Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Sales Fiction—The Drummond Agency has sold German rights to Mr Chen’s Emporium (Deborah O’Brien) to Ullstein Verlag; and Polish rights to No Sex in the City (Randa Abdel-Fattah) through Marcin Beigaj...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The ABC will cut its Book Reading program, among several cuts to the national broadcaster’s programming, reports the Australian. The newspaper, which quotes an email sent by Radio National manager...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The small press network SPUNC has launched the program for its Independent Publishers Conference. The conference, to be held at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre on 8 and 9 November, will feature...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Currency Press co-founder Katherine Brisbane has won the JC Williamson Award at the 2012 Helpmann Awards. This year’s Helpmann Awards were presented at the Sydney Opera House on 24 September....

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
‘My point … is that the idea of the school—with authors working together towards a common aim, idea, or aesthetic—appears to be lacking, certainly in Australia, if not overseas too,...

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
In Delusion in Death (Hachette), J D Robb’s latest book in the ‘In Death’ series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates a mass murder that has occurred at an after-work happy-hour bar...

Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Sales Children’s/YA—Scholastic has licensed German-language rights in Button Boy (Rebecca Young & Sue deGennaro); and the dramatic rights in the following picture books: The Very Cranky Bear, The Very Itchy Bear, The...