New awards launched for emerging writers in regional WA
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
WritingWA has launched two new literary awards to support emerging writers in regional areas of Western Australia. The writingWA Awards, which are being offered in partnership with Curtin University and...
New book design awards open for submissions
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
The Most Beautiful Books—Australia and New Zealand (MBBANZ) award program is now open for submissions, organiser Stuart Geddes announced on Twitter. MBBANZ, which was established to ‘recognise excellence and innovation...
St Leger appointed to Copyright Agency
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Murray St Leger has been appointed deputy chief executive of Copyright Agency and Viscopy, effective immediately. St Leger, a former managing director of McGraw-Hill Australia, has been working as a...
US ebook publisher RosettaBooks to open first UK office
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Ebook publisher RosettaBooks will open its first office outside of the US, reports the Bookseller. The New York-based publisher’s first UK office will be based in London and headed by...
Egmont to launch nonfiction imprint Red Shed
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
In the UK, children’s publisher Egmont will launch a new nonfiction imprint for children aged ‘three to teenage’, reports the Bookseller. Red Shed will be headed by Egmont’s publishing director...
Auckland Writers & Readers Festival schools program authors announced
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival has announced its schools program for 15-16 May. International authors appearing at the event include US author Libba Bray, UK-based author Patrick Ness, UK...
Memorial tribute for Roger Horton
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
A memorial to celebrate the life of Roger Horton will be held at 2pm on Sunday 17 February at Scribe Publications, 18-20 Edward St, Brunswick. Scribe’s publisher, Henry Rosenbloom, writes:...
Vale Jan Ormerod
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Jan Ormerod, Australian author and illustrator, has died aged 67. Sarah Foster, managing director and publisher of Walker Books, writes: ‘One of the first things Jan Ormerod ever said to...
The online experience: children’s bookselling strategies
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
With a number of children’s bookstores now selling online, Portia Lindsay asks several booksellers what works best on the web. Buying a children’s book is often a personal and a...
Line-up for Reading Matters conference announced
Monday, 4 February 2013
The full line-up for the 2013 Reading Matters conference, run by the State Library of Victoria’s Centre for Youth Literature, has been announced. International guests attending the YA books event, which runs from 30 May...
Bestsellers this week
Monday, 4 February 2013
Former MasterChef host Sarah Wilson’s diet book I Quit Sugar (Macmillan) is at the top of the highest new entries chart this week. After Wilson developed a weight problem and...
Quilting book publisher to launch tween imprint
Monday, 4 February 2013
In the US, quilting book publisher C&T Publishing will unveil a tween imprint in March, reports Publishers Weekly. FunStitch Studio will be aimed at 8- to 14-year-old readers and will...
Controversy around 50th-anniversary cover for ‘The Bell Jar’
Monday, 4 February 2013
In the UK, a new cover for Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has been criticised for portraying the book as ‘glorified chick lit’, reports the Guardian. The cover of the...
Masters new general manager of SPN
Monday, 4 February 2013
Mary Masters has been appointed as the new general manager of the Small Press Network (SPN), replacing Zoe Dattner, who announced her decision to step down from the position in...
Writing for Fun: Andy Griffiths on ‘Once Upon a Slime’
Monday, 4 February 2013
In his new book Once Upon a Slime: 45 Fun Ways to Get Writing … Fast! (Pan Macmillan, April) Andy Griffiths gives advice to inspire young writers. The author spoke...
Barnes & Noble and S&S in dispute
Friday, 1 February 2013
US bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has ‘significantly reduced its orders from Simon & Schuster’ following a dispute over terms, reports Publishers Weekly. According to Publishers Weekly, the main reason...
Wheeler Centres launches new program, annual gala
Friday, 1 February 2013
The Wheeler Centre has released its first program for 2013, kicking off the year with its Gala Night of Storytelling based around Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. The...
New UK research centre to examine copyright, inform policy
Friday, 1 February 2013
A new research centre at Glasgow University has been established to examine ‘the changing nature of copyright and the need for new business models in the digital age’, reports the...
Hardie Grant stationery competition finalists announced
Friday, 1 February 2013
Hardie Grant has announced the finalists in its stationery competition. As reported by Books+Publishing, the publisher called for designers, illustrators and artists to submit a concept for three stationery pieces—a...
Australians, New Zealanders on YALSA 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults list
Friday, 1 February 2013
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors are featured in the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Best Fiction for Young Adults list for 2013. They are:...
Telling Tales: Julie Hunt on ‘Song for a Scarlet Runner’
Friday, 1 February 2013
Julie Hunt has created a thrilling tale of life on the run in Song for a Scarlet Runner (A&U, April). The author spoke to Jarrah Moore. You can read Moore’s review...
On tour: Meet the author Gayle Forman
Friday, 1 February 2013
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? ‘Just One Day is a Trojan Horse novel. It trots up to you as a love story between a straight-laced...
Talkback: A preference for digital or printed proofs?
Friday, 1 February 2013
Do you prefer to receive digital or printed proofs? Books+Publishing asked four booksellers. Mandy Macky, owner, Dymocks Adelaide While all of us read on ereaders from time to time, our...
Life, continued: Anna Goldsworthy on ‘Welcome to Your New Life’
Friday, 1 February 2013
In her second memoir, Anna Goldsworthy explores her experience of motherhood, including an irrational fear of losing her newborn down a composting toilet. Joanne Shiells spoke to the author. What...
Murder they wrote: Marion Roberts and Kim Kane on ‘Cry Blue Murder’
Friday, 1 February 2013
Marion Roberts and Kim Kane collaborated on the YA thriller Cry Blue Murder (UQP, May). They spoke to Meredith Lewin. Cry Blue Murder is a contemporary YA thriller that comes...
A year in children’s books: publishers’ top junior picks for 2013
Friday, 1 February 2013
From a Pride and Prejudice-inspired picture book set in an Australian farmyard to a YA thriller that explores the dangers of online communication, publishers tell us their top children’s and...
A serious lack: YA books with Indigenous characters
Friday, 1 February 2013
Why are there so few YA books with Indigenous characters, asks Danielle Binks. Last year I read two wonderful Australian YA books, written by Indigenous authors and featuring Aboriginal protagonists....
Diversity in fantasy: Kylie Chan on ‘Dark Serpent’
Friday, 1 February 2013
Dark Serpent (HarperVoyager, May) is the first book in Kylie Chan’s ‘Celestial Battle’ trilogy, which combines martial arts and magic, and the seventh book in an ongoing story that began...
A survival story: Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch
Friday, 1 February 2013
After its premises and all of its stock were destroyed in the February 2011 earthquake, the Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch has rebuilt outside of the city centre, and flourished. Owner...
Doin’ it for the