Join the club: What makes a good book club program work?
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Rising numbers of book clubs at bookstores and libraries show there is still ‘a voracious appetite for concentrated group discussion’. Elizabeth Flux investigates what makes a good club work. In...
The winning ticket: The literary prize sales effect
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Nielsen Book associate director Julie Winters talks to Jackie Tang about the sales effect of Australia’s biggest literary prizes. How much does a literary award affect a book’s sales? It’s...
For the love of poetry: Looking beyond Instapoetry
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Angela Elizabeth finds out how local publishers are committing to poetry beyond the ‘Instapoetry’ trend. ‘Poetry is the medium of the moment,’ proclaimed UK National Poetry Day executive director Susannah...
Cover new ground: Rejacketing a children’s book series
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Nathania Gilson asks publishers and booksellers about the art of rejacketing a children’s book series. When Tristan Bancks, co-creator and author of the Tom Weekly junior-fiction series, was presented with...
Back to the drawing board: Publishing local board books
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Danielle Binks explores the rising demand for homegrown board books. In her Ten Commandments for reading aloud with children, author Mem Fox’s number-one rule is: ‘Spend at least ten wildly...
Inaugural Shoalhaven Readers’ & Writers’ Festival announces program
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
A new readers’ and writers’ festival will be held in Nowra, in the Shoalhaven region of the NSW south coast, on Saturday, 4 August 2018. The inaugural one-day festival will...
Five delegates receive OzCo funding to attend Shanghai book fair
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
The Australia Council has announced the five Australian publishing recipients it is sponsoring to attend the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) in November. The five delegates are: Jacinta...
‘Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables’ sold to US in three-book deal
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has sold North American rights to Tim Harris’ children’s book series ‘Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables’ (illus by James Hart, Random House) to Sourcebooks in a three-book...
Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2018 shortlist announced
Monday, 2 July 2018
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The shortlisted books in each category are: Picture fiction Can You Find Me? (Gordon Winch,...
ABC Books signs gardening book by Costa Georgiadis
Monday, 2 July 2018
ABC Books has acquired the first book by landscape architect and Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis. The as-yet-untitled gardening book will possess Georgiadis’ ‘unique, inimitable and delightful approach to nurturing...
Charts this week
Monday, 2 July 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 2 The President is Missing President Bill Clinton & James Patterson Century 3...
Hachette signs FitzSimons for six-book deal
Monday, 2 July 2018
Hachette Australia has signed a six-book deal with author Peter FitzSimons. Negotiated directly with FitzSimons, the six-book deal will begin with Mutiny on the Bounty, which tells the story of...
Hinkler and Bookoli launch mass-market UK publisher
Friday, 29 June 2018
Melbourne-based children’s publisher Hinkler Books and UK children’s publisher Bookoli are launching a new mass-market publisher based in the UK. Curious Universe UK, which is the result of a 50-50...
Text sells US, UK rights to Collette debut; Hillman picked up by Faber
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Text Publishing has sold North American rights to Katherine Collette’s forthcoming debut The Helpline to Tara Parsons, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) Touchstone division in the US, in a...
UQP acquires Birch’s new novel ‘The White Girl’
Thursday, 28 June 2018
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired author Tony Birch’s third novel, The White Girl. World (including translation) rights were acquired by UQP publishing director and acting-CEO Madonna Duffy, as...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ to be published globally through HarperCollins
Thursday, 28 June 2018
HarperCollins Australia has announced a global deal for Trent Dalton’s debut Boy Swallows Universe that will see the book published through HarperCollins companies across major English and translation markets. HarperCollins...
Finding your centre: Megan Daley on her career journey
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
‘A school library is at the very centre of creative school communities,’ writes teacher-librarian and book blogger Megan Daley. She shares her career journey. I studied early childhood teaching, always...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
‘The fact that Amazon is moving into physical stores is a reflection of their recognition that, actually, physical is complementary to digital’—Paul Currie reflects on the sustainable future of bookstores...
RiP Candy Royalle
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Lebanese-Palestinian Australian poet and activist Candy Royalle has died, aged 37. Royalle was a spoken word artist and performer, and the author of two poetry collections, Heartbeats (self-published) and Love Spectacular...
HK public libraries remove LGBTQIA+ kids books
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
The Hong Kong government has been accused of moving several LGBTQIA-themed children’s books out of public view in the city's public libraries, following complaints by an anti-gay group, reports the Standard....
Talking less and listening more: Martin Hughes on creating safer workplaces
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes (with senior editor Ruby Ashby-Orr) explores what it means to shape a better culture and create safer workplaces. At the recent Leading Edge Books conference...
Podcast spotlight: Spun Stories
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Established in 2015, Spun: True Stories Told in the Territory evolved from a quarterly live storytelling event in Darwin that showcases ‘extraordinary stories by ordinary people’. Hosted and produced by...
300 attend 2018 ABA Conference; booksellers ‘surviving and thriving’
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Close to 300 booksellers, exhibitors and guest speakers attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference and trade show, which was held in Canberra from 17-18 June. This year, the...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Sales Fiction Giramondo Publishing has sold German-language rights to Border Districts (Gerald Murnane) in a two-book deal to Suhrkamp; Arabic-language rights in Egypt to A Million Windows (Gerald Murnane) to Al...
Barry Jonsberg’s ‘A Song Only I Can Hear’
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
‘With the release of A Song Only I Can Hear, it may finally be time to stop describing every emotionally intelligent middle fiction book as ‘the next Wonder’; Jonsberg has raised the...
Hardie Grant acquires Pascoe’s travel guide
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Hardie Grant Travel has acquired world rights to a travel guide book by Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe. The as-yet-untitled book will look at places in Australia ‘where evidence of Indigenous...
Goldin’s escape room thriller attracts six-figure North American deal
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Australian author Megan Goldin’s second novel, The Escape Room (Michael Joseph), has sold into North America in a six-figure, two-book deal negotiated by David Gernert of the Gernert Agency on...
Ventura acquires world rights to d’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Blanche D’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series. The first two books in the series, The Young Lion and The Lion Rampant, will be...
Dymocks Book Club launches on ‘Kids’ WB’
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Chain bookseller Dymocks has partnered with Australian children’s television show Kids’ WB, from Channel Nine, to launch a monthly children’s book segment. Each month’s segment will feature a group of...
‘Into the Heart of Tasmania’ wins inaugural Dick and Joan Green Family Award
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Historian Rebe Taylor’s Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity (MUP) has won the inaugural Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, reports the Advocate. The...
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