Hardie Grant to distribute new cookbook series by Noma chef René Redzepi
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Hardie Grant has signed a deal with US publisher Artisan for Australian distribution of a new three-book series by the founder and head chef of Copenhagen restaurant Noma, René Redzepi....
Print-digital ratio stable at 80-20, says PRH CEO
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle has highlighted the stability of the global publishing market at the opening press conference for the Frankfurt Book Fair, reports Publishers Weekly. Dohle said...
Scribe pre-empts UK and Commonwealth rights for ‘major book about honesty’ from US podcaster
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom has pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights to a nonfiction book by US podcaster Anna Sale, creator and presenter of the podcast ‘Death, Sex and Money’, just...
HGE sells UK rights to ‘Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds’
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Australia and Canada) to Jeremy Lachlan’s middle-grade adventure novel Jane Doe and the Cradle of All Worlds in a...
Arnold Zable wins literature fellowship for ‘outstanding, established artists’
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Arnold Zable has been awarded the prestigious Australia Council Fellowship for literature, which is presented to ‘outstanding, established artists’ to support creative activity and professional development. Zable is the author...
Introducing Spinifex Press
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Founded in 1991, Melbourne-based Spinifex Press publishes innovative and controversial feminist books and ebooks with an optimistic edge. Spinifex Press was also one of the first small publishers in Australia...
‘Force of Nature’, ‘The Barefoot Investor’ top the Australian charts
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Australian fiction bestsellers: September Force of Nature, the follow-up to Jane Harper’s bestselling crime-fiction debut The Dry, is at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for September. Its...
Frankfurt underway; the unpublished manuscript award that has launched multiple bestsellers
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
The Frankfurt Book Fair is now well underway, and if you’re at the fair you should have received a copy of our print magazine Think Australian in the Wednesday edition...
‘Page-turning small-town mystery’ sold into nine territories
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Affirm Press has sold the rights to Christian White’s ‘page-turning small-town mystery’ The Nowhere Child, previously called Decay Theory, into nine overseas territories. White’s novel won this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
‘It’s not enough to secure a deal on a small or average advance. We need to work closely with the foreign publishers to secure publicity and marketing to lead to...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean (Mira Robertson) to Wavesound. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to Buddhism for the...
Davis appointed COO of Hardie Grant
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Andrew Davis, former deputy CEO Asia Pacific at Penguin Random House and former vice president of the Australian Publishers Association, has joined Hardie Grant as its chief operating officer. The...
Finch Publishing celebrates 25th Anniversary
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Finch Publishing is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Founder Rex Finch said he is ‘pleased (and slightly amazed)’ to be celebrating the occasion. The company launched in 1992. Finch,...
Tynan wins CHASS Australia Book Prize 2017 for ‘Atomic Thunder’
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Elizabeth Tynan has won the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ (CHASS) 2017 Australia Book Prize, for her book Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story (NewSouth). Tynan’s book was...
Victorian library invests in books for people with dyslexia
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Mitchell Shire Council in Victoria has invested $5000 in books for people with dyslexia, in response to community feedback, reports the ABC. The books are designed in a font called...
NewSouth congratulates Elizabeth Tynan for winning the 2017 CHASS Australia Book Prize
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
We’re thrilled to congratulate Elizabeth Tynan for Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story, which received the 2017 CHASS Australia Book Prize. The prize is awarded to a nonfiction book the judges...
PRH to publish ‘a heartfelt tribute’ to Australian women
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced it will publish Shout Out to the Girls: A Celebration of Awesome Australian Women, a hardcover children’s nonfiction book dedicated to notable Australian...
Cornerstone to publish E L James’ retelling of ‘Fifty Shades Darker’
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Cornerstone has acquired UK and Commonwealth (ex Canada) rights to E L James’ Darker, a retelling of Fifty Shades Darker from the perspective of the character Christian Grey. Cornerstone will...
Echo to publish Jabour’s debut novel ‘The Way Things Should Be’
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Bonnier Publishing Australia’s Echo imprint will publish Guardian Australia journalist Bridie Jabour’s debut novel in May 2018. The Way Things Should Be centres on four adult siblings in the lead-up to...
RM Marketing Services: Helping publishers do what they do best
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
As advertised recently, Rachael McDiarmid has returned to RM Marketing Services (www.rmmarketingservices.com) on a full-time basis. RMMS provides a suite of sales, marketing, promotions and communications services to the book...
Walker Books acquires new series from Cassandra Clare: ‘Ghosts of the Shadow Market’
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Walker Books Australia has announced the acquisition of Ghosts of the Shadow Market, a collection of ten short stories, co-written with Maureen Johnson, Robin Wasserman, Sarah Rees Brennan and Kelly...
Andrew Davis—Chief Operating Officer appointment Hardie Grant
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Andrew Davis, formerly Deputy CEO Asia Pacific at Penguin Random House and APA Vice President, has joined Hardie Grant as COO and will be working closely with Sandy Grant and...
New Varuna fellowship program announced for Indigenous writers
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
A three-year, $30,000 grant from the Copyright Agency will fund a new fellowship program for Indigenous writers at Varuna. The Copyright Agency Fellowships for First Nations Writers are open to...
Hardie Grant Books to publish Yumi Stynes’ debut cookbook
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Hardie Grant Books has announced the acquisition of broadcaster Yumi Stynes’ debut cookbook, The Zero F*cks Cookbook: Best Food Least Effort. The cookbook includes 60 ‘inventive, delicious and nutritious recipes...
S&S UK profit up in 2016
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
In the UK, Simon & Schuster made a before-tax profit of £3.76m (A$6.37m) in 2016, up from a loss of £132,000 (A$223,000) in 2015, reports the Bookseller. Turnover was up...
Shortlist announced for 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
The shortlist for the £30,000 (A$50,812) Baillie Gifford Prize, which recognises nonfiction writing by authors of any nationality, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern...
Troubled publisher Freight Books asks writers to buy their own books back
Monday, 9 October 2017
In the UK, Scottish publisher Freight Books has asked writers if they wanted to buy their own books back, as the publisher faces an ‘extremely uncertain’ future, reports the Bookseller....
US report finds only 7.8% of romance titles by people of colour
Monday, 9 October 2017
In the US, romance-specialist bookstore The Ripped Bodice has published a report on the racial diversity of romance publishing in 2016, reports Entertainment Weekly. The report found that 7.8% of...
Schrader wins 2017 CLNZ Writers’ Award
Monday, 9 October 2017
Freelance historian Ben Schrader has won the second annual Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers’ Award for nonfiction, worth NZ$25,000 (A$22,720), to help support his project Won and Lost: Saving New...
Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers shortlist announced
Friday, 6 October 2017
Scribe and Express Media have announced the shortlist for this year’s Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Sian Campbell, for ‘Harriet and the...
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