Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
‘Scribe, Text, Transit Lounge, UQP and Wakefield Press all have titles longlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin. That means titles by SPN members make up more than half the list!’—the...
Inga Simpson’s ‘Where the Trees Were’
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
‘Queensland writer Inga Simpson’s third novel is a moving meditation on the bonds of childhood friendship and the moral complications of atonement’ ... read Carody Culver’s full review here.
Charts this week
Monday, 4 April 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Road to Ruin Niki Savva Scribe 2 Lady Midnight Cassandra Clare Simon & Schuster 3 Predator Wilbur Smith & Tom Cain...
Terri-ann White: Is the book industry special?
Thursday, 31 March 2016
‘The difference in our industry, dominated by billion-dollar multinational conglomerates but where small independents contribute much of the innovation, is that our product has a voice. In every format we...
Small publisher spotlight: FableCroft Publishing
Thursday, 31 March 2016
ACT-based speculative fiction publisher FableCroft was launched in 2010 by editor Tehani Wessely. Wessely said one of the things that makes her small press unique is that she can ‘conceive...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Sales: Fiction—UQP has sold Turkish rights to The Midnight Dress (Karen Foxlee) to Günışığı Publishing via the Kayi Agency Nonfiction—Spinifex Press has sold German rights to The Screaming of the...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 31 March 2016
‘You are storehouses for the kernels not only of our literary culture but our history, our music, our food culture, our health and legal and technological culture, our visual arts,...
Em Bailey’s ‘The Special Ones’
Thursday, 31 March 2016
‘Em Bailey’s second YA novel is an edge-of-your-seat thriller, and readers of Bailey’s debut Shift will recognise her tendency to use everyday anxieties as her starting point, skilfully increasing the...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Lady Midnight Cassandra Clare Simon & Schuster 2 Property of a Noble Woman Danielle Steel Bantam 3 The Road to Ruin Niki...
Small publisher spotlight: MidnightSun Publishing
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Books+Publishing is launching a new series of small publisher profiles. Each week we will interview the publisher of a small press to find out what makes them tick, what successes...
Smarten up: Professional development in publishing
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Professional development opportunities are a ‘mixed bag’ in the publishing industry, but there are opportunities if you know where to look, writes Portia Lindsay. Read her article from the latest...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
‘The increasing reliance on freelancers means that there’s less on-the-job training’—freelance editor Pamela Hewitt, interviewed in Portia Lindsay’s article on professional development in the book industry in Books+Publishing magazine
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Sales Nonfiction—UQP has sold North American rights to The Hard Light of Day (Rod Moss) to Skyhorse Publishing. Children’s—Walker Books has sold Turkish rights to the first four books of...
Toni Jordan’s ‘Our Tiny, Useless Hearts’
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
‘Following the romantic capering of Fall Girl and the historically set Nine Days, Toni Jordan’s Our Tiny, Useless Hearts is a highly entertaining romp through the complexities of modern relationships’...
Charts this week
Monday, 21 March 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Lady Midnight Cassandra Clare Simon & Schuster 2 The Road to Ruin Niki Savva Scribe 3 15th Affair James Patterson Century 4...
Dominic Smith’s ‘The Last Painting of Sara de Vos’
Thursday, 17 March 2016
‘It will appeal to a wide range of readers, accessible yet complex in the manner of Geraldine Brooks or Anthony Doerr. I predict it will be one of the big...
‘Four horsemen’ the focus of Digital Book World 2016
Thursday, 17 March 2016
‘Digital Book World organiser and The Idea Logical Company CEO Mike Shatzkin set the tone for the conference in an opening speech. Shatzkin said: “As shelf space shrinks, publishers rely...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold UK rights to Skylarking (Kate Mildenhall) to Legend Press; and Polish rights to Rose’s Vintage (Kayte Nunn) to Burda Publishing. HarperCollins has sold world German...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 17 March 2016
‘The advantage is almost always on the side of the cunning social arts satellite than the demented scribbler’—Sydney writer Luke Carman delivers an attack on arts administrators in Melbourne’s literary...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Michael Mosley Simon & Schuster 2 15th Affair James Patterson Century 3 Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer...
Nonfiction dominates at Taipei International Book Exhibition
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
‘The Taiwanese publishing market continues to face a downturn with noted declines in book sales over the past few years, particularly in fiction. Book space in the renowned Eslite Bookstore...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
‘This hasn’t happened by accident—this is a very special book, of extraordinary power, skill, and frankness, published to the accompaniment of an immaculate and highly disciplined release strategy and publicity...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Greek rights to White Gardenia (Belinda Alexandra) to Dioptra Publishing S A; and world Polish rights to The Innocent Mage and A Blight of Mages (both...
Emily Maguire’s ‘An Isolated Incident’
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
‘There has been a proliferation of pretty-dead-girl thrillers in the past few years and it shows no sign of letting up. But don’t let the trend fool you into thinking...
Charts this week
Monday, 7 March 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer Macmillan 2 15th Affair James Patterson Century 3 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Fourth...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
‘A lot of editors are women, particularly in Australia, and I think that comes down to women wanting to work in something they really love doing and being prepared to...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Sales Fiction—A&U has sold rights to The Lake House (Kate Morton) in the following territories: Estonian to Varrak; Bulgarian to Colibri; Russian to Exmo; Turkish to Alfa Basim Dayim Dagitim;...
Helen Garner’s ‘Everywhere I Look’
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
‘I’d probably give Helen Garner five stars for her shopping list; I’ve loved her work since Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I began selling books’ … read...
Does publicity sell books? A case study
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Last year, Captain Honey publishers Roz Hopkins and Natalie Winter successfully crowdfunded their illustrated children’s book Mummy and Mumma Get Married. In a recent blog post, Hopkins writes about the...
Charts this week
Monday, 29 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Fourth Estate 2 Brotherhood in Death J. D. Robb Hachette 3 The Dressmaker (film...
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