Date: 11 February 2025
LONDON, Tuesday 11 February 2025: The London Ebook Honest (LBF) has at this time revealed the shortlist for the Trailblazers Awards 2025, celebrating ten business professionals of their first ten years of working within the business, who’re demonstrating creativity, dedication and innovation of their roles inside the guide business.

Now of their tenth 12 months, the awards are run by The London Ebook Honest, in partnership with the Publishers Affiliation (PA), the Society of Younger Publishers (SYP) and BookBrunch.
The Trailblazer Awards 2025 Shortlist:
- Adriano Noble, Assistant Editor, Dialogue Books (Hachette UK)
- Andi Michael Forsythe, Founder, Meetcute Ebook Pageant
- Elizabeth Kellingley, Accessibility Supervisor, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Glen Weatherhead, Writer, Indie Launch Radar
- Laura Dolan, Account Director, CPI Books UK
- Nancy Adimora, Founder and Publishing Director, OtherStories
- Rebecca Parkinson, Advertising Coordinator, Manchester College Press
- Sarah Alsop, Worldwide Gross sales and Advertising Affiliate, Princeton College Press
- Searsha Sadek, Founder and Chief Product Officer, Shimmr AI
- Selina Brown, CEO and Founder, Black British Ebook Pageant
Adam Ridgway, Director of The London Ebook Honest, stated: “We’re so excited to announce this 12 months’s Trailblazers Awards shortlist. This award celebrates the following technology of execs within the guide business. Everybody on the shortlist embodies the qualities of enthusiasm, creativity, innovation, and fervour which might be very important in serving to our business to proceed to flourish. Congratulations to the shortlisted Trailblazers and we’re so wanting ahead to saying the winners at The London Ebook Honest 2025.”
This 12 months’s Trailblazers will likely be promoted throughout The London Ebook Honest’s social media channels and web site, in addition to in BookBrunch. Every winner will obtain a coveted Trailblazer trophy together with a complimentary ticket to this 12 months’s and subsequent 12 months’s honest, a piece placement/shadowing alternative with the Publishers Affiliation, membership to the Society of Younger Publishers, and a free subscription to BookBrunch.
The general winners will likely be chosen by a judging panel and introduced on Tuesday 11th March at 11:00am on the Focus Theatre, on the primary day of The London Ebook Honest. Extra info out there right here.
The London Ebook Honest (LBF) is the world’s largest spring guide commerce and publishing occasion and can return to its residence at Olympia London from 11 – 13 March 2025. Customer registration is now open, at this hyperlink.
For queries concerning the Trailblazers Awards, please contact Anna Zanetti at Midas: anna.zanetti@midas-group.com +44 (0)20 7361 7860