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...
Student assessment: Meet the 2016 Inky Awards judges
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
‘The rise of book blogging has seen people appreciating books as artefacts again, not just as stories. The saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” has less and less...
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...
Text acquires 2016 Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript winner
Monday, 15 August 2016
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to the short-story collection Australia Day by Melanie Cheng, the winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, in a...
Charts this week
Monday, 15 August 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One & Two (Special Rehearsal edition) J K Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany...
Bloomsbury announces plans for ‘Fantastic Beasts’ titles
Friday, 12 August 2016
Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired the rights to several movie tie-in books for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and ‘J K Rowling’s Wizarding World’, ahead of the film’s...
‘The 78-Storey Treehouse’ sets new records for Australian title
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 78-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has sold more copies on its first day than any other Australian book, according to Dymocks and Booktopia. At Dymocks, sales...
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ sells 212k copies in Oz in its first week
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript (J K Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne, Hachette) has sold 211,898 copies valued at $5.49m in its first week of release in Australia,...
Bookstores prepare for National Bookshop Day
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Preparations are underway for the sixth annual National Bookshop Day this Saturday 13 August, with stores around the country hosting events and promotions. The theme of this year’s National Bookshop...
RiP Peter Gossage
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
New Zealand children’s author Peter Gossage has died, aged 69. Gossage was the author of more than 20 books, and was best known for his colourfully illustrated retellings of Maori...
Paul Mitchell’s ‘We. Are. Family.’
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
‘Paul Mitchell’s debut novel is the rare book that seems to both invite every clichéd description of new Australian writing—visceral, lyrical, “Wintonesque”—and somehow read as genuinely innovative’ … read Myles...
Small publisher spotlight: Serenity Press
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Serenity Press was founded in Perth in 2012 to create publishing opportunities for emerging Australian authors. ‘Our next project is really exciting and I feel that it is our biggest...
RiP Jeffrey Grey
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Australian military historian and author Jeffrey Grey has died, aged 57. Grey was the author of the books A Military History of Australia (CUP) and A Soldier’s Soldier (CUP), among many others....
Reaching the readers: Terri-ann White on book promotion
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Is the book industry doing enough to promote books in a crowded marketplace, asks UWA Publishing director, author and former bookseller Terri-ann White in her latest column for Books+Publishing magazine.
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
‘I think the difference between us and J K Rowling is she’s J R R Tolkien and we’re Enid Blyton. You can decide who would win in that match’—Andy Griffiths...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. (Nero) has sold ANZ audio rights to Our Turn (Kristine Stewart) to Bolinda. Children’s—Scholastic has sold US and Canadian rights to Mummies Are Lovely (Meredith Costain, illus...
More than 70,000 attend Byron Writers Festival; Szubanski the bestseller
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Box-office takings were up 14% and more than 70,000 guests attended the 20th Byron Writers Festival, which was held from 5-7 August. The record crowd was ‘particularly gratifying for the...
Leading Edge to hold standalone conference in 2017
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Leading Edge Books will hold its 2017 annual conference as a standalone event in late March, after four years of running the event in tandem with the Australian Booksellers Association...
NZ YA novel ‘Spark’ optioned for film
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
New Zealand production company Miss Conception Films has optioned the film rights to NZ author Rachael Craw’s YA novel Spark (Walker Books). Producer Ainsley Gardiner said the company was excited to...
‘ANZAC Heroes’ wins 2016 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Tuesday, 9 August 2016
Maria Gill’s ANZAC Heroes (illus by Marco Invancic, Scholastic) has won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young...
Charts this week
Monday, 8 August 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty Macmillan 2 After You Jojo Moyes Penguin 3 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael...
Children’s publishing and bookselling seminar ‘hailed as a success’
Friday, 5 August 2016
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) say they hope to run more joint events centring on the children’s sector, after the success of the ‘Between the...
Student assessment: Meet the 2016 Inky Awards judges
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Each year, a panel of teen judges from around the country select the shortlist for the Inky Awards for youth literature. Books+Publishing’s 16-year-old work experience student Alexandra Pixton spoke to...
‘Harry Potter’ bestselling book in the UK in a decade; two million copies sold in the US
Thursday, 4 August 2016
In the UK, publisher Little, Brown has said the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript has sold 680,000 print copies in the first three days of sale to make...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
‘It’s great to have that one book bringing people into bookshops, it has a real knock-on effect to other books’—Pages & Pages co-owner Jon Page tells SmartCompany how the release...
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