Why some genres suffer more from slashed book pages
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
A decline in Australian newspapers’ literary pages and an increase in review-sharing between Fairfax’s mastheads the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times have significantly reduced the number...
Getting cosy at Books Plus in Bathurst
Friday, 22 February 2013
While Loani Prior's latest book How Tea Cosies Changed the World (Murdoch) has attracted the attention of the Diagram Prize for its delightfully odd title, back in 2010 Andrew Wrathall...
Character concerns: Ashley Hay on ‘The Railwayman’s Wife’
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Ashley Hay’s second novel, after The Body in the Clouds, follows the lives of several characters in a NSW coastal town, including a doctor returned from the horrors of the...
On tour: Meet the author Anne de Courcy
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
UK journalist and author Anne de Courcy is travelling to the Perth Writers Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week in February and March. Her latest book is The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting...
On tour: Meet the author Tom Holland
Monday, 18 February 2013
British novelist and historian Tom Holland is travelling to the Perth Writers Festival, Adelaide Writers’ Week, Canberra and Sydney in February and March. His latest book is In the Shadow of...
‘A dark love letter to Iceland’: Hannah Kent on ‘Burial Rites’
Friday, 8 February 2013
Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (Picador, May) plunges the reader into the remotest corner of 19th-century Iceland in her story of the last woman to be beheaded in that country. Andrea...
The online experience: children’s bookselling strategies
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
With a number of children’s bookstores now selling online, Portia Lindsay asks several booksellers what works best on the web. Buying a children’s book is often a personal and a...
Writing for Fun: Andy Griffiths on ‘Once Upon a Slime’
Monday, 4 February 2013
In his new book Once Upon a Slime: 45 Fun Ways to Get Writing … Fast! (Pan Macmillan, April) Andy Griffiths gives advice to inspire young writers. The author spoke...
Telling Tales: Julie Hunt on ‘Song for a Scarlet Runner’
Friday, 1 February 2013
Julie Hunt has created a thrilling tale of life on the run in Song for a Scarlet Runner (A&U, April). The author spoke to Jarrah Moore. You can read Moore’s review...
On tour: Meet the author Gayle Forman
Friday, 1 February 2013
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? ‘Just One Day is a Trojan Horse novel. It trots up to you as a love story between a straight-laced...
Talkback: A preference for digital or printed proofs?
Friday, 1 February 2013
Do you prefer to receive digital or printed proofs? Books+Publishing asked four booksellers. Mandy Macky, owner, Dymocks Adelaide While all of us read on ereaders from time to time, our...
Life, continued: Anna Goldsworthy on ‘Welcome to Your New Life’
Friday, 1 February 2013
In her second memoir, Anna Goldsworthy explores her experience of motherhood, including an irrational fear of losing her newborn down a composting toilet. Joanne Shiells spoke to the author. What...
Murder they wrote: Marion Roberts and Kim Kane on ‘Cry Blue Murder’
Friday, 1 February 2013
Marion Roberts and Kim Kane collaborated on the YA thriller Cry Blue Murder (UQP, May). They spoke to Meredith Lewin. Cry Blue Murder is a contemporary YA thriller that comes...
A year in children’s books: publishers’ top junior picks for 2013
Friday, 1 February 2013
From a Pride and Prejudice-inspired picture book set in an Australian farmyard to a YA thriller that explores the dangers of online communication, publishers tell us their top children’s and...
A serious lack: YA books with Indigenous characters
Friday, 1 February 2013
Why are there so few YA books with Indigenous characters, asks Danielle Binks. Last year I read two wonderful Australian YA books, written by Indigenous authors and featuring Aboriginal protagonists....
Diversity in fantasy: Kylie Chan on ‘Dark Serpent’
Friday, 1 February 2013
Dark Serpent (HarperVoyager, May) is the first book in Kylie Chan’s ‘Celestial Battle’ trilogy, which combines martial arts and magic, and the seventh book in an ongoing story that began...
A survival story: Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch
Friday, 1 February 2013
After its premises and all of its stock were destroyed in the February 2011 earthquake, the Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch has rebuilt outside of the city centre, and flourished. Owner...
Doin’ it for the kids: festival programming for younger readers
Friday, 1 February 2013
Most Australian writers’ festivals offer some children’s events, usually as part of a discrete schools’ program. Kate Blackwood spoke to several festival programmers to get their thoughts on running events...
Adele Walsh: YA through a US lens
Friday, 1 February 2013
The Centre for Youth Literature’s Adele Walsh travelled to YALSA’s YA Lit Symposium in Missouri and YALLFest in South Carolina last year with the hope of picking up some ideas...
Finding the man: Cory Taylor on ‘My Beautiful Enemy’
Friday, 1 February 2013
In her second novel, Cory Taylor worked hard to capture the voice of her protagonist, a young soldier infatuated with a Japanese youth in an internment camp in regional Victoria...
Anne Beilby: The rights direction
Friday, 1 February 2013
Anne Beilby has been rights manager at Text Publishing since the days when pitch letters were sent by fax. She shares her career journey. I studied anthropology, literature and languages...
On tour: Meet the author Lauren Beukes
Friday, 1 February 2013
Lauren Beukes is travelling to Australia in May. Her latest book is The Shining Girls (HarperCollins). What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? A time-travelling serial killer is unstoppable...
Ebooks in Oz: An update
Friday, 1 February 2013
In September and October 2012, Bowker Market Research conducted its second Global eBook Monitor survey, repeating its January 2012 survey in Australia, India, the UK and the US, and adding...
Your store: Notions Unlimited promotes on YouTube
Friday, 1 February 2013
Notions Unlimited Bookshop in the beachside suburb of Chelsea, Victoria, has recently created three YouTube videos to promote its store and reach out to members of its local community. One...
Designing in a digital world
Friday, 1 February 2013
Now that ebooks have established themselves in the market, are they changing the way designers work? Drew Turney reports. One of the more ambitious ebook projects of the past year has...
The proof is in the printing: Print-on-demand and short-run digital
Friday, 1 February 2013
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of print-on-demand (POD) and short-run digital printing. Eloise Keating asked several publishers to share recent examples of their benefits. Black Inc.’s US choice for POD...
Tree change: Melissa Lucashenko on ‘Mullumbimby’
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Melissa Lucashenko’s novel Mullumbimby (UQP) is the story of one woman’s attempt to build a new life in country Australia. Reviewer Max Oliver describes it as ‘a modern tale of...
‘A backwater sales channel’: PwC on the impact of social media on online retailing
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
In January 2013, PwC published a report called ‘Demystifying the online shopper: 10 myths of multichannel retailing’, based on its annual global survey of online shoppers. In 2012 this survey...
Christmas cracker: Robert Gott on ‘The Holiday Murders’
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Described as a compelling page-turner that is also ‘a little grisly’, Robert Gott’s novel The Holiday Murders (Scribe) follows a 1943 homicide investigation through the streets of Melbourne. The author...
Textual healing: Forthcoming mind-body-spirit titles
Thursday, 13 December 2012
From supergrains to creative seeds, Shannon Wood rounds up forthcoming titles in the mind-body-spirit genre. Shape up While weight-loss titles are popular all year round, summer is the peak time...
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