Tuesday, 28 June 2011
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has advised that former speaker's agency Show & Tell Promotions has designed a 'repayment schedule' to repay authors for unpaid speaking events. As previously...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--The Mary Cunnane Agency has sold US and Canadian rights to That Deadman Dance (Kim Scott, Picador) to Bloomsbury.Nonfiction--Hachette Australia has sold Opening the Door...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
A recent survey conducted by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has found that 26% of local publishers admit to having no digital strategy. The survey on digital publishing trends, which recorded...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
As Kim Scott takes out one of the country's best known prizes, Fairfield Books' Heather Dyer and Allen & Unwin publisher Jane Palfreyman address the fraught question 'Is there such...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
'We are a long way from being a post-reconciliation society'--Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott responds to judges comments that That Deadman Dance is a 'post-reconciliation' novel.

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
On Fancy Goods this week Toni Whitmont interviews Kim Scott on That Deadman Dance (Picador) and we take a look at the shortlisted titles for the 2011 PANZ Book Design...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
New publisher Spineless Wonders, which launched with the short story collection Permission to Lie (Julie Chevalier) in April, has announced the establishment of the Carmel Bird Short Fiction Award. The...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Pottermore website to sell Harry Potter ebooks exclusively'Digital makes territorial rights obsolete': CharkinUS ebook...

Tuesday, 28 June 2011
The third book in the 'Fallen' series, Passion (Lauren Kate, Doubleday), has risen to the top of the bestsellers chart, in first place, and has maintained the top position on...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Australian author Tim Flannery has been longlisted for the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Flannery's Here on Earth: An argument for hope (Text) is one of 13 titles...

Monday, 27 June 2011
The shortlists for this year's Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted in the best designed cover category are:Eep! (Joke can Leeuwen,...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Australian illustrator Shaun Tan has won the best artist category in the 2011 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation in the US....

Monday, 27 June 2011
New name for ABR poetry prize The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced its Poetry Prize has been renamed the Peter Porter Poetry Prize in memory of the late Australian...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:18th Scarlet Stiletto Awards Closing: 30 June 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, winners announced this week:...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Melanie Joosten's Berlin Syndrome (Scribe), Malcolm Knox's The Life (A&U) and Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance (Picador) received equal mentions this week. Kim Scott is the winner of this year's...

Monday, 27 June 2011
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Monday, 27 June 2011
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Monday, 27 June 2011
Sabina Wolanski, Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir Destined to Live (HarperCollins), has died aged 84. Amruta Slee, associate publisher at HarperCollins, writes:'Long before she was an author, Sabina...

Monday, 27 June 2011
Canadian novelist and poet Robert Kroetsch has died, aged 83.Kroetsch wrote 14 poetry collections, seven non-fiction works and nine books of fiction including the novel The Studhorse Man (The University of Alberta...

Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Passion (Lauren Kate, Doubleday), the third book in the 'Fallen' series and the latest installment in the love story of mortal Lucinda and fallen angel Daniel, is top of the fastest movers chart followed by...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
The shortlists for the 2010 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are:NonfictionA Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W K Hanock (Jim Davidson, UNSW Press)Breaking News: The...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Walker Books Australia has announced that it has acquired the Black Dog Books imprint. Effective 1 July, Black Dog Books will be an imprint of Walker Books with current Black Dog...