Tuesday, 14 January 2014
WritingWA has released an app based on a children’s picture book as part of an initiative to encourage multi-platform product development.Caterpillar and Butterfly is based on the picture book of...

Tuesday, 14 January 2014
New Zealand Book Month, previously held in March each year, will move to August this year. The organisers of the month-long promotion said in a statement in December that the...

Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the...

Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Australian science-fiction expert Graham Stone has died, aged 87. Stone wrote several books on the genre, founded and published periodicals and established societies and conventions.Stone’s definite guide to Australian science-fiction, Australian Science Fiction...

Monday, 13 January 2014
Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) is again at number one on the bestsellers chart, followed by the film tie-in edition of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador)...

Thursday, 9 January 2014
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the recipients of its 2013-14 mentorships for emerging writers and illustrators. Twelve applicants have been selected for this year’s program and will...

Thursday, 9 January 2014
A new festival celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Banjo Paterson will be held from 7-17 February in Paterson’s birthplace, the city of Orange in New South Wales....

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Susan Dunne has joined the Ingram Content Group in the role of senior key accounts sales manager for Lightning Source Australia. Dunne, who started in the role in December 2013,...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
The Stella Prize has received $20,000 in funding from Creative Partnerships Australia as part of a new matched funding initiative.The Plus1 Matched Funding grants, which are supported by the Federal...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Hachette Australia is the latest local publisher to make digital advance reading copies of its books available through NetGalley. There are 30 Hachette Australia titles currently listed on NetGalley. Among the first...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
New Zealand children’s book illustrator Alan Gilderdale has died, aged 89. Gilderdale is best known as the illustrator of the popular ‘Little Yellow Digger’ series of picture books, written by...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
‘In fiction, we can look forward to a new Salman Rushdie novel, a new Hercule Poirot mystery, a sequel to The Rosie Project, the next Game of Thrones saga and...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Historical romance author Anna Campbell is in the running to be crowned Australia’s favourite romance author for the fifth consecutive year. Campbell is one of 10 finalists in the Favourite Author category...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Publisher Kevin Chapman and Man Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton are among the recipients of the 2014 New Zealand New Year Honours. Chapman, founder of Upstart Press and the former...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Georgina Russell has been appointed as the new marketing and development manager for the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF). Russell began in the role in December 2013, replacing Collette Stewart. She...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual post-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. BooksellersIf you are a bookseller, please complete the...

Monday, 6 January 2014
Familiar names fill this week’s bestsellers chart, including Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) and Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) at number one and...

Monday, 6 January 2014
British author Paul Torday died in late December, aged 67. Torday is best known for his debut novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Hachette), which was released when he was 61....

Monday, 6 January 2014
UK author Elizabeth Jane Howard has died, aged 90. Howard wrote 15 novels in a career that spanned seven decades, including ‘The Cazalet Chronicles’, a series of five novels, beginning...