Thursday, 22 October 2015
Mary Norris is a copyeditor for the New Yorker and the author of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Text). She will be appearing at the Wheeler...

Thursday, 22 October 2015
Be Mindful and Simplify Your Life (Kate James, January) is ‘a cracking way to start the year’, says Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes. This book of useful and positive bite-size tips will be...

Monday, 19 October 2015
Caitlin Neville recently launched her freelance publicity business Tiny Fox Communications after working as a publicist for Hardie Grant Books, Pan Macmillan and HarperCollins. She shares her career journey.I was the...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
Ayelet Waldman is the author of several novels and the nonfiction book Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace (Two Roads). She will be travelling...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
Before retiring as director of Aboriginal Studies Press, Rhonda Black oversaw the publication of the Guidelines for Ethical Publishing, a free resource to assist publishers working with Aboriginal and Torres...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
  While many Australian publishers have outsourced their ebook production, there is a strong case for building those skills in-house, writes Simon Collinson. It’s no secret that many in the...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
Two booksellers share their rental experiences with Brad Jefferies.According to Australian Booksellers Association CEO Joel Becker, one of the leading causes of recent bookshop closures has been the cost of leasing. Electric...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
Pages & Pages Booksellers in Sydney has come up with a creative new way to promote children’s books as gifts for newborns.The ‘Pages & Pages Baby Book Bouquet’ contains seven...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
Riverbend Books in Brisbane is hoping to push its customers’ reading endurance with a new Literary Book Camp.Readers who sign up to the boot camp are sent a secret list...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
Forget coffee and cupcakes. Scrumptious Reads, a culinary bookstore and event space based in Brisbane, is specialising in matcha-based drinks and sweets. Owner Julie Tjiandra has partnered with her friend Sinmei...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
Yoga, feminism and travel inform this month’s editor’s picks. Curious fictionHow can I resist a novel that has a literary translator as its protagonist (not to mention an indie bookshop owner...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
The following adult colouring books don’t claim to promote mindfulness, but a few hours with these seems like a pretty stress-free activity (and they also make fun, on-trend stocking stuffers). This...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
It’s silly season at Affirm Press, which has a handful of humour books coming out toward the end of the year. Death by Coconut—50 Things More Dangerous than a Shark...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
The most hotly anticipated romantic series finale Kings Rising—the third book in C S Pacat’s ‘The Captive Prince’ trilogy (Viking)—comes out in February and readers can’t wait! Pacat spearheads the...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
Getting books selected for schools requires an understanding of multiple education associations, their expectations and concerns—and a good dose of luck, writes Danielle Binks. Trying to get an overview of how...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
When Gavin Williams and his wife purchased the long-running Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills, they had to win over locals who described it as ‘their bookshop’. Williams shares his...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
Do you think ebook conversion is best handled in-house or externally? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. Mark Robinson, sales and marketing manager, Exisle Publishing As an early entrant in the ebook...

Sunday, 18 October 2015
In the picture Aaron Blabey is back with I Need a Hug (Scholastic, December), about a little porcupine who just wants a cuddle. Told in speech bubbles, the simple text...