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Small publisher spotlight: Subterranean Ink  Archive

Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Melbourne-based writers’ collective Subterranean Ink is made up of four Australian authors whose work shares ‘common themes’. Founding member Brendan Murphy spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series:...

Small publisher spotlight: About Kids Books  Archive

Wednesday, 9 November 2016
About Kids Books was launched in 2015 in Wollongong, NSW, and specialises in novels for middle-grade readers. Founder (and author and teacher) Di Bates spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small...

Eight things to take home from Frankfurt  Archive

Monday, 7 November 2016
Former Books+Publishing publisher Andrew Wilkins attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, and came away with eight lessons for publishers, agents and booksellers. A week later than usual, this year’s Frankfurt...

Small publisher spotlight: Busybird Publishing  Archive

Thursday, 3 November 2016
Launched in Melbourne in 2009, Busybird Publishing is a ‘boutique micropublisher’ with a focus on ‘altruistic outcomes’. Publications manager Les Zigomanis spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher spotlight’ series:...

On tour: Kate Summerscale  Archive

Thursday, 27 October 2016
UK author Kate Summerscale’s latest book The Wicked Boy (Bloomsbury) is the true story of a Victorian-era juvenile murder case that echoes the ‘outrageous plots’ of a penny dreadful novel. She...

Small publisher spotlight: Threekookaburras  Archive

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Launched in Melbourne in 2013, Threekookaburras has a ‘low-cost, profit-sharing model that slots between self-publishers and the bigger, independent presses’. Founder Annie Hall spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘small publisher...

Small publisher spotlight: Connor Court Publishing  Archive

Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Founded in 2005 in Ballarat, Victoria, and now based in Redland Bay, Queensland, Connor Court Publishing specialises in titles that ‘challenge the status quo’. Founder Anthony Cappello spoke to Books+Publishing...

Small publisher spotlight: Melbourne Books  Archive

Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Founded in 2001, Melbourne Books publishes a ‘unique range of Melbourne themed books covering subjects from food, music and culture to architecture and sport’. Publisher David Tenenbaum spoke to Books+Publishing...

Book bites: In the picture  Archive

Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Several forthcoming picture books take younger readers on a journey abroad, and around Australia. Scribe’s children’s imprint Scribble has translated two ‘modernist picture-book classics’ from the late 1960s into English....

Book bites: Teen talk  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nicole Hayes’ previous YA novels The Whole of My World and One True Thing have won her many fans. Her latest, A Shadow’s Breath (Random House, February), begins with a...

Dead ringer: ‘The Turnkey’ by Allison Rushby  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
Allison Rushby’s middle-grade novel The Turnkey is a ‘page-turning mystery’ set in London’s Highgate Cemetery during the Blitz. Reviewer Maria H Alessandrino spoke to the author. Read her review here....

Between the lines: Gladys Bembo  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
The Brisbane Writers Festival made international news after the controversial opening speech of American author Lionel Shriver. In deciding to stray from her original brief of talking about ‘community and...

Shelf talk: New romantics  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
Summer is the season for beach reads, happy endings, and an abundance of new titles from some of romance fiction’s bestselling authors. In December, Nora Roberts concludes her ‘Guardians’ trilogy...

Shelf talk: Fantastic fiction  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
Nostalgia is very much the watch-word for pop culture at the moment, and sci-fi and fantasy are as gripped by it as everything else is. Anyone reading fantasy in the...

Your store: Blog brainstorming  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
Companies that blog 15-plus times a month get five times more traffic on their websites, according to social media expert Yvonne Adele. This is because each new blog post offers...

Your store: #loveOzYA in action  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
The #LoveOzYA movement has been gaining traction in local bookstores, with a number of booksellers creating dedicated shelves and promotions for Australian YA. One of those booksellers is Dymocks, which...

Editor’s picks: Translated titles  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
The end of the year sees the arrival of several new translated titles. Andrea Hanke rounds up a selection for her editor’s picks. In November, Text is publishing a collection of...

Booking ahead: 2017 fiction preview  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
Several Australian authors make their long-awaited return to publishing next year, alongside some promising debuts. Andrea Hanke and Vicki Stegink round up publishers’ fiction highlights for 2017. (See nonfiction titles here.)...

On tour: Janine di Giovanni  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
US foreign correspondent Janine di Giovanni’s latest book is The Morning They Came for Us (Bloomsbury), an account of the conflict in Syria. She will be touring Australia in February.   ...

Talkback: Improving diversity  Archive

Thursday, 6 October 2016
What can publishing do to improve diversity? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. Publishers need to ask themselves—am I being proactive about the diversity of the voice and author I am about to...

 

 

 

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