The Publishers' Publicity Circle enables book publicists from publishing houses and PR agencies to meet and share info. Tweets by the committee.

The penultimate award of the evening is the @Waterstones Hardback Fiction Award which goes to @PublicityBooks for her sensational campaign for Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell. Amazing work George! A memorable campaign in lockdown! @midaspr @TinderPress @headlinepg #PPCAwards21
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The @waterstones award for hardback fiction goes to @gigicroft for Sorrow and Bliss
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Crime and Thriller is a new PPC award, and the winner of the Best Crime and Thriller Campaign sponsored by @BloodyScotland is... dun, dun, duuuun... @JenRHarlow for her incredible campaign for The Guest List by @lucyfoleytweets @HarperFiction #PPCAwards21
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We are delighted to announce the winner of the Q3 Award judged by @CaroSanderson The winner is.... @millieseaward for her outstanding campaign for The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (@dialoguebooks) Huge congratulations Millie!
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The award for Best Celebrity Book Campaign sponsored by @ConnellMPA goes to @MeadOlivia and @chloedavies2011 and their campaign for The Thursday Murder Club by @richardosman @PenguinUKBooks - one of the biggest books of 2020! Unmissable work from Olivia and Chloe #PPCAwards21
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The @thebookseller Award for Hardback Non Fiction is an incredibly tough award to judge but the award this year goes to @ellakroftpatel for her work on Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad, an important and superbly executed campaign. Well done Ella! @QuercusBooks #PPCAwards21
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We now have the @TOTPofficial Magazine award for Best Children's and YA Celebrity Campaign! The winner of this award is @emilyhopeth and @ElaineEgan_ for their campaign for Break the Mould by Sinead Burke! Huge congrats to you both! @HachetteKids @HachetteIre #PPCAwards21
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The @NetGalley award for Paperback Original Campaign goes to @alicemaydewing for her sensational campaign for Breasts and Eggs by by Mieko Kawakami @picadorbooks Fantastic work Alice, huge congrats! #PPCAwards21
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The Children's Book Award sponsored by the Daily Mail is our next award and the winner is... @BethLouC for her outstanding work on While We Can’t Hug by Eoin McLaughlin @FaberChildrens - great stuff Bethany! If we were all together you'd be getting lots of hugs! #PPCAwards21
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The last award of the evening is the @jojames100 Award for best newcomer. Such was the standard we have TWO winners this year! @niamh_anderson for her Bread Therapy campaign and @ellakroftpatel for Me & White Supremacy. Huge congrats both! @HodderBooks @QuercusBooks #PPCAwards21
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Next up is the @yalc_uk award for Best YA Campaign! The winner is @TinaMories for her tremendous work on Punching the Air by Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi! Well done Tina - hope all your colleagues @HarperCollinsCh are punching the air for your fantastic win! #PPCAwards21
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The award for Best YA Campaign goes to Katarina Jovanic for The Places I’ve Cried in Public by @holly_bourneYA #PPCAwards
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The winner for the Mo Siewcharran Award for Best Debut Campaign is Maura Wilding and Leanne Oliver for Queenie by @CandiceC_W #PPCAwards
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The first award of the evening is for the Sports Book Campaign and the winners are @MauraWilding and @alexxlayt for their magnifique campaign for Arsene Wenger's My Life in Red and White, published by @orionbooks Bien joué! #PPCAwards21
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The Best Generic Campaign is won by Paul Black and @PublicityShona for Elmer’s 30th Anniversary #PPCAwards
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The winner of the Hardback Non-Fiction Award is @LucieTwiggs for Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez #PPCAwards
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The @edbookfest award for Best Generic Campaign goes to @annavridley of @PenguinUKBooks for her wonderful 'A Year of @BernardineEvari' campaign. Huge congrats Anna! #PPCAwards21
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📢 Award Announcement!📢 We are delighted to announce the winner of the best publicity campaign for Q2 as chosen by @Rosie_B_T The winner is @AnnaLRedman for her unmissable and brilliant campaign for Lowborn by @ThatKerryHudson @ChattoBooks Huge congratulations Anna! 🎉🏆
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Always a highly competitive award - the @NielsenBook Mo Siewcharran Award for Best Debut Campaign - and this year it goes to @ed_pr @akAnnabelle @Thi_Dinh @sericawright for their astonishing and memorable campaign for Poor by Caleb Femi @PenguinUKBooks #PPCAwards21
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And the winner of the @NielsenBook award for Best Debut Campaign goes to @alisonbarrow for LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY! Congrats!!
