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Random House launches digital-first teen romance imprint

Friday, 8 March 2013
Random House has launched a digital-first romance imprint for teen readers and is currently inviting submissions. Called Hooked, the imprint will publish stories for readers aged 15-plus that are ‘full of...

Lambda Literary Awards finalists announced

Friday, 8 March 2013
The finalists of the 25th Lambda Literary Awards, known also as the ‘Lammys’, have been announced by the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) in Los Angeles. The awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay,...

Longlists for book translation awards announced

Thursday, 7 March 2013
The longlists for two international awards for books translated into English have been announced this week. In the UK, the longlist for the Independent Foreign Prize, run by literary charity Booktrust,...

Random House launches new-release iPad app

Thursday, 7 March 2013
Random House Australia has created a free iPad app that highlights 12 new-release Random House titles each month. The Random House New Books App, which was released at the start of...

BBC denies sale of Lonely Planet

Thursday, 7 March 2013
Following reports that the BBC has sold its majority stake in Lonely Planet, the BBC has made a statement denying that any deal has been done. A spokesman for BBC...

Milne and Funder join campaign for tax-free Miles Franklin Award

Thursday, 7 March 2013
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne and 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Anna Funder have put their support behind a campaign to make the Miles Franklin Literary Award prize money...

Steggall wins Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship

Thursday, 7 March 2013
Stephany Steggall has won the 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Writers Victoria said in a statement that Steggall will use the $10,000 fellowship to work on a biography of Australian...

2013 APA Book Design Awards shortlists announced

Thursday, 7 March 2013
The shortlisted titles for this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted for the Children’s Cover of the Year Award are: I Can Jump Puddles: Australian Children’s...

New name for ‘First Tuesday Book Club’

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
The ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club has been renamed the Book Club. A spokesperson for the program told Books+Publishing that the First Tuesday Book Club team felt ‘it was time...

New board members for NSW Writers’ Centre

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Pantera Press CEO Alison Green, literary agent and publicist Benython Oldfield, author Emily Maguire, and author and editor Jean Bedford have joined the board of the New South Wales Writers’...

Law firm investigating Author Solutions for ‘deceptive practices’

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
A New York law firm has said it is investigating self-publishing platform Author Solutions for ‘deceptive practices’, reports Shelf Awareness. Law firm Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart said on its website that it...

Larsen appointed director of Writers Victoria

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Kate Larsen has been appointed director of Writers Victoria, commencing on 13 May. Larsen, an arts administrator, writer and poet, replaces former Writers Victoria director Roderick Poole, who left the...

Scholastic acquires Koala Books

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Scholastic Australia has announced that it has acquired children’s publisher Koala Books. Scholastic said in a statement that the Koala Books list will be published as an imprint of Scholastic...

Yale library announces winners of $1.35 million Windham Campbell Prizes

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
In the US, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has announced the winners of the inaugural Windham Campbell Prizes, worth US$1.35 million (A$1.32 million), reports Publishers Weekly. The...

VIDA reveals 2012 stats on gender split in lit mags

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
For the third year in a row, US-based organisation VIDA has released figures on how many women and men were reviewed in, or wrote for, various high-profile literary publications. The...

Jones joins ABA as marketing/project officer

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has appointed Steve Jones to the newly created position of marketing/project officer. Jones is a former manager of Books Kinokuniya in Sydney and a consultant...

Henderson to return to Random House

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Random House has announced that Fiona Henderson will return to the publisher in the role of nonfiction publisher. Henderson, who is leaving her role as head of nonfiction at HarperCollins, will...

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
‘Given the great success of the Quarterly Essay series, including most recently as an ebook, we saw a need and desire for punchy, accessible, authoritative short books about today’s key...

McDonald wins 2013 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Wellington illustrator Patrick McDonald has won the 2013 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award, which is sponsored by Random House New Zealand. McDonald will receive a cash prize of NZ$1500 (A$1215) and mentoring...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world English language rights (ex ANZ) for The Death of Napoleon (Simon Leys) to the New York Review of Books. Stephanie Abou from Foundry Literary +...

In brief

Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Library industry welcomes Federal Government education reform, but says more can be done The Australian School Library Association (ASLA), the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and library software supplier...

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