If you missed our Building Reader Communities Panel on 2nd March 2016, or want to revisit the discussion, wise words and valuable insights from our speakers can be found below. (You can also read a short report on the key insights we took from the event here)

Sci-Fi author Kate Russell shares her experience of community building and gives her 5 rules for building a digital presence

‘It takes 3 years to establish a community’:  Auriol Bishop, Creative Director of Hodder & Stoughton, and writer Alex Pheby discuss their experiences in publishing and as co-directors of the Greenwich Book Festival.

‘Community is a tangible business asset’: Alexis Kennedy, Creative Director of Failbetter Games.

‘Reading communities are the public & the private sphere colliding’ Meike Ziervogel on building a community around Peirene Press.

Panel discussion on building communities in publishing, interactive fiction and games