Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Michael Palin drew on his memories of family holidays in grey, provincial seaside resorts to write the screenplay for East of Ipswich, a coming of age comedy set in the...

Tuesday, 20 July 2010
On the blog this week, Doris Mousdale reviews The Crime of Huey Dunstan (James McNeish, Text), Rachel Wilson reviews Spinning Out (Christine Darcas, Hachette Australia) and John Webb interviews James...

Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Last year, Rosemary's Romance Books in Brisbane won the Romance Writers of America Steffie Walker Bookseller of the Year Award. Owner Rosemary Potter wrote a bookseller's diary for us in...

Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Performing arts college Dother Hall is not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting, but once her mates turn up and they start their summer course things are bound to...

Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'The trouble with Amazon' #dearpublisher has Twitter atwitterAudiogo acquires BBC Audiobooks  Figes agrees to...

Tuesday, 20 July 2010
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has recommended a minimum ebook royalty for authors of 35% of the publisher's net receipts. The recommendation is contained in an 11-page paper on...

Tuesday, 20 July 2010
The program for this year's Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 27 August to 5 September 2010, has been launched. The festival's first keynote address will feature eight writers--Barry Dickins,...

Tuesday, 20 July 2010
'If the publisher's split is a weak one, favouring the online retailer, that is not the author's problem. Authors should not be expected to compensate or make up for shortfalls...

Tuesday, 20 July 2010
HarperCollins gives $30,000 to Indigenous Literacy ProjectHarperCollins staff have raised funds for the Indigenous Literacy Project, through multiple charitable events, raising a total of $30,000. HarperCollins CEO Michael Moynahan presented Indigenous Literacy...

Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Mildura Writers’ Festival: 15-18 JulySPUNC professional development session: 15 JulyCrime and Justice Festival: 16-18 JulyQWC/Hachette Manuscript...

Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Murdoch Books has announced the appointment of Chris Rennie as publishing director. ‘As the current publisher of the trade, reference and language division at Lonely Planet, Chris has been able...

Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Stephanie Meyer's new novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (Hachette) has remained at number one on the bestseller chart for a whole month. Sizzling Sixteen (Janet Evanovich, Hachette)...

Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Allen & Unwin celebrated 20 years as an independent Australian publisher with a very well-attended party in Sydney last Friday night. About 700 guests filled the harbourside Doltone House at...

Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Frankfurt to see 'largest LitAg ever'RiP Harvey PekarJames Patterson sells over 1 million...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has announced the creation of a new award for an academic manuscript by an Indigenous writer. The award, named after...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Jane Higgins has won the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, for her 'apocalyptic action novel' The Bridge. Higgins' novel will be published by Text in August...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Australian author Hsu-Ming Teo, who was born in Malaysia before migrating to Australia in 1977 aged seven, has been named as one of the judges for the 2010 Man Asian...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
After more than 17 years as the executive producer of the Adelaide Writers' Week, Rose Wight has resigned suddenly, in protest at ‘insulting and unacceptable' terms in her new contract.In...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
A new website at www.love2read.org.au is now live in the lead-up to the National Year of Reading 2012. The National Year of Reading is an initiative of 11 library-related organisations...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Allen & Unwin sales director Chris Burgess will leave the company on 29 July to take up the position of general manager at ReadHowYouWant (RHYW).Burgess will take up the newly...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Can it be that time of year already? Well, not quite, but Father's Day isn't far away. In the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine editor Andrea Hanke rounds up the...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Hachette Australia writes:'Hachette Australia is saddened by the death of John Mckone last Thursday. 'John brought his retirement forward earlier this year owing to ill health. In typical John style, he made light of...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
The titles shortlisted for the 2010 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works are:Primary schoolPrimary educational website:www.myplace.edu.au (Deb Cohen and team, Education Services...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
On our Fancy Goods blog this week: Matthia Dempsey on Nicholas Carr's forthcoming look at 'how the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember', The Shallows (Atlantic,...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
In rights news this week Jenny Darling & Associates reports ‘a Danish translation sale for Dog Boy by Eva Hornung (Text), to Klim Forlaget' and has also sold Swedish rights...

Tuesday, 13 July 2010
CAL Scribe Fiction Prize prizemoney increases to $15,000The prize money for the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize will increase from $10,000 to $15,000 in 2011. The prize, for the best unpulished...