Thursday, 13 December 2012
Karen Foxlee suffered from severe ‘second novel syndrome’ while working on her suspenseful drama The Midnight Dress. She spoke to Melanie Barton. How did it feel to work on your...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
In 2011 ‘binge-drinking health reporter’ Jill Stark decided to take a break from alcohol, and write a book about it. She spoke to Paula Grunseit. What place has alcohol had...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
What does a sales rep for a digital-only publisher do all day? We spoke to Anne Treasure, digital marketing executive at Momentum.  What was your original job description? Has it...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?  ‘A portrait of a soldier in Iraq.’ You can see that self-promotion does not come naturally to me. What is the...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
Local fiction Richard Flanagan’s first novel in five years is Random House publishing director Nikki Christer’s pick for 2013. She describes The Narrow Road to the Deep North (August) as...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
Hardie Grant Books sales rep Mandy Wildsmith has spent 18 years on the road in Victoria and Tasmania. She shares five days from her diary.  MONDAY  The alarm screams although...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
The newly launched My Identifiers platform will help publishers manage their ISBNs and market their books, reports Eloise Keating.  Thorpe-Bowker has officially launched the My Identifiers platform—a new website for...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
What are the potential implications of a merger between Penguin and Random House for the business models of small, independent publishers? Bookseller+Publisher spoke to three publishers. Henry Rosenbloom, publisher, Scribe ...

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Simon & Schuster UK chief executive and managing director Ian Chapman visited Australia in November to help celebrate Simon & Schuster Australia’s 25th anniversary. He spoke to Eloise Keating. You’re...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Several weeks ago we published an open letter to the publishing industry from Sleepers Publishing creative director and Small Press Network general manager Zoe Dattner. In it, Dattner calls for...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of Print on Demand (PoD) publishing. At the Independent Publishers Conference in Melbourne on Friday 9 November, Black Inc. publisher Sophy Williams shared a concrete...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Best known for his book Raising Boys, psychologist Steve Biddulph has written a companion piece, Steve Biddulph’s Raising Girls (Finch Publishing, January). The author spoke to Thuy On. Read the...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Here at Books for Cooks, we are looking long and hard at the forthcoming publishers’ catalogues and book lists for Christmas. It’s with a mixture of equal parts excitement and...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
When REDgroup collapsed in 2011, franchise co-owner Banafsheh Serov rebranded her family’s stores as Sydney independent Your Bookshop. She now runs four stores. This story does not begin in Sydney,...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
The end of the year brings collections aplenty and some excellent YA, writes Andrea Hanke. Of the many collections coming out in the next few months, the one I’m most...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Pamela Cook has created a feisty new character in Eve, the heroine of Blackwattle Lake (Hachette, December). The author spoke to Sarina Gale.  Read the review here. You capture the...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
At Christmas, it’s best to remember that the rarities in life make for the best gifts. Rarely does a Manga artist gain such success and popularity on his first try;...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
‘How do we fix this mess?’ asks Robert Peston in his book of the same name (Hodder, November). The financial crash of 2007/8 and the subsequent economic slump in much...