What we offer our clients

• A highly experienced sales team – our 5 representatives each average 30 years plus experience in the trade.
• National representation in the UK and Ireland – we visit independent bookshops, gift shops, art galleries, museums and other niche retail outlets.
• Close liaison with bookshop, galleries and museum buyers to maximise opportunities for exhibition tie-ins; events and signing sessions.
• Dedicated Key Account Manager responsible for Waterstones involving day-to-day liaison work with individual buyers.
• Dedicated Key Account Managers for Gardners, WHSmith and Bookspeed.
• Dedicated Key Account Manager for library and school suppliers
• Regular liaison with all major on-line accounts – sharing new title information with individual buyers and sharing special seasonal/themed promotions with our publishers.
• Regular cycle of targeted bookshop calls when our dedicated sales team visit accounts to ‘hand-sell’ titles.
• General advice on publication schedules, pricing, and promotional campaigns.
• Full-time managed office for all your general enquiries and access to sales team.

What we expect of you

• An accessible point of contact who is able to make key decisions and respond quickly to requests for information.
• Accurate feed of ADVANCED information about new titles (we ask for a six months lead in time).
• Professionally prepared AIs that provide information for each new title.
• Regular publicity up-dates telling us about events that authors are attending, signing sessions, newspaper and other media articles, interviews etc.
• To keep in regular contact with us – by phone or email so we have a good handle on all your activities and future plans.

How we work together

We believe in working together as a team and we invest a lot of time in developing strong relationships with our publishers. We represent a broad range of publishers and this means we have a large selection of interesting and varied books to bring to market. We value this diversity and are always mindful of our portfolio when taking on new lists.

If you are interested in what we do and would like more information about how our business model works then please get in touch so that we can talk more about your requirements and what we might be able to do for you. Our Sales Director Jim Sheehan would be pleased to have an initial conversation with you. Jim is contactable at jim@signaturebooksuk.com