Bad Karma: Mark Lamprell on ‘The Full Ridiculous’
Monday, 15 July 2013
‘The Full Ridiculous (Text, October) reminds us that sometimes, to really appreciate the beautiful highs of life, you need to hit rock bottom first,’ writes reviewer Louise Fay. She spoke...
A life education: Chris Womersley on ‘Cairo’
Monday, 15 July 2013
In his new novel Cairo (Scribe September), Chris Womersley recreates Melbourne life in the 1980s. The author spoke to Martin Shaw. This novel begs the question: what were you doing in...
Enter the tiger: Fiona McFarlane on ‘The Night Guest’
Monday, 15 July 2013
Fiona McFarlane’s debut novel The Night Guest (Hamish Hamilton, September) ‘brims with fine detail’, writes reviewer Joanne Shiells. She spoke to the author. How did you manage to inhabit the...
On tour: Meet the author Lucy Knisley
Monday, 15 July 2013
US author, illustrator and comic book artist Lucy Knisley is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s schools program. Knisley’s books include French Milk (Touchstone) and Relish (First...
I dream of genies: Lynda Nixon and Jennifer McBride on ‘Shimmer’
Monday, 15 July 2013
Co-authors and sisters Lynda Nixon and Jennifer McBride have written Shimmer (Fremantle Press, October) for younger readers about a teenage genie who is sent to Earth. They spoke to Dani Solomon. One...
Found in translation: Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke and Julia Marshall
Monday, 15 July 2013
Berbay Publishing and Gecko Press have built their publishing lists by cherry-picking the best children’s books from around the world, reports Kate Blackwood. When Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke, managing director at Melbourne’s...
Kicking goals: Sports books for kids
Monday, 15 July 2013
Teamwork, competition, glory: sport has all the ingredients for an exciting read. Andrew Wrathall spoke to some publishers and booksellers about sport books for children. The Australian Football League (AFL)...
New Adult: using it or losing it?
Monday, 15 July 2013
Australian publishers are starting to use the term in their marketing material, but what exactly is new adult, and how is it being used by booksellers? Cordelia Rice reports. In...
‘Larrikins’ wins 2013 Ernest Scott Prize
Monday, 15 July 2013
Larrikins: A History by Melissa Bellanta (UQP) has won the 2013 Ernest Scott Prize for history, presented by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts. Judges Mark Finnane from Griffith...
‘Australia’s Favourite Bookshop’ competition underway
Monday, 15 July 2013
The Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) competition to find Australia’s Favourite Bookshop is now underway. Voting in the national competition opened on 13 July and will run until 5 August. The winner...
Talkback: industry involvement in world book events
Monday, 15 July 2013
Should the Australian book industry get more involved in international events such as World Book Night? Books+Publishing asked three booksellers. Mike Gratwick, co-owner, Dymocks Busselton No, I don’t believe that...
Second (shelf) life
Monday, 15 July 2013
Portia Lindsay finds out what publishers can do to give underperforming titles a second chance. For a book that doesn’t capture the audience’s attention through positive (or with shrinking literary...
‘Australia’s Favourite Bookshop’ competition kicks off this weekend
Friday, 12 July 2013
A national search for Australia’s Favourite Bookshop will officially kick off tomorrow, 13 July, ahead of this year’s National Bookshop Day on 10 August. The competition is one of a...
Baker & Taylor to offer publishing services through Bookmasters partnership
Friday, 12 July 2013
In the US, book distributor and library supplier Baker & Taylor has entered into a ‘strategic partnership’ with publishing services company Bookmasters, which has been acquired by Baker & Taylor’s...
Webster retires from RMIT University; O’Shaughnessy appointed program director of grad dip in editing and publishing
Friday, 12 July 2013
Michael Webster has announced his retirement as program director of the graduate diploma in editing and publishing at RMIT University in Melbourne. ‘“Retired” is a dreadful word, but after a...
Amazon patents supplementary content for ebooks
Friday, 12 July 2013
Amazon has been granted a US patent for supplementary content attached to ebooks, reports Wired, which compares the patent to ‘DVD extras’. The patent ‘Customized Electronic Book with Supplemental Content’, which...
Express Media Young Writers Innovation Prize winners announced
Friday, 12 July 2013
Three projects have won the inaugural Young Writers Innovation Prize, presented by Express Media for innovative projects in the fields of literature and publishing. Writer and reviewer Daniel Golding has...
‘The Hoopla’ creators launch teen website with books section
Thursday, 11 July 2013
The creators of The Hoopla have launched a new website for teenage girls called Birdee, which features a dedicated section about books. Birdee publisher Jane Waterhouse told Books+Publishing that the website’s books section,...
Davitt Awards 2013 finalists announced
Thursday, 11 July 2013
The finalists for this year’s Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime Australia for the best crime and mystery books by Australian women in 2012, have been announced. The finalists...
Space and time: Scott Baker on ‘The Rule of Knowledge’
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Scott Baker’s time-travel thriller The Rule of Knowledge (Hachette) is out in September. Reviewer Lachlan Jobbins said the book ‘gets better and better the more you read’. You can read his...
Authors pen ‘literary tours’ for the ‘Telegraph’
Thursday, 11 July 2013
In a new series called ‘Flights of the Imagination’, the Telegraph in the UK has asked a number of authors to write ‘literary tours of the places they know best’....
Apple loses ebook price-fixing case; ACCC to ‘continue to follow developments’
Thursday, 11 July 2013
A US court has found that Apple conspired with publishers to raise the retail prices of ebooks. Over the three-week trial, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sought to prove...
Amazon adds comics, graphic novel imprint
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
In the US, Amazon has added a new imprint for comic books and graphic novels called Jet City Comics, reports Publishers Weekly. The imprint will feature adaptations of comics, short stories...
Ned Kelly Awards 2013 longlists announced
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
The longlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing have been announced. The longlisted titles in the full-length book categories are: Best fiction Antidote to Murder (Felicity Young,...
Seth asked to return advance for ‘A Suitable Boy’ sequel
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Indian author Vikram Seth has been asked to return a US$1.7 million (approximately A$1.9 million) advance for the sequel to his bestselling novel A Suitable Boy (Penguin) after failing to...
Inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships announced
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Angela Slatter, Kristina Olsson and Patrick Holland have been announced as the winners of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. The three authors, who were chosen from a field of 48...
ASA launches manuscript development service
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a manuscript development service to support authors with a substantial work-in-progress. As part of the service, an author nominates a developmental editor...
Loukakis, Cunningham respond to Australia Council restructure
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Last week’s announcement of the new Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has been met with some concern from the book industry over the lack of representation of...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold UK English language rights to The Scrivener’s Tale (Fiona McIntosh); and Bulgarian translation rights to The Right Hand of God (Russell Kirkpatrick). Spinifex Press has sold...
Vale Paul Alford
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Paul Alford, owner of book distributor TB Clarke and long-time member of the Australian publishing industry, has died. Gary Pengelly, general manager of Thorpe-Bowker, writes: ‘On Monday this week I...
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