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Well done to all the winners of the #PPCAwards21 and to all the shortlisted publicists. Amazing campaigns in a difficult year! Many thanks to the judges headed by @CaroSanderson and thank you to everyone for coming tonight. Hope to see you all in person next year!
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A great way to kick off the week is to announce the winner of our Q1 Award! And the winner, chosen by our judge @CaroSanderson is... 🥁 @drewjerrison and his outstanding campaign for Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters! @serpentstail Huge congratulations Drew!
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The best debut campaign is won by Drew Jerrison for Detransition, Baby
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All of us at the Publishers Publicity Circle are devastated at the news of Sophie Christopher’s sudden death. Sophie was a wonderful publicist who was loved and respected across the publishing world. Our thoughts are with Sophie’s family and friends and everyone @TransworldBooks
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The best campaign sponsored by @BloodyScotland for Crime and Thriller is Drew Jerrison for The Last House on Needless Street
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Next up is the PPC Cookery Book Award and the campaign with the special sauce is The Batch Lady by Suzanne Mulholland - huge congrats @bookbellereads! A fantastic campaign @HQstories #PPCAwards21
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We’re delighted to be joining together with @thebookseller & @BMSoc for this virtual event on 20th April. It will cover all things comms within our current, very different, industry landscape and provide a brilliant platform for discussion & ideas 💡
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The @MailOnline Award for Children's Book campaign goes to @aem26, @RandomPublicist & @JessFarrugiaPR for The Shepherd's Crown!
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Huge congratulations to @NaomiMantin who has won our 3rd quarterly award for her outstanding campaign for SLAY IN YOUR LANE. Judge Sandra Taylor said: 'Her commitment, strategic thinking & impactful long term planning is more than deserving of this award.' publisherspublicitycircle.co…
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.@thebookseller Award for Hardback Non-Fiction went to @publicityhannah for THE SECRET BARRISTER by Anonymous
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The winner for the Hardback Fiction Award is Fran Owen Mari Yamakazi and Alison Davies for The Testaments #PPCAwards
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And here are all of our lovely winners! Well done everyone! See you next year...
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The Award for Best Newcomer goes to @gabrielaquattro for War Doctor #PPCAwards
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The winner of the @GoldsboroBooks Hardback Fiction Award is @alisonbarrow, for The Girl on the Train!
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Winner of the journalist of the year is Alison Finch!
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In an Autumn that was absolutely jampacked with books, Q4 in 2020 saw some incredible publicity campaigns. The winner of our Q4 award is @PoppyN and @Jane54321 for their brilliant campaign for @BarackObama 's A Promised Land - huge congrats Poppy and Jane! @VikingBooksUK
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We've just announced our Q4 Awards winner: an enormous round of applause to @harrietvenn and @MauraWilding for their fantastic campaign for FEMINISTS DON'T WEAR PINK (And Other Lies) publisherspublicitycircle.co……. Thank you to @aliceokbooks for judging!
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Finally, for the PR stars of tomorrow, the Newcomer Award shortlistees were @niamh_anderson @ellamharold @Myrto_Kalav @readeatretreat @ellakroftpatel @lydiaspooner @ellenturner_ @antoniawhitton
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The @booksaremybag award for Best Lifestyle, Gift, and Humour campaign goes to... @alicefherbert for her superb campaign for Word Perfect by Susie Dent which was a Christmas cracker last year. Well done Alice! @johnmurrays #PPCAwards21
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Winners of the Q2 Award are @FrancescaPear and @ElaineEgan_ for their tremendous work on @NaoiseDolan‘s debut Exciting Times (@orionbooks/@HachetteIre) Huge congrats to Francesca and Elaine especially for delivering a stellar campaign as we went into lockdown
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The winner of best lifestyle and humour campaign sponsored by @booksaremybag is Aidan O’Neill and Mia Quibell-Smith for Four Thousand Weeks
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PPC members, check your inboxes! The shortlist for our annual awards has been announced. Huge congratulations to all shortlistees!
