{"id":1456,"date":"2018-07-30T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T01:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2018-07-30T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T01:29:15","slug":"small-press-network-announces-staff-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2018\/07\/30\/1456\/small-press-network-announces-staff-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Press Network announces staff changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the appointment of Tim Coronel as general manager. Coronel, who was previously communications manager for SPN, takes over from Matthia Dempsey, who has held the role since 2016 and will continue to coordinate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2018\/06\/21\/109956\/spn-announces-2018-conference-keynote\/\">this year\u2019s Independent Publishing Conference<\/a>, alongside secretary of the SPN board Michaela Skelly, who is responsible for conference sponsorships.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Matthia and I work well together and this has been a natural transition,\u2019 said Coronel. \u2018I\u2019m working on organising more professional development events to help our members and continuing to build the member benefits on offer. Meanwhile, Matthia and Michaela will deliver another must-attend conference.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>SPN chair Michael Webster thanked Matthia for her contribution to the association\u2019s development and success over the past few years, highlighting the growth in membership and services, including the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2016\/11\/16\/81131\/attendance-up-at-spn-conference-small-presses-remain-strong-in-nonfiction-reports-nielsen\/\">annual conference<\/a>, mentor program, Christmas catalogue and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2018\/06\/22\/110026\/asas-model-trade-publishing-agreement-now-available-to-spn-members\/\">revised ASA author contract<\/a>. \u2018She\u2019ll be missed, but we are delighted that\u2019s she\u2019s agreed to remain connected to SPN,\u2019 said Webster.<\/p>\n<p>SPN also announced that it has secured funding from the Copyright Agency\u2019s Cultural Fund for three more years, which will support the annual Independent Publishing Conference until 2021.<\/p>\n<h5><em>This news story first appeared in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2018\/07\/16\/111455\/staff-changes-at-the-small-press-network\/\">Books+Publishing<\/a><em> on 16 July 2018. <\/em>Books+Publishing <em>is Australia\u2019s leading source of print and digital news about the book industry, keeping <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/subscription\/\"><em>subscribers<\/em><\/a><em> up to date with the latest industry news, announcements, job advertisements, events, trends and more.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the appointment of Tim Coronel as general manager. Coronel, who was previously communications manager for SPN, takes over from Matthia Dempsey, who has held the role since 2016 and will continue to coordinate\u00a0this year\u2019s Independent Publishing Conference, alongside secretary of the SPN board Michaela Skelly, who is responsible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news","8":"category-newsletter"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}