Will power: William Yeoman on curating PFWW 2018
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
William Yeoman is the West Australian literary editor and guest curator of the Perth Festival Writers Week (PFWW) 2018. Following the launch of the full program for this year’s festival,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Turkish rights to the first two books in the ‘Phryne Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ series, Cocaine Blues and Flying too High (both Kerry Greenwood); and...
Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s ‘The Lebs’
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
‘Punchbowl Boys High, often dubbed “NSW’s most troubled school”, was the subject of a 2016 autobiographical essay by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Now, that reminiscence of his alma mater has become...
New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Books+Publishing’s first Reviews newsletter for 2018 contains 13 reviews of books publishing in February and March. Tim Winton’s latest novel, The Shepherd’s Hut (Hamish Hamilton, March), received a five-star rating...
Scribble sells rights to ‘Rhyme Cordial’, ‘Grandma Z’
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Scribe’s children’s imprint, Scribble, has sold rights to two forthcoming children’s books. World rights (ex ANZ) to Antonia Pesenti’s board book Rhyme Cordial were sold to Phaidon ahead of its...
Berbay invited to Barcelona children’s literary and arts festival
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Melbourne-based publisher Berbay Publishing has been invited by the Spanish cultural agency Acción Cultural Española to participate in FLIC Professional in March 2018. FLIC is a youth and children’s literary...
Dunmore posthumously awarded Costa Book of the Year for ‘Inside the Wave’
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
In the UK, the late Helen Dunmore has been awarded the £30,000 (A$51,700) Costa Book of the Year award for her poetry collection Inside the Wave (Bloodaxe Books), reports the...
Copyright Agency introduces new nonfiction fellowship
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
The Copyright Agency has announced it has boosted the value of its annual fellowship program from $120,000 to $285,000, including a new $80,000 fellowship for a specific work of nonfiction....
US producer acquires screen rights to ‘Shantaram’
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Producers Anonymous Content and Paramount TV have acquired screen rights to Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram and its sequel, The Mountain Shadow. Deadline Hollywood reports that the producers plan to turn...
ABC Books congratulates Tracey Spicer
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
ABC Books and Harper Collins congratulate Tracey Spicer on being awarded an AM for her work in the media and as an ambassador for charitable and social welfare groups. ABC...
‘Sherlock Holmes’ tops 2017 Audible UK chart
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
In the UK, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection was Audible’s highest-selling title for 2017, reports the Bookseller. The nine-story collection, which is narrated by Stephen Fry, spent...
Lindgren joins BWF as guest artistic director
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
UPLIT has announced Carl Lindgren as the guest artistic director for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival. Lindgren will serve as guest artistic director until the end of 2018, while UPLIT’s...
Fremantle Press to release three new editions of ‘A Fortunate Life’
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Fremantle Press will release three new editions of A B Facey’s 1981 novel A Fortunate Life this year, after publication rights recently returned to the small publisher. Fremantle Press will...
PRH reveals shortlist for its inaugural literary prize
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the shortlist for its inaugural PRH Australia Literary Prize, worth $20,000. The prize aims to find and develop new Australian authors of literary fiction...
Book industry figures among 2018 Australia Day honours recipients
Monday, 29 January 2018
A number of book industry figures have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Janet McCalman was made Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia,...
New prize launched for thrillers without violence against women
Monday, 29 January 2018
UK screenwriter Bridget Lawless has launched the Staunch Book Prize—an award for the best thriller novel in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered, reports the...
Shining a light: Laura Elvery on ‘Trick of the Light’
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Laura Elvery’s debut short-story collection Trick of the Light (UQP, March) comprises 24 ‘meticulously crafted’ short stories ranging in style from ‘stark realism to light speculative fiction’, writes reviewer Alan...
The Shepherd’s Hut (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Jaxie Clackton is a teenager on the run in the parched, unforgiving landscape bordering the salt lakes by the Western Australian desert. Convinced he’ll be held responsible for the accidental...
Echo acquires Morris, Evans and Jeffreys
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Bonnier Publishing’s Echo imprint has acquired three new novels, set for release in 2018 and 2019. Echo had acquired world rights to the second novel by Heather Morris, whose debut,...
HarperCollins sales up 8.1% as Big Four’s market share shrinks
Thursday, 25 January 2018
In the UK, HarperCollins’ consumer sales grew 8.1% in value in 2017, while the Big Four’s total market share dipped slightly, reports the Bookseller. The combined sales for the Big...
UNE researcher awarded Fulbright scholarship to study US-based Australian authors
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Anne Pender, professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of New England, has received a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to study the ‘lives and output’ of three Australian authors who...
WHSmith high street store Christmas sales down four percent
Thursday, 25 January 2018
In the UK, sales at bookselling chain WHSmith’s high street stores fell four percent like-for-like over the Christmas period—a decline partly attributed to the fall in sales of spoof humour...
No ‘Daily’ on Friday
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Please note that, due to the Australia Day holiday on Friday, the next Daily newsletter will be published on Monday, 29 January.
RiP Meme McDonald
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Author Meme McDonald has died, aged 63. McDonald was the author of nine books for adults and younger readers, including The Binna Binna Man (A&U), which was co-written with Aboriginal...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold US rights to The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose) to Algonquin; and German and Turkish rights to The Dark Lake (Sarah Bailey) to...
Regional WA library launches free online movie-streaming service
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in regional WA has launched a free online movie-streaming service, for members of the William Grundt Memorial Library. Library members can access more than 30,000 films...
Fifteen Somserset libraries under threat of closure
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
In the UK, 15 out of Somerset County’s 34 libraries are under threat of closure unless voluntary staff can be found to run the service, reports the Guardian. The council...
Author Earnings to capture real-time sales data; releases 2017 US sales report
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
US-based ebook analysts Author Earnings has expanded its tracking of online US print, audio and digital book sales to capture daily data. The data analysis company previously released quarterly reports...
Margaret River Short Story Competition 2018 winner announced
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Andrew Roff has won the 2018 Margaret River Short Story Competition for his story ‘Pigface’. Cassie Hamer came in second place with her story, ‘Habitat’, while Tiffany Hastie was selected...
Hachette acquires new novel by Hannah Richell
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Hachette Australia has acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Hannah Richell’s new novel, The Peacock Summer, in a joint deal with Orion UK. Hachette describes the novel as ‘an...
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