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Rogers to leave Hardie Grant Egmont 

Thursday, 25 August 2016
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) publishing director Hilary Rogers is leaving the company to start her own ‘series creation business’. HGE said in a statement that Rogers will continue to collaborate...

Ubud releases 2016 festival program

Thursday, 25 August 2016
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has released the full program for its 2016 festival, which will run from 26-30 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Among the newly announced international...

Small publisher spotlight: Brandl & Schlesinger 

Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Established in 1994, NSW-based Brandl & Schlesinger publishes literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and academic journals. ‘My husband had worked as the publisher in Hungary’s first independent publishing company after...

RiP Kevin Burgemeestre 

Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Children’s book author and illustrator Kevin Burgemeestre has died, aged 59. Burgemeestre’s 30-year career included illustrating Hazel Edwards’ Antarctic Dad (Lothian), Val Marshall and Bronwyn Tester’s Bernard Was a Bike...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 24 August 2016
‘Right now, the focus should be on moving forward with legislation to fix copyright’s most egregious and indefensible failures’—legal academics Kimberlee Weatherall and Rebecca Giblin weigh into the debate over...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Sales Fiction—Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold world rights to The Dark Lake (Sarah Bailey) to A&U. (See news.) Penguin Random House Australia has sold Spanish, French and...

Holly Throsby’s ‘Goodwood’ 

Wednesday, 24 August 2016
‘It’s fitting that a reviewer once described Australian musician Holly Throsby as “a songstress with [the] literary depth of a novelist”, because Throsby is now writing fiction—and her debut, Goodwood,...

A&U acquires debut crime novel ‘The Dark Lake’

Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired Melbourne author Sarah Bailey’s debut novel The Dark Lake via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. The Dark Lake is a crime novel set in...

Hugo Awards 2016 winners announced

Monday, 22 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Hugo Awards for the best science-fiction and fantasy titles of the previous year have been announced, with N K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (Orbit) winning...

RWA awards 2016 winners announced

Monday, 22 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 20 August at the RWA’s 25th national...

Charts this week 

Monday, 22 August 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 78-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 2 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One & Two (Special...

CBCA Awards 2016 winners announced

Friday, 19 August 2016
The winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Older Readers...

Reminder: CBCA awards announced today 

Friday, 19 August 2016
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will announce the winners of this year’s Book of the Year Awards at 12pm today in Sydney. Books+Publishing will publish a list of the...

Adsett partners with US agency Wolf Literary

Thursday, 18 August 2016
Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has announced a partnership with former UQP marketing coordinator Rachel Crawford at Wolf Literary Services in New York. The deal will see Crawford represent AAPS...

Rowling to release new Harry Potter ebooks in September

Thursday, 18 August 2016
J K Rowling will release new digital short-form content set in the Harry Potter world in September, reports the Bookseller. A Pottermore spokesperson told the Bookseller that the ‘Pottermore Presents’...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
‘The paper book is a value proposition. Twenty or thirty dollars buys you hours of deep, screen-free, distraction-free reading’—author Nick Earls on the benefits of print books and bookshops.

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Sales Fiction—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold world rights to The Hot Guy (Mel Campbell & Anthony Morris) to Echo. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Korean rights to The Shortest History...

Small publisher spotlight: Celapene Press 

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Melbourne-based Celapene Press released its first title—an anthology called Page Seventeen—in 2005 before specialising in children’s and YA fiction. ‘Our first children’s book was Machino Supremo by Mark Carthew and...

Cath Crowley’s ‘Words in Deep Blue’ 

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
‘Highly recommended for fans of Trinity Doyle’s Pieces of Sky and Fiona Wood’s Cloudwish, this is a love letter to books and bookshops, to the ocean, to falling in love...

ALIA makes My Big Idea shortlist

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) submission to the Concern for Future Generation’s My Big Idea national competition has made the shortlist. ALIA’s suggestion is for every child to...

Text acquires Macarthur biography

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Text has acquired world rights to a biography of Anglo-Australian settler and pioneer Elizabeth Macarthur by writer Michelle Scott Tucker in a two-book deal negotiated by Jacinta Di Mase Management....

NSW Premier’s History Awards 2016 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) The Eighties: The Decade that...

Inky Awards 2016 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 16 August 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...

‘KYD’ to end print publication, launch new awards

Monday, 15 August 2016
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced that it will move to digital-only publishing in 2017. The journal, which launched in March 2010, will release its final print edition...

 

 

 

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