Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Sales Fiction Transit Lounge has sold the film option for Soon (Lois Murphy) to Cenozoic Pictures. Children’s Mary Hare at ALC Agency has licensed What’s in Your Mind Today? (Louise Bladen...
HarperCollins to publish ‘electrifying’ debut novel; UK, film rights sold
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Melbourne author and playwright Gabriel Bergmoser’s 'electrifying' debut adult novel, The Hunted, in a two-book deal via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia. UK...
Publicity round-up
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Books+Publishing’s weekly publicity round-up covers forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction & poetry Susan Hurley (Eight Lives, Affirm)...
Walkley-Pascall winner Jeff Sparrow on literary criticism in Australia
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
'There is something of a crisis of criticism in Australia and it’s connected to broader declines in media. You only have to look at the book pages that used to...
Beyond just sales: Connecting to customers and communities through events
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Sarah Farquharson speaks to two independent bookshops about how they make connections with customers and their communities through events. The owners of BooksPlus, in the NSW town of Bathurst, and...
Cypriot writer Soteriou wins 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Cypriot writer Constantia Soteriou has been named the overall winner of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story 'Death Customs'. It is the first time in the history...
Australian Christian Book of the Year 2019 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Australian Christian Book of the Year been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Apostles’ Creed: A Guide to the Ancient Catechism (Benjamin Myers, Lexham Press)...
A&U acquires ‘fierce’ literary debut
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Jane Palfreyman at Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to literary fiction debut A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu, via Melanie Ostell Literary. The novel...
Blabey tops NYT bestseller charts
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
Aaron Blabey’s ‘The Bad Guys’ (Scholastic) has topped the New York Times weekly chart for bestselling children’s series. ‘The Bad Guys’, which has spent 37 weeks on the list, came...
‘Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas’ to be read for National Simultaneous Storytime 2020
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
Lucinda Gifford's forthcoming picture book Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas (Scholastic, October) has been chosen for the Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) 2020. Marking 20...
Black Inc. to publish ‘creative’ Thunberg bio; sells rights to S&S UK
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to a ‘creative biography’ of climate change activist Greta Thunberg to Simon & Schuster Children’s UK. Pitched at middle-grade readers, Greta’s...
McIver’s debut sold to Hachette AU and Tinder Press UK
Monday, 8 July 2019
Hachette Australia and UK publisher Tinder Press (part of the Hachette Livre UK Group) have jointly acquired rights to Ruth McIver’s debut novel I Shot the Devil, via Jacinta di...
Charts this week
Monday, 8 July 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Fast 800 Recipe Book Clare Bailey & Justine Pattison Simon & Schuster 2 Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton Fourth Estate 3...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 8 July 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This edition features a preview of...
UK Society of Authors launches £5000 prize for illustrated children’s books
Friday, 5 July 2019
In the UK, the Society of Authors (SoA) has launched the Queen's Knickers Award, a new £5000 (A$8950) prize for children’s illustrated books aimed at readers aged 0–7. Aimed at...
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ longlisted for Glass Bell Award
Friday, 5 July 2019
Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) has been longlisted for the UK's Glass Bell Award. Presented by London bookstore Goldsboro Books, the prize celebrates the best storytelling across all...
Amazon Prime to adapt Sutherland’s ‘Our Chemical Hearts’ for film
Friday, 5 July 2019
Krystal Sutherland’s YA novel Our Chemical Hearts (Penguin) is being adapted for film by Amazon Studios for the Amazon Prime streaming service. The film, titled Chemical Hearts, is written and directed by...
Brio to publish new Dessaix book on ageing
Friday, 5 July 2019
Brio has acquired ANZ rights to a new nonfiction book by Robert Dessaix, The Time of Our Lives: Growing old well, via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. Brio said...
Hachette acquires middle-grade, YA novels by Binks
Friday, 5 July 2019
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a middle-grade novel, The Year the Maps Changed, and a yet to be titled YA novel by literary agent Danielle Binks. The two-book...
A writer’s life for me: Andrew Daddo on ‘Atticus Van Tasticus’
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Atticus Van Tasticus, Andrew Daddo and Stephen Michael King’s illustrated middle-grade adventure (Puffin, September), follows a 10-year-old whose grandma gifts him a pirate ship. Kelsey Oldham spoke with Daddo about...
How to Make a Movie in 12 Days (Fiona Hardy, Affirm Kids)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Hayley, 11, has one mission in life: to make a movie. Ever since Grandma—who was going to make it with her—died, the need is much greater than before, especially since...
Ollie and Augustus (Gabriel Evans, Walker)
Thursday, 4 July 2019
When Ollie (‘small—like a pickling jar or a shoe box’) starts school, he worries that his beloved pet Augustus (‘large—like a fridge or a table’; a vast creature of indeterminate...
ABDA launches student prizes
Thursday, 4 July 2019
The Australian Book Design Association (ABDA) has announced it will award student prizes at the 2020 ABDA Awards. The inaugural student prizes will be judged in two categories: best cover...
Over 300 booksellers encouraged to ‘change the narrative’ at upbeat ABA conference
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Almost 340 booksellers, publishers and other guests attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, held in Melbourne from 23–24 June. ABA CEO Robbie Egan—who opened the conference by encouraging...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ and Canada) to Act of Grace (Anna Krien, October) to Serpent’s Tail (see news). Hachette has sold US...
Nathan Hollier on the future of MUP
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
‘To thrive and indeed survive as humans we need to develop our capacity to make rational decisions based on evidence, logic, and an open, imaginative, empathetic engagement with each other,...
Publicity round-up
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
Books+Publishing’s weekly publicity round-up covers forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction & poetry Susan Hurley (Eight Lives, Affirm)...
Book buyer spotlight: ALS Library Services’ Philippa Siebert
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
As a member of the acquisitions team at Adelaide-based ALS Library Services, Philippa Siebert has been helping libraries stock their shelves for over a decade. She spoke to Books+Publishing for our...
Is YA okay?: The state of Australian young adult literature
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
With reports from the UK showing a sharp decline in sales of YA fiction, Jackie Tang explores whether the Australian market is experiencing similar changes. When UK trade publication the...
Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
The shortlist for the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Lebs (Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette) A Sand Archive (Gregory Day, Picador) A Stolen...
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