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Melbourne City of Literature travel fund briefing 

Tuesday, 6 January 2015
The Melbourne City of Literature Travel Fund provides up to $3000 to support writers, editors, publishers, librarians, booksellers, or anyone else working in the Victorian literary sector.   Opportunities that may...

Footprint to distribute Broadview Press 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Agency: Broadview PressISBN prefix: 97815511; 97815548Old distributor: NewSouthNew distributor: Footprint BooksChangeover date: Effective immediately

Footprint to distribute Haus Publishing 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Agency: Haus PublishingISBN prefix: 978190Old distributor: Peribo Pty LtdNew Distributor: Footprint BooksChangeover date: Effective Immediately

Book Publicist for hire 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Publishers, distributors and authors, let me help your 2015 work-load and budget with outstanding publicity at an economical, negotiable rate. You get experience after 25 years of freelance work and...

Cooke resigns from New Holland 

Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Belinda Cooke has resigned as managing director of New Zealand publisher New Holland. (See news.)

Register Your Interest Now 

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Please visit www.melbourneprize.org to register your interest to receive information on the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015 and Awards. With a prize pool over $100,000, including a new award, all...

Walker Books Congratulates Bob Graham 

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Walker Books would like to congratulate Bob Graham for winning the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award in the Children’s Fiction category for Silver Buttons.

Hachette Australia Congratulates Shaun Tan 

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Hachette Australia is thrilled to congratulate Shaun Tan on being the joint winner in the Griffith University Children’s Book Award category of the Queensland Literary Awards, for the wonderful Rules of...

HarperCollins Congratulates Jackie French 

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
HarperCollinsPublishers is thrilled to congratulate children’s author and Australian Children’s Laureate Jackie French, whose extraordinary book Refuge has won the Children’s Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. Jackie is...

Steve Carroll wins PM’s Literary Award 

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
HarperCollins is thrilled to congratulate Steven Carroll on winning the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction for The World of Other People, the second novel in his brilliant TS Eliot...

HarperCollins to Publish Memoir by Rosie Batty 

Tuesday, 9 December 2014
HarperCollins is proud to announce that it has acquired world rights to Rosie’s Story, a memoir by Rosie Batty, with Bryce Corbett, to be published in late 2015.  In an...

Freelance Agent Maurice Peters 

Monday, 8 December 2014
Publishers and distributors looking to reduce fixed costs and increase Victorian sales in 2015. Contact freelance agent Maurice Peters, M: 0417 725 533, E: mauricepeters@bookknight.com.au

Social Club Books to Close 

Monday, 8 December 2014
After almost 32 years, Social Club Books is closing their business at the end of January 2015.A unique business in its time, we believe we have introduced many people to...

Footprint Books to Distribute Broadview Press 

Monday, 8 December 2014
Footprint wish to advise that effective immediately, Footprint now exclusively represent Broadview Press  (ISBN prefix 97815511, 97815548). Please contact their previous distributor, NewSouth Books for returns cut off dates.

Ruffino appointed MD of S&S 

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Dan Ruffino has been appointed managing director of Simon & Schuster Australia, replacing Lou Johnson, who announced her resignation in September. (See news.)

Meyer joins the Five Mile Press 

Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Author, editor and Literary Minded blogger Angela Meyer has been appointed commissioning editor at the Five Mile Press. (See news.)

Vale P D James 

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Allen & Unwin share Faber’s sadness at the loss of one of the world’s finest writers. We grew to know her through the great pleasure of bringing her later work...