Useful links

The following organisations and individuals offer training, support and/or advice about different areas of publishing or being an author. Please note that the PTC is not responsible for content on other websites.

*Denotes a PTC partner organisation.

Advice and support

• BookCareers 
• The Book Trade Charity (BTBS) 
• Louise Harnby 
• The Printing Charity*

Corporate membership organisations

• Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)*
• Independent Publishers Guild (IPG)*
• International Publishers Association (IPA)*
• The Publishers Association (PA)*
• Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS)

Individual membership organisations

• Association for Cultural Enterprises (ACE)*
• BookMachine 
• Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading 
• Publishing Ireland* 
• Publishing Scotland*
• Society of Indexers*
• The Society of Young Publishers*

Working in publishing

• LDN Apprenticeships*
• Living Wage Foundation 
• National Careers Service 
• National Occupational Standards 
• The Publishing Post
• Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 

Writing for a living

• Irish Writers Centre*
• The Literary Consultancy*
• The Society of Authors 
• Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook