We really know the publishing industry from the inside, and understand exactly the challenges you face every day.

‘[Tutors were] all fantastic! Will be begging for more Marketability courses.’
Delegate from Palgrave Macmillan on Practical Publicity

‘Always approachable, well prepared and confident. You feel that you can ask anything and get an answer to your particular difficulties.’ Delegate from Collins Education

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Rachel Maund held senior marketing positions in academic, STM and professional publishing before setting up Marketability in 1999. She has been a tutor with the Publishing Training Centre since 1991, and now runs courses for Publishing Scotland and ALPSP in the UK, where she also occasionally turns up as guest lecturer on publishing courses at Oxford Brookes University and City University London. Beyond the UK she tutors for Clé (Irish Publishers’ Association), the Australian Publishers’ Association, CANIEM (Mexican Publishers’ Association), and the National Book Development Council in Singapore. She also conducts training regularly with publishers in Australia, Singapore and China.

Rachel is course director for Marketability Workshops and develops and delivers in-company tailored courses for companies of all shapes and sizes.

‘Excellent. Very down to earth with an incredible knowledge of the industry.’
Delegate from Sweet & Maxwell

Guest Tutors
Special guests from the industry share their secrets!

Shannon Moore has worked for Pearson Education for 13 years starting her career as a sales rep in the United States and then served as national academic Marketing Manager for business titles for seven years before moving with Pearson to London three years ago. Shannon is now Director of Academic Marketing, and also Scandinavian Sales Manager for Pearson Higher Education, Europe, Middle East, Africa. In her spare time Shannon enjoys travel and painting.

Shannon is guest tutor on our Academic Marketing Workshop.

Áine Duffy worked at Taylor and Francis as Publicity Manager for 8 years. She is now with the Royal College of Arts, as Head of Media Relations and Marketing, from which position she shares even more insights into the world of publicity with Marketability delegates.

Amelia Hill spent three years working for The Herald and Scotland on Sunday, before moving to the Observer in 2000. Now Social Affairs Correspondent, she also covers a wide variety of stories for the domestic news pages. When not working, Amelia fences and walks it all off on Hampstead Heath.

Áine and Amelia are both guest tutors on the Practical Publicity workshop.

Gill Davies has over 30 years experience in publishing and is the author of ‘Book Commissioning and Acquisition’, first published in 1995. Professor Gill Davies is Director of the MA in Book Publishing at the London College of Communication, the University of the Arts London, and a freelance trainer to the publishing industry. The success of her book has led to many invitations to give guest lectures to publishers around the world, including China, Russia, Mexico and India. Her two leisure interests are opera and horseracing, which she admits looks like an odd combination, but as she says, ‘We are what we are’.

Get inside editorial tips from Gill on our Essential Editorial Skills Workshop. Gill is also co-tutor on our workshop, Effective Working with Authors, exclusively available to tailor in-house.

Course Director and Principal Tutor

Josie Dixon was Publishing Director for the Academic Division at Palgrave Macmillan until 2003, and before that worked for 11 years in commissioning and managerial roles at Cambridge University Press. She is now a publishing consultant with a special interest in training, and has given workshops and lectures on the publishing industry internationally. When she is not working, she spends most of her time with two small boys on the rampage. For escapism, her greatest passions are singing Renaissance music, and all things Italian.

Josie is tutor on Profitable Commissioning.

Euan Hirst has worked in the book trade for 20 years mainly for Blackwell bookshops - jobs ranging from shop management to central marketing roles. He had a brief stint in publishing before running back to the comfort of what he describes as 'proper bookselling' at Blackwell's famous flagship shop in Oxford.
Euan is a guest tutor on Trade Marketing in the Real World..

Rebecca Jones has worked in Educational Publishing for 16 years, starting out as a sales rep in Barcelona, and now Head of Marketing at Letts Educational. During her career, she has devised successful marketing campaigns and managed marketing teams at Collins Educational and Oxford University Press. She still enjoys spending time in Spain.
Rebecca is tutor on our Schools Marketing Workshop .

Paul Crabtree has over 10 years’ experience in B2C and B2B direct marketing in roles at General Electric (GE) and Informa, and now at leading email marketing agency Adestra. He’s responsible for developing their brand in the UK and Europe, and working with clients such as Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor and Francis, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press to help them take their online marketing to the next level.
Paul is guest tutor on Copywriting for the Web.