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Winner of the Q1 Award is @ellapatel__ for her fantastic and inspiring campaign for Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad (@QuercusBooks) huge congrats to Ella!
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PPC Journalist of the Year is @schmotime from @BBCRadio2!
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Winner of the Cookery Book Award is Jane’s Patisserie by Alice King of @EburyPublishing
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The award for best Children’s and YA Celebrity Campaign is You Are A Champion from Jill Hardacre and Amber Ivatt
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Our first #commschat Q&A will start today 12-1pm. This is a chance for all you publicists out there to ask questions about the challenges you're facing during this time. Post your questions to @publicitycircle using the hashtag #commschat and we'll do our very best to help!
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The winner of the best generic campaign sponsored by @edbookfest is Elmer Pride by Paul Black
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Winner of PPC Events Manager of the Year was @RolandGulliver from @edbookfest #ppcawards
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Best campaign for best paperback original campaign is Joe Thomas for The Cancer Ladies Running Club
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The best newcomer award sponsored by @jojames100 goes to @niamh_anderson for The Lost Storyteller
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The Mo Siewcharran Award for Best Debut Campaign went to @louisecc and @LucieTwiggs for their campaign for THE MERMAID AND MRS HANCOCK by Imogen Hermes Gower.
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Huge congratulations to all the shortlisted publicists for the Publicity Campaign of the Year award! In a year like no other these campaigns were truly outstanding #Nibbies @thebookseller
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The Children’s Book Award is won by Chloe Parkinson for Look Up! #PPCAwards
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The @NielsenBook Award for Second Edition Paperback goes to @SamEades for The Taxidermist's Daughter!
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The winner for the Best Celebrity Campaign is @Yassa_Yassa and @alicefherbert for Tall Tales and Wee Stories by Billy Connolly #PPCAwards
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The winner of the Cookery Book Award is Jess Duffy for Tim Can Cook #PPCAwards
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The @LondonBookFair Award for Hardback Celebrity campaign goes to @StephiElise & @KiriGillespie for All I Know!
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Highly commended for Q2 is @millieseaward’s campaign for Rainbow Milk (@dialoguebooks) by Paul Mendez. Bea Carvalho said ‘A passionate and bold strategy ensured a robust framework for this title to survive the tides of 2020, and will stand him in good stead for his inward career’
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The award for Best Lifestyle, Gift and Humour Campaign is Katherine Macpherson for Period Power #PPCAwards
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Winner of the best sports book campaign is Why We Kneel, How We Rise by Sabah Khan @simonschusterPR
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Well done to @EmmaFinnigan & @charlottebush2 - Highly Commended for Go Set A Watchman in Hardback Fiction.
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The @booksaremybag award for Hardback Non-Fiction went to @cerimax @vintagebooks for When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi #ppcawards
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The best Celebrity Campaign goes to Jess Barrett and Rebecca McCarthy for The Storyteller
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Today, we announced the PPC annual award shortlists. Congrats to all the shortlisted publicists! If you missed the shortlists, here they are...
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PPC Librarian of the Year is a tie! Well done to both @Hill_libraries AND @OrkneyLibrary!
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Huge congratulations to all the shortlisted publicists/campaigns!
"I’m thrilled to see such exciting and agenda-setting campaigns on our shortlist", this year's @publicitycircle Awards shortlists have been revealed, with campaigns for titles by Sally Rooney and Dave Grohl in the running! Read more: bit.ly/3H6mCYV
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Winner of the events organiser of the year is @BobMcDev
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The Children's Award is always highly contested, and this year did not disappoint with great campaigns from @BethLouC @beatricemay @eggnoggy91 @becmason26 Sian Taylor @harrietvenn @CParkinsonPR @akAnnabelle
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Huge congratulations to @annavridley for her wonderful The Year of Bernardine Evaristo campaign which has won Publicity Campaign of the Year at the #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies
Picking up the Publicity Campaign of the Year award this year, for The Year of Bernardine Evaristo, congratulations to @PenguinUKBooks' @annavridley, and thanks to our presenter @Emmabarnett! @publicitycircle #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies
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The @NetGalley award for a Generic Campaign went to @LizzieMastersUK @QuercusBooks for Enid Blyton For Grown Ups by Bruno Vincent #ppcawards
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📣The PPC are thrilled to announce the fifth year of its mentoring scheme, open to publicists of all levels and will start in January 2021 📣   It’s a wonderful opportunity as we have brilliant mentors taking part. Deadline is 5:30pm 4th Dec, details here: publisherspublicitycircle.co…
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Such was the standard, there are 2 highly commended campaigns from @CaroSanderson @TinaMories for The Last Bear by Hannah Gold & Levi Pinfold @HarperCollinsCh - ‘Terrific’ @_FrancescaBanks for Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novel The Duke & I @LittleBrownUK - ‘Extremely canny’ 🏆
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The @Foyles Cookery Book Award went to @sophiecalder and @MeganCarver for their campaign for BOSH! by Henry Firth and Ian Theasby.
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Massive congratulations to @beatricemay for winning the @MailOnline Award for Best Children’s Book Campaign for Impossible Things. #PPCAwards24
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We are delighted to announce the winner for the best publicity campaign of Q1 as chosen by @CaroSanderson The winner is.... @HannahVRoss and Valentina Zanca of @ProfileBooks for their “outstanding championing” of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshanna Zuboff
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And the winner of the @Waterstones Hardback Non-Fiction award is @JazLCampbell for Reasons to Stay Alive!
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The @yalc_uk Award for Best YA Campaign was won by @boypublicist for his campaign for MISFIT by Charli Howard.
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New job posting📢📚📢 @HodderBooks are looking for a publicity assistant to join their team, a fantastic entry level role! Salary: £26,500 (+bonus, +benefits) Application deadline: Friday 1st September Further details: publisherspublicitycircle.co…
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The @Waterstones Hardback Fiction Award was won by @mariagluc for NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney. Congratulations also to @Ros_Ellis who was highly commended for her camapaign for CIRCE by Madeline Miller
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The committee are ready for you! We can’t wait to celebrate all the fantastic publicists across the industry at tonight’s #PPCAwards24. Good luck everyone!
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The @yalc_uk for best YA campaign is for The Gilded Ones by Katarina Jovanovic
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Highly commended for Q1 was @PhilippaCotton and her campaign for A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (@BloomsburyBooks) with judge @CaroSanderson saying ‘A wide ranging and canny campaign resulting in Allende’s first ever UK bestseller’ Well done Philippa!
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The @NetGalley Award for Generic Campaign goes to @Ells85 for Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups!
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The hardback non fiction award sponsored by @thebookseller goes to Elenor Lawrence for The Vaxxers
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.@joe_thomas25 won the Best Newcomer Award, sponsored by Jo James, for his campaign for THE PLUS ONE by Sophia Money-Coutts.
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Another exceptional category, The Mo Siewcharran Award for Best Debut campaign. Great work from @emiliechambs @ed_pr @akAnnabelle @sericawright @Thi_Dinh @Ros_Ellis @CamillaElworthy @FrancescaPear @ElaineEgan_ @joshsm_th @Connor__Hutch @joe_thomas25
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the winner of the award for a Best Academic Campaign is Katie Lewis for Chaucer #PPCAwards
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The @First_News award for Best Children’s and YA Celebrity Campaign goes to @ellyouseewhy ! Hugest congrats!
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The @cheltfestivals Debut Campaign award went to @bisscakes @HarperFiction for The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by @JoannaCannon #ppcawards
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We currently have some amazing jobs: @Waterstones are looking for an Events Coordinator, @headlinepg are looking for a Publicity Director, @PenguinUKBooks are lookig for a Campaigns/Senior Campaigns Manager & @BookPublicistUK are looking for a publicist! publisherspublicitycircle.co…
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And, last but not least! The @BAbooksellers Best Newcomer Award goes to @Yassa_Yassa for The Loney!
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PPC members, check your inboxes! The annual awards shortlist has been announced. A HUGE congratulations to all publicists shortlisted!
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Best Sports Book Campaign sponsored by @TheSun went to @greenkatie @panmacmillan for Watching The Wheels by @HillF1 #ppcawards
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The @thebookseller Award for Paperback Original campaign goes to @Kirsteenastor for I Let You Go!
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