Monash University Publishing to publish contemporary Australian literature series
Monday, 11 September 2017
Monash University Publishing will launch a new series of literary criticism in 2018 focusing on contemporary Australian writers. The press will publish two volumes in the ‘Contemporary Australian Writers’ series...
Line-up for Bundaberg’s WriteFest announced
Friday, 8 September 2017
The program for WriteFest 2017, running in Bundaberg from 6-8 October, has been announced. Author Arnold Zable headlines the festival program, joining other guests including Aleesah Darlison, Helena Pastor, Cindi...
Berbay launches junior fiction series
Thursday, 7 September 2017
Berbay Publishing will release its first junior fiction series, ‘Norton’, in 2018, by Melbourne writer and illustrator John Dickson. The series focuses on seven-year-old Norton, who is ‘finding his way...
A fair to remember: Denny Neave on Beijing International Book Fair 2017
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Parenting, education and picture books are the big trends in a Chinese market that is no longer emerging but ‘mature, viable and vibrant’, reports Big Sky publisher and Australian Publishers...
WestWords and Pinerolo announce recipients of illustrator residency
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Delene White and Sadami Konchi have been selected for the 2017 WestWords / Pinerolo Illustrators in Residence program, aimed at extending emerging illustrators’ knowledge of ‘picture book creation and design,...
Glenda Millard and Stephen Michael King’s ‘Pea Pod Lullaby’
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
‘Reading the beautiful language and realising its meaning would be affecting enough, but combined with the superb illustrations, it becomes sublime’ … read Margaret Hamilton’s full review here.
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold the following rights to The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose): Hebrew rights to Modan Publishing House; Korean rights to Hankyoreh; and Greek rights...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
‘For my last festival, a revolutionary festival, I wanted to give a bigger platform to people whose voices are marginalised and shut out’—Melbourne Writers Festival CEO and artistic director Lisa...
Reni Eddo-Lodge tops MWF bestseller chart; keynotes sell out
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
This year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) attracted ‘big, diverse audiences for important conversations on race, identity, politics and feminism’, reports CEO and artistic director Lisa Dempster. Attendance figures are still...
RiP Louise Hay
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Louise Hay, author and founder of Hay House Publishing, has died aged 90. Hay published Heal Your Body in 1976, followed by You Can Heal Your Life in 1984, which...
Book blogger spotlight: Children’s Books Daily
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Queensland-based blogger and teacher-librarian Megan Daley has a longstanding involvement with children’s and YA literature, which gives her blog a unique viewpoint. ‘I feel like I’ve been wandering around the...
Text acquires Wakefield’s ‘Youth’
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Text has acquired world rights to a new YA novel by Friday Brown and Ballad for a Mad Girl author Vikki Wakefield. Youth is a story about breaking the cycle...
Australian authors raise funds for Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
A number of Australian authors have started the ‘Authors for Asylum’ campaign on Twitter to raise funds for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC). The campaign was started on 31...
S&S to launch Scribner Australia imprint; acquires literary novel by Olsson
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia will launch the literary imprint Scribner in Australia and New Zealand in 2018 with a new novel by Kristina Olsson. Shell is ‘a sweeping literary novel...
Era launches ‘WINGS’ children’s book series in China
Monday, 4 September 2017
South Australia-based publisher Era Publications has partnered with Chinese publisher New Century Publishing to publish 1.7 million copies of its ‘WINGS’ children’s reader series in China. Launched at the Beijing...
McKinty, Harper win 2017 Ned Kelly Awards
Monday, 4 September 2017
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. The best fiction award was presented to Adrian McKinty for...
Charts this week
Monday, 4 September 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 91-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley 3 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food Jamie...
UK children’s publisher pulps ‘Growing Up for Boys’ after criticism
Friday, 1 September 2017
In the UK, Usborne Publishing has announced it will pulp the remaining stock of its 2013 title Growing Up for Boys, after the book was criticised for its claim that...
US PEN Center withdraws ‘Stealing Indians’ from YA prize shortlist after criticism
Thursday, 31 August 2017
The PEN Center USA has withdrawn John Smelcer’s novel Stealing Indians (Leapfrog Press) from its Young Adult Prize shortlist after several writers publicly questioned Smelcer’s integrity, reports the Guardian. Stealing...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Czech rights to the ‘Phryne Fisher’ books Cocaine Blues and Flying Too High (Kerry Greenwood) to Charleston Media. Text has sold ANZ audio rights...
Rippin’ good yarns: Sally Rippin on her new imprint at Bonnier
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Jackie Tang talks to Sally Rippin about setting up the new ‘Sally Rippin Presents’ junior fiction list at Bonnier Publishing Australia and what direction she wants to take it. Read...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
‘With Amazon on the ground to handle distribution alongside its international reach, there will be a stronger incentive for Australian authors to turn to Amazon and self-publish. This may lead...
Georgia Blain’s ‘The Museum of Words’
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
‘Blain notes that, with this book, she joins Cory Taylor (Dying: A Memoir) and Jenny Diski (In Gratitude) in an emerging subgenre of the illness memoir. Despite this grim context,...
US educational provider Follett partners with advocacy group to save school libraries
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
In the US, educational provider Follett has teamed up with Chicago-based political action group EveryLibrary to assist advocacy efforts for school libraries, reports Publishers Weekly. Follett is funding EveryLibrary’s expanded...
Readings donation funds new library at Ballarat school
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
A donation from independent bookselling chain Readings has contributed to a new library at Berry Street School in Ballarat, Victoria, reports the Courier. The Readings Foundation donated $17,900 to the school...
Australian Centre Literary Awards 2017 winners announced
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
The winners of the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre Literary Awards were announced at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 26 August. Wesley Michel Wright Prize The Wesley Michel Wright Prize...
‘New York Times’ pulls YA book from its bestsellers chart after ‘inconsistencies’ in sales reports
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
In the US, the New York Times has pulled a novel from the top of its young adult hardcover bestsellers list after discovering ‘inconsistencies’ in its sales reporting. The New...
YA authors to run book club on a train
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Contributors to the #LoveOzYA anthology Begin, End, Begin (HarperCollins) will be running a book club discussion on a Melbourne train on 14 September as part of Australian Reading Hour. Authors...
MidnightSun sells Swedish rights for ‘A Cardboard Palace’
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
MidnightSun Publishing has sold Swedish rights for Allayne L Webster’s middle-grade novel A Cardboard Palace to B. Wahlströms Bokförlag. This is the publisher’s first middle-grade book to sell overseas. Publishing...
Black Inc. acquires Dovey book on Coetzee
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Black Inc. has signed Ceridwen Dovey to contribute to its ‘Writers on Writers’ series with a book on Nobel Prize-winning South African and Australian author J M Coetzee. Dovey’s book...
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