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On tour: Meet the author Roxane Gay

Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Roxane Gay is the writer of the novel An Untamed State (Corsair) and the collection of essays Bad Feminist (Corsair). She will be a guest of Adelaide Writers’ Week and...

University publishing symposium to be held in Canberra in March

Monday, 2 February 2015
A one-off symposium on university publishing will be held at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra in March.The ‘Reinventing university publishing’ symposium, to be held from 17-19 March, brings together representatives from university presses,...

New book to advise authors on publicity campaigns

Monday, 2 February 2015
A ‘world-first’ guide for authors running their own publicity campaigns in Australia will be published next month.The DIY Book PR Guide: The HAPPIER Guide to Do-it-yourself Book Publicity in Seven Easy Steps is written...

Amazon reports net loss of US$241 million in 2014

Monday, 2 February 2015
Amazon has released fourth-quarter and full-year figures, reports Publishers Weekly. For the full year, the online retailer’s sales increased 20% to US$88.99 billion (A$1.14 billion), but operating income was only US$178...

S&S launches North Star Way

Monday, 2 February 2015
Simon & Schuster US has launched North Star Way, an imprint and service to help authors to build their public profile, said the company in a statement. North Star Way...

Bestsellers this week

Monday, 2 February 2015
The film tie-in edition of American Sniper (Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice, HarperCollins) has jumped from fourth to first spot in this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart and is number one...

Enright appointed inaugural Irish fiction laureate

Friday, 30 January 2015
Anne Enright has been appointed the inaugural laureate of Irish fiction, reports the Bookseller. As part of the role, which is worth €150,000 (A$218,630) over its three-year term, Enright will...

Australian author Colleen McCullough dies

Friday, 30 January 2015
Australian author Colleen McCullough has died aged 77.The author passed away on 29 January in hospital on Norfolk Island.McCullough’s publisher HarperCollins has released a statement paying tribute to ‘one of Australia’s most...

Power play: Meg McKinlay on ‘A Single Stone’

Friday, 30 January 2015
Meg McKinlay’s novel for younger readers A Single Stone (Walker Books, May) ‘manages to pose big questions about gender and power, and thoroughly entertain’, writes reviewer Frances Atkinson. She spoke to...

Indie Awards 2015 shortlists announced

Thursday, 29 January 2015
The shortlists for the 2015 Indie Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Fiction When the Night Comes (Favel Parrett, Hachette) Amnesia (Peter Carey,...

Chinese authors required to register real names online

Thursday, 29 January 2015
In China, the government has introduced measures that require authors to provide their real names when they publish online, reports the New York Times. Under the new guidelines on online...

Quote of the week

Thursday, 29 January 2015
‘New Zealand has the misfortune in not having a lot of confidence in the brains of its citizens. There is a lot of embarrassment, a lot of discrediting that goes...

Rights round-up 

Thursday, 29 January 2015
SalesFiction—HarperCollins has sold Hungarian rights to Silver Wattle and Sapphire Skies (both Belinda Alexandra). Spinifex Press has sold UK rights to Haifa Fragments (Khulud Khamis); and Italian rights to Haifa...

Librarians among 2015 Australia Day honours recipients

Thursday, 29 January 2015
Librarians and library advocates are among the recipients of the 2015 Australia Day honours, which were presented on 26 January. Thomas Cochrane was awarded an AM for ‘significant service to...

Gallipoli diary transcribed by WA state library

Thursday, 29 January 2015
The war diary of WA soldier Captain Beresford Everett Bardwell is being transcribed by the State Library of Western Australia with help from volunteers, reports PerthNow. One of the first...

International library news

Thursday, 29 January 2015
British Library opens National Newspaper BuildingIn the UK, more than 60 million newspapers spanning three centuries will be housed in a new building in West Yorkshire operated by the British...

Fagan appointed head of marketing and publicity at Nero 

Thursday, 29 January 2015
Kelly Fagan has been appointed to the newly created role of head of marketing and publicity for Black Inc. mass-market imprint Nero. Fagan, who was previously publicity manager at HarperCollins, will start in...

On tour: Meet the author Joanna Rakoff 

Thursday, 29 January 2015
Joanna Rakoff’s memoir My Salinger Year was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. Rakoff will be travelling to the Perth Writers Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week in February and March. What would...

Pickering appointed digital affairs manager at Exisle 

Thursday, 29 January 2015
Exisle Publishing has appointed Matthew Pickering to the newly created role of digital affairs manager.Pickering, who will be based in Exisle’s Auckland office, will manage the publisher’s digital data and oversee digital operations in...

‘H is for Hawk’ named Costa Book of the Year

Wednesday, 28 January 2015
In the UK, Helen Macdonald’s H is For Hawk (Vintage) has won the £30,000 (A$57,460) Costa Book of the Year award after previously winning the Biography category. The judges described Macdonald’s...

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards announced tonight

Wednesday, 28 January 2015
The winners of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards will be announced in Melbourne tonight.The announcement will take place at a ceremony at Parliament House from 5pm.To view the shortlisted titles,...

Francophilia: Patti Miller on ‘Ransacking Paris’ 

Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Patti Miller’s Ransacking Paris (UQP, April) is ‘that rare object—a book for anyone who believes we don’t need any more expat memoirs’, writes reviewer Max Oliver. He spoke to the...

Tesco to close blinkbox Books

Tuesday, 27 January 2015
UK supermarket chain Tesco will close its ebook platform blinkbox Books at the end of February after failing to reach an agreement to sell the platform to Waterstones, reports the Bookseller....

 

 

 

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