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Exisle to distribute Callisto Media 

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Publisher: Callisto Media (including Rockridge Press,Mendocino Press, Hayward Press and Drakes Press)ISBN prefix: 978-0-615-59880-2; 978-1-62315; 978-1-939754Old distributor: noneNew distributor: ExisleChangeover date: 31/05/14

Holland-Batt appointed poetry editor at ‘Island’ 

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Sarah Holland-Batt has been appointed poetry editor at Island. Holland-Batt is a lecturer in creative writing and literary studies at Queensland University of Technology and the author of the poetry...

Bloomsbury congratulates James Ley 

Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Bloomsbury would like to congratulate James Ley, winner of the 2014 Pascall Prize for Criticism, awarded at the Sydney Writers’ Festival last Friday. James’s literary criticism has appeared in many...

Hillary Clinton memoir published 10th June 2014 

Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Hillary Clinton’s memoir, Hard Choices, is published globally on 10/6/14. Hard Choices is Hillary Clinton’s personal chronicle of her years at the centre of world events and shows how those...

Society of Editors (NSW): blurbs and publicity workshop 

Monday, 26 May 2014
The Society of Editors (NSW) will hold a professional development workshop on 21 June with freelance editor Susan Keogh on writing effective blurbs and publicity material. Keogh will share techniques to produce more...

Collins appointed to SWF board 

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has appointed Peter Collins to the festival’s board of directors. In a statement announcing Collins’ appointment, the festival said Peter Shergold and Margie Seale ‘will be...

Australian Book Designers Association open for membership 

Tuesday, 20 May 2014
The newly-formed Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) is now open for individual and company membership. ABDA exists to support Australian book designers, including hosting the national annual book design awards,...

MUP titles back in stock 

Monday, 19 May 2014
MUP would like to advise booksellers that due to popular demand: Notebooks by Betty Churcher (2011) has been reprinted and is back in stock   Notebooks: ISBN 9780522858426 Print RRP $44.99 Australian...

Attention Publishers and Distributors 

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Problem reducing fixed costs and wishing to increase your Victorian sales? The solution may be to engage the services of freelance sales agent Maurice Peters at Bookknight agencies. Mob. 0417...

Assistant editor (full-time), Books+Publishing, Melbourne

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Books+Publishing is looking for an assistant editor to join its publishing team.The successful candidate will work closely with the editor-in-chief and news editor. His or her responsibilities will include: Researching,...