Picture this: Market growth for illustrated children’s nonfiction
Thursday, 16 July 2015
A renewed interest in books as beautiful objects has boosted the market for illustrated children’s nonfiction, writes Carody Culver. While most people tend to think of picture books in terms of fiction,...
Campus calling: Karen Russell on her bookselling career
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Karen Russell is a career Co-op bookseller who spent a long time managing the Co-op Sunshine Coast store. She shares her career journey.I started my career with the Co-op at...
Doing it for the kids: Teacher-librarian Susan La Marca shares her career journey
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Susan La Marca is a teacher-librarian at a Catholic girls’ college in Melbourne, who has also worked as an academic, editor, reviewer and writer. She shares her career journey.I did...
Father’s Day favourites: Gift ideas for dad
Thursday, 16 July 2015
With a wide range of titles on offer, no dad’s bedside table should be empty after Father’s Day. Tim Coronel selects some highlights. All are August or September releases.FictionDarian Richards...
Child’s play: Jen Storer on ‘Danny Best: Full On’
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Jen Storer and illustrator Mitch Vane have collaborated on a new junior fiction series about Danny Best and his neighbourhood crew. The first book, Danny Best: Full On, will be available...
On tour: Meet the author Daniel Handler
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Daniel Handler is best-known for his ‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events’ series. His latest book for adults, We Are Pirates (Bloomsbury), is about a father and daughter, and...
On tour: Meet the author Kitty Crowther
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Kitty Crowther is a Belgian children’s book author and illustrator whose latest books are the ‘Poka & Mia’ series (Tate Publishing). In 2010 she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award....
Book bites: Forthcoming junior titles
Thursday, 16 July 2015
In the pictureA book about books is hard to resist. The Great and Wondrous Storyteller by Michael Scott Parkinson (The Five Mile Press, August) features a cast of colourful, cartoonish...
A bridge too far: Sci-fi versus fantasy
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Why is fantasy trumping science-fiction on the shelves? Sci-fi author David M Henley believes ‘technobabble, moralising and a high chance of crapness’ may be to blame. Though often huddled together in...
Talkback: Universal cover design
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Do you think publishers should use the same book cover for all territories where possible? Books+Publishing asked four booksellers.Anna Low, owner, Potts Point BookshopI don’t think publishers should keep the...
Talking points: Lesley and Tammy Williams on ‘Not Just Black and White’
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Not Just Black and White (UQP, September) is a memoir that takes the form of a ‘conversation in print’ between mother and daughter Lesley and Tammy Williams. They spoke to...
Editor’s picks
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Andrea Hanke recommends her favourite forthcoming books byfemale authors.I feel like my reading has always been fairly evenly split between female and male authors, although I really should start keeping a...
Black Inc. launches ‘online book club community’
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Black Inc. has launched an ‘online book club community’ to promote Black Inc. and Nero titles to members of book clubs.‘Read between the Wines’, which has its own website, quarterly...
US authors call for antitrust investigation into Amazon
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
In the US, Authors United, a loose coalition who protested Amazon during its 2014 dispute with Hachette US, has asked members to sign a letter calling for the Department of...
Your Bookshop closes two stores
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Sydney independent bookselling chain Your Bookshop has closed two of its stores.The Blacktown store, which was located at the Westpoint Shopping Centre, and the Top Ryde store, at the Top Ryde...
Creative Clunes awarded grant to travel to Paju Book City, South Korea
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Creative Victoria has awarded a $12,000 grant to Creative Clunes for a delegation to travel from Clunes in Victoria to Paju Book City in South Korea to develop collaborative projects...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
SalesFiction—The Drummond Agency has sold German rights to The Trivia Man (Deborah O’Brien) in a pre-empt to Goldmann, via Annelie Geissler at Mohrbooks.Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to...
Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2015 winners announced
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
The winners of the 2015 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced at a ceremony at the State Library of New South Wales.The $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award,...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
‘Although there are some regular successes in terms of rights sales of Oz titles into various territories around the world, it’s haphazard, and there are some good titles I suspect...
Joint winners announced for 2015 Ernest Scott Prize
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Alan Atkinson’s The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation (UNSW Press) and Tom Brooking’s Richard Seddon, King of God’s Own: The Life and Times of New Zealand’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister...
Eggleton wins Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Literacy consultant, teacher and author Jill Eggleton has won the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for ‘outstanding contribution to New Zealand children’s literature and literacy’.As a teacher, Eggleton implemented literacy programs...
NLA and ANU to share digital access
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
The National Library of Australia (NLA) and the Australian National University (ANU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding enabling them to share digital access to their collections, reports PSNews.ANU deputy...
NZ library to hold self-publishing workshops
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
In New Zealand, Paraparaumu Library is running a series of self-publishing workshops for aspiring authors, reports Voxy. Beginning in July, the workshops cover a range of practical topics, including using...
ALIA lobby group launches ‘cooking for copyright’ protest
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) lobby group FAIR is holding a Cooking for Copyright Day on Friday 31 July to protest current copyright law.FAIR argues that copyright law...
Shaw joins Alex Adsett Publishing Services, announces sub-agenting services
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Outgoing Readings books division manager Martin Shaw will join Alex Adsett Publishing Services this month.Shaw, who is moving to Germany, has joined the company as a literary agent specialising in...
Affirm signs 10-book deal with Oz press photographer
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Affirm Press has signed a 10-book deal with Australia press photographer Bruce Postle to publish a photography series reflecting on the past 50 years of Australian life.Affirm Press publishing director...
Festival of Dangerous Ideas program launched
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
The annual Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) has announced its 2015 program.Presented by the Sydney Opera House and the Ethics Centre, the festival invites ‘thinkers and culture creators’ from around...
Thriller Awards 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
International Thriller Writers (ITW) has announced the winners of the 2015 Thriller Awards. Winning titles include: The Fever (Megan Abbott, Picador) for Best Hardcover Novel; The Weight of Blood (Laura McHugh,...
Hachette Australia cancels ‘Millennium’ tattoo promotion
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Hachette Australia has cancelled a tattoo promotional campaign around the new ‘Millennium’ title, The Girl in the Spider’s Web (MacLehose Press), due to complaints that the stunt was offensive. Originally labelled as ‘tatvertising’,...
Michaela McGuire appointed EWF festival director
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has appointed author and Women of Letters founder Michaela McGuire as its new festival director and co-CEO, beginning on 20 July.McGuire replaces outgoing festival director...
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