How do I enter?

Get your summer [...]

The Cover Factory limbers up for a forward challenge

We’ve got over 50 covers to design in the next four weeks, all part of a concerted move to reposition Salt as a trade publisher and to refocus our efforts to work with the best bookstores in the UK.

We’ve begun work and you can follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on [...]

Salt final top 20 best-selling titles of the past financial year

Siân Hughes, The Missing Emily Benet, Shop Girl Diaries Luke Kennard, The Migraine Hotel Chris Agee, Next to Nothing Vanessa Gebbie, Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story Shaindel Beers, A Brief History of Time Andrew Taylor, The Unhaunting Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Nude John Keats & Chris Emery (Ed.), [...]