Hanging in the balance: Gender parity in classroom text lists
Thursday, 15 June 2017
With the Victorian Year 12 English text list recently reaching gender parity, Bec Kavanagh investigates how text lists are generated in other states and whether a gender-balanced list translates into...
Book blogger spotlight: Tea in the Treetops
Thursday, 15 June 2017
Brisbane-based bloggers Anni and Philippa met through blogging about World of Warcraft, and now blog together at Tea in the Treetops, which focuses on YA, sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal and historical...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 13 June 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 2 Come Sundown Nora Roberts Hachette 3 Lord of Shadows Cassandra Clare Simon & Schuster 4...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
‘In these hurried, hustling times, where it seems impossible to find a place simply to sit without someone trying to sell you a $1 coffee for $4.50, libraries are one...
Book blogger spotlight: Tea and Titles
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Book bloggers Ely and Michelle, of Tea and Titles, are staunch advocates for greater representation of disability in books. ‘The call for diversity in YA is something we’ve definitely noticed...
Brigid Delaney’s ‘Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness’
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
‘Delaney is a relatable and fearless tour guide on this journey, game enough to go to the very edge while you watch from a safe distance; there is something both...
Back to backlist: extending the sales period beyond new release
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
How do you extend the sales period of a book past its new-release window? Brad Jefferies asks two local publishers and online bookseller Booktopia for their backlist sales strategies, while...
Charts this week
Monday, 5 June 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Lord of Shadows Cassandra Clare Simon & Schuster 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 3 No Middle Name: Jack Reacher Story...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
‘The role and value of Australian literary books and culture may need to be reconceptualised and communicated to younger Australians in new ways that are relevant to them’—Macquarie University researchers...
Training opportunities for US editors
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Harlequin executive senior editor Annabel Blay spent 10 weeks in New York researching fiction editing in the US as part of her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. In this extract from...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Sales Fiction—Giramondo has sold US rights to Border Districts and Stream System (Gerald Murnane) to Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Text has sold Turkish rights to Fear (Dirk Kurbjuweit) to Hep...
Melanie Joosten’s ‘Gravity Well’
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
‘Thirty years ago, American astronomer Carl Sagan described a photo of our planet as a blue dot: “That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone...
Book blogger spotlight: Diva Booknerd
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
YA and middle-grade book blogger Kelly from Diva Booknerd says she reviews books ‘purely on emotion and entertainment’, and enjoys the sense of community that blogging brings. Read our interview...
Charts this week
Monday, 29 May 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 No Middle Name Lee Child Bantam 2 Into the Water Paula Hawkins Doubleday 3 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 4 The...
Felicity Castagna’s ‘No More Boats’
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
‘In a beautifully observed study of migrants who are acceptable (the Italians, the Greeks), tolerated (the Vietnamese) and deplored (the asylum seeker “flood” of the 21st century: Muslim terrorists!), Castagna...
Under the influence: Reaching online influencers
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
As ‘old media’ books coverage shrinks, the influence of voices in ‘new media’ is becoming increasingly important. But how do publishers reach online influencers—and how are traditional influencers growing their...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
‘Whenever we are honest about sales results, authors despair and readers are puzzled, imagining that the myth of instant success and quitting the day job is real’—UWA Publishing’s Terri-ann White...
Book blogger spotlight: Readers in Wonderland
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
Australian blogger Rebecca Daly collaborates with US-based Alise McGriffin on YA blog Readers in Wonderland, where they post 'reviews, pretty pictures and fangirling'. Daly’s blogging style incorporates GIFs and images...
Charts this week
Monday, 22 May 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Into the Water Paula Hawkins Doubleday 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape Wrightbooks 3 The Fix David Baldacci Macmillan 4 Against All...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
‘With less mid-market clutter, when a book like Hera Lindsay Bird or Can You Tolerate This? or My Father’s Island catches on it gets more attention and better sales than...
Book-to-film adaptations coming in 2017
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
The second half of 2017 promises a wide selection of book-to-film adaptations, with remakes of popular classics, adaptions of new sci-fi novels and much in between. Christina Copeland rounds up...
Book blogger spotlight: Books for a Delicate Eternity
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Chiara Sullivan blogs about YA books, with a particular focus on diversity and LGBTQIA+ representation, in her blog Books for a Delicate Eternity. ‘Books need to represent the people who...
Marlee Jane Ward’s ‘Psynode’
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
‘Both the original novella and its sequel are powerful, gripping and fresh. Ward effortlessly plays around with language. Her dialogue feels authentically young and edgy, and she captures the diversity...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Spanish rights in Latin America to Silver Wattle (Belinda Alexandra) to Ediciones B Mexico SA de CV. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth audio rights...
Charts this week
Monday, 15 May 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Into the Water Paula Hawkins Doubleday 2 A Court of Wings and Ruin Sarah J Maas Bloomsbury 3 The Fix David Baldacci...
Book blogger spotlight: Reading Matters
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
UK-based Australian blogger Kim Forrester started Reading Matters in 2004 to help her remember what she was reading. Now she likes to focus on ‘books that may have slipped under...
Margaret Hamilton: A life in children’s books
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Former children’s book publisher Margaret Hamilton AM recently retired from the national board of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) after 57 years with the organisation. In her retirement...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
‘In Australia we are all, increasingly, being denied participation in, and exposure to, art and arts criticism’—Anwen Crawford on ‘the crisis in Australian arts coverage’ in the Monthly.
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world German-language rights to Bonkers (Michelle Holman) to Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur. Scribe has sold UK & Commonwealth audio rights to The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy...
Inga Simpson’s ‘Understory: A Life with Trees’
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
‘While each of Simpson’s novels has shown a strong connection to land and nature, this book allows her to expand her observations and concerns, and to preserve and celebrate her...
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