Thursday, 5 February 2015
Literary journal Overland has announced changes to its editorial staff.Journalist and 3CR radio presenter Bec Zajac—who has also managed Overland’s publicity for the past two years—has been appointed associate editor.As...

Thursday, 5 February 2015
Australian fantasy author Mitchell Hogan has sold world English-language rights to two previously self-published novels and a third unreleased title in a six-figure deal with HarperVoyager.Hogan’s novel A Crucible of...

Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Allen & Unwin has acquired the Australian and New Zealand rights to the ‘Zeroes’ YA trilogy by Sydney-based authors Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti.The trilogy follows six Californian teens with...

Wednesday, 4 February 2015
The second annual Digital Writers’ Festival (DWF) has launched its 2015 program. The online-only festival, which is hosted by the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), will run from 11-22 February and feature over...

Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Australian author Colleen McCullough has died aged 77.The author passed away on 29 January in hospital on Norfolk Island.McCullough’s publisher HarperCollins has released a statement paying tribute to ‘one of Australia’s most...

Wednesday, 4 February 2015
An Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) delegation will attend a conference by its US industry counterparts in Asheville, North Carolina.The delegation attending the 10th American Booksellers Association Winter Institute, held from...

Wednesday, 4 February 2015
SalesFiction—Black Inc. has sold German rights to She's Having Her Baby (Lauren Sams) to Egmont Ink.Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold Polish rights to Change the Way You Eat (Leanne Cooper); and...

Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Penguin will publish a series of 80 short classics to celebrate the publisher’s 80th birthday. The Little Black Classics range, published by Penguin UK, aims to showcase the diversity of the Penguin...

Tuesday, 3 February 2015
The inaugural Photobook Melbourne festival and Australian Photo Book of the Year Awards will be held on 12-22 February.In a statement, festival organisers said the event ‘aims to connect Australia...

Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens (Vintage) has been announced as the winner of the Historical Fiction category on the American Library Association (ALA) 2015 Reading List.Judges, consisting of 12 ALA-member librarians,...

Monday, 2 February 2015
Affirm Press publisher and Stella Prize co-founder and executive director Aviva Tuffield is a finalist in the 2015 Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards.Tuffield is one of three finalists in the Change Champion...

Thursday, 29 January 2015
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold Hungarian rights to Silver Wattle and Sapphire Skies (both Belinda Alexandra). Spinifex Press has sold UK rights to Haifa Fragments (Khulud Khamis); and Italian rights to Haifa...

Thursday, 29 January 2015
Kelly Fagan has been appointed to the newly created role of head of marketing and publicity for Black Inc. mass-market imprint Nero. Fagan, who was previously publicity manager at HarperCollins, will start in...

Thursday, 29 January 2015
Exisle Publishing has appointed Matthew Pickering to the newly created role of digital affairs manager.Pickering, who will be based in Exisle’s Auckland office, will manage the publisher’s digital data and oversee digital operations in...

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Social researcher and author Hugh Mackay is among the recipients of the 2015 Australia Day honours, presented by the Governor-General on 26 January for ‘service to the nation and to...