Behind closed doors: Rose Michael on the acquisitions process
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Ten years ago, as a lecturer in the publishing and communications program at the University of Melbourne, Rose Michael hosted a debate on the then-contentious topic of whether the marketing...
Nick Dyrenfurth’s ‘Mateship: A Very Australian History’
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Surveys of Australians continue to show that ‘mateship’ is one of our country’s defining qualities. But what does it actually mean? In this provocative history, academic Nick Dyrenfurth traces Australian...
Hachette acquires self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series
Friday, 21 November 2014
Hachette Australia has acquired a self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series from Brisbane brother and sister Nicholas and Alison Lochel.The four-book ‘Zarkora’ series ‘is the story of brothers Neleik and Ervine Fyrelit,...
Cooking the books: behind the scenes with Hardie Grant Publishing online content editor Hannah Koelmeyer
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Hannah Koelmeyer is the online content editor for Hardie Grant Publishing’s Cooked website, which recently won an award for best consumer-facing website at the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards. Koelmeyer describes the website as ‘essentially Netflix...
Leisa Rayven’s ‘Bad Romeo’
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Bad Romeo doesn’t quite shake off its Twilight fan-fiction origins, but author Leisa Rayven manages a funny, sexy narrative voice that lifts this book above its peers. Cassie Taylor is cast in a...
A&U acquires novel on F Scott Fitzgerald
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has signed a novel following the final years of The Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald, reports the Bookseller.A&U acquired UK, Commonwealth and ANZ rights to...
Doing the deed: Sex in YA literature
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
‘For those of us who were teenagers before the early 2000s, the pickings were slim when it came to books that showed characters talking about sex, let alone actually doing...
Jackie French’s ‘Birrung: The Secret Friend’
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The setting is Sydney Cove, 1790. When Barney Bean catches the eye of the ‘Indian’ girl adopted by the colony’s chaplain, he has no idea how it is going to...
Fit, fed & informed: Tim White on the trend for healthy lifestyle titles
Thursday, 6 November 2014
‘The boundaries of what is a diet and what is a lifestyle are ever-changing because of trends in cuisine, ingredients, ideas about physical (and mental) health, and other factors, but...
Lynette Noni’s ‘Akarnae: The Medoran Chronicles Book One’
Thursday, 6 November 2014
This is another book about ‘young people at magic school’, which we’ve seen a lot of in the post-Harry Potter market. To be fair, the magic school plot device was...
A&U acquires new novel from US-based Australian author
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Allen & Unwin has acquired Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) and UK/Commonwealth rights to Australian author Dominic Smith’s new novel At the Edge of a Wood.The US-based author’s previous novels...
Clunes Booktown for Kids festival this weekend
Friday, 31 October 2014
Clunes’ inaugural Booktown for Kids festival will be held this weekend in the central Victorian town of Clunes with a Schools’ Day on Friday 31 October and a Family Day on...
Is the 14/14-day territorial copyright agreement working?
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
In the talkback column in the latest issue of Books+Publishing magazine we asked several publishers and booksellers whether the 14/14-day territorial copyright agreement was working for them. Scribe’s Henry Rosenbloom, Text’s Kirsty...
Patrick Holland’s ‘Navigato’
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
With the poise and economy of expression of a Zen Buddhist kōan, Navigatio explores the worldly and metaphysical searchings of St Brendan of Clonfert, a sixth-century Christian monk who braves...
Reilly, Ponting, Fox, Griffiths and Marsden top Australian bestsellers charts 2013-14
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) and Ricky Ponting’s memoir Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2013 to...
Jim Haynes’ ‘Australia’s Best Unknown Stories’
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Jim Haynes sorts the facts from the furphies in the audiobook Australia’s Best Unknown Stories, which combines snippets of Australian colonial history, short stories and poetry. With the voice of a...
Bertelsmann to acquire Relias Learning
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Multinational media company Bertelsmann will acquire US elearning provider Relias Learning, reports the Bookseller. Bertelsmann said in a statement that it will spend ‘in the mid-hundreds of millions’ of US...
Fox, Griffiths and Marsden top Australian children’s bestsellers charts 2013-14
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
For the fourth year in a row, books by Mem Fox, Andy Griffiths and John Marsden have topped the Australian picture book, children’s fiction and YA bestsellers charts, according to...
Reilly, Ponting top Australian bestsellers charts 2013-14
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) and Ricky Ponting’s memoir Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2013 to...
Cool for kids: Publishers’ top children’s and YA titles for 2015
Friday, 17 October 2014
Publishers tell Hilary Simmons about their top children’s and YA titles for 2015.A&U publisher Erica Wagner believes Maureen McCarthy’s forthcoming YA novel Stay with Me (May) is particularly timely given...
Wrapped up in books: Christmas 2014 titles
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
With Christmas just over two months away, most publishers have already released their key titles for the Christmas selling period. Brad Jefferies rounds up some of the favourites.
John Marsden’s ‘South of Darkness’
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
South of Darkness is John Marsden’s first novel for an adult audience, set in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby Fletch has no memory of his parents. For as long as...
A&U acquires ‘Cliff Hardy’ backlist
Monday, 13 October 2014
Allen & Unwin has bought the rights to 16 out-of-print titles from Peter Corris’ ‘Cliff Hardy’ series, and will publish the titles in December.A spokesperson for Allen & Unwin told...
The Rights Stuff 2014: Survey of Australian rights trading
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
For the 12th year in a row, Think Australian has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading and book exports. Andrew Wrathall...
‘Books+Publishing’ 2014 rights survey results
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
For the 12th year in a row, Books+Publishing has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading. The survey looks at average income...
Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Pat Lowe & Mervyn Street’s ‘The Girl from the Great Sandy Desert’
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
This chapter book is a charming collection of stories by Jukuna Mona Chuguna, a storyteller from the great Sandy Desert. They have been interpreted and re-told by her friend and...
Picador acquires debut by award-winning screenwriter
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Pan Macmillan imprint Picador has announced it has acquired local rights to a debut novel by award-winning Australian screenwriter Shirley Barrett.Barrett’s scripts include Love Serenade and South Solitary. She has...
Top 10 political bios of the past decade
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
How will Julia Gillard’s memoir measure up against her predecessors’? Nielsen BookScan has put together a list of the bestselling political biographies and memoirs of the past 10 years. View...
Bloomsbury Spark acquires first Australian novel
Monday, 29 September 2014
Bloomsbury Australia has acquired the first novel by an Australian to be published under its ebook-only Bloomsbury Spark imprint. Vanessa Barnevald’s young adult novel This is Your Afterlife is the...
Behind the scenes with Scholastic publisher and Snappyant co-director Ana Vivas
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Ana Vivas is a publisher at Scholastic Australia and co-director of Snappyant, which creates interactive children’s book apps for tablets. ‘In 2010, I downloaded an app on my iPhone called Peekaboo...
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