Thursday, 19 June 2014
Danielle Wood’s Mothers Grimm (A&U, September) explores the stereotypes of the ‘good’ and ‘wicked’ mother in her contemporary retelling of four Grimm’s fairytales. Bec Kavanagh spoke to the author.Do you...

Wednesday, 18 June 2014
What would you do to increase your sales and get your book in front of new fans? Would you let the readers decide what they’d pay for your book? Introducing...

Thursday, 15 May 2014
Brooke Davis’ debut novel Lost & Found (Hachette, July) weaves together the stories of seven-year-old Mille and eccentric octogenarians Agatha Pantha and Karl the Touch Typist. ‘It is full of...

Thursday, 15 May 2014
Jessie Cole inverts the ‘stranger comes to town’ narrative in her second novel Deeper Water (Fourth Estate). She spoke to reviewer Portia Lindsay.Deeper Water begins in a similar way to...

Monday, 12 May 2014
Indian-American author Vikram Chandra is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His latest book is Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software (Faber). What would you put on...

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
My first work of fiction, a petite collection of tiny (but hopefully powerful) stories, commonly referred to as ‘flash fictions’, is out in May with Inkerman & Blunt. Inkerman &...

Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Rachael Craw’s debut YA novel Spark (Walker Books, July) is about Evie, a 17-year-old super-soldier from a government experiment gone wrong. Dani Solomon spoke to the author.I loved the character...

Thursday, 17 April 2014
Scottish author Irvine Welsh is visiting Australia in May. His latest book The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (Jonathan Cape) is published in May. What would you put on a...

Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Justin Heazlewood—aka The Bedroom Philosopher—is the author of Funemployed (Affirm Press, June), a memoir-guidebook about working in the Australian arts industry. You can read a review of the book here....

Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Nicky Stevens, owner of Manning Valley Books in NSW, says her bookshop is in danger of closing this year. She believes the Australian publishing industry ‘is on self-destruct’, citing department store discounting and poor...

Monday, 31 March 2014
US author and illustrator Dav Pilkey has written numerous children’s books, including the ‘Captain Underpants’ series for young readers (Scholastic). He is visiting Australia in May.What are you reading right...

Monday, 31 March 2014
Eli Glasman is the author of The Boy’s Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew (Sleepers, July), a YA novel about growing up gay in Melbourne’s Orthodox Jewish community. He...

Monday, 31 March 2014
According to booksellers, ‘familiar’ and ‘safe’ titles work well for Mother’s Day. Publishers have responded with inspirational memoirs, stylish coffee-table books and rural romances. Brad Jefferies reports.Inspirational A number of inspirational...

Monday, 31 March 2014
While the margins on non-book items can be tempting, booksellers need to consider the hidden costs and the effort involved in visual merchandising, writes Richard Harling. He offers some tips...

Monday, 31 March 2014
New voices are vital to an exciting, engaged book industry, but finding readers for untested authors can also present a challenge. Angela Meyer examines some of the ways debut authors,...

Monday, 31 March 2014
Ingrid Ohlsson, publisher of nonfiction at Pan Macmillan and a longtime freelancer, was contemplating a career in clinical psychology when she was offered a plum management position. She shares her...

Monday, 31 March 2014
 Tucked away in the western suburbs of Melbourne is children’s bookshop Enchanted By Books. Owner Laura Nardo shares her bookseller’s diary.  Unlike other booksellers, I don’t have a background in sales,...

Monday, 31 March 2014
How does the children’s and YA book market in Australia compare with those overseas? Three children’s books experts currently based in the UK and the US share their observations. Marisa PintadoMarisa...

Monday, 31 March 2014
How useful is it to run extracts of new books in newspapers and magazines? Books+Publishing asked three publishers.Aviva Tuffield, publisher, Affirm Press:Extracts can be both a blessing and a curse. They...

Monday, 31 March 2014
A desire to create something beautiful, and to experiment with different methods and materials, have informed the careers of Australian picture book illustrators Dub Leffler, Andrew Plant, Marc Martin and...

Monday, 31 March 2014
Irish-British author Eimear McBride’s debut novel is A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Text). She is visiting Australia and New Zealand in May.What would you put on a shelf-talker for...

Monday, 31 March 2014
Once every four years the country gets excited about soccer, so there will be a glut of World Cup books on the shelves in the lead-up to the 2014 tournament...

Monday, 31 March 2014
Sometimes you come across a customer who wants something ‘a bit different’. Not your usual crime fiction, no rom-coms please. I’m happy to report that there are some absolute crackers...

Monday, 31 March 2014
While there are the usual blockbusters due out in May (Jim Butcher anyone?) there are also some titles you can slip onto your shelves to show your spec-fic readers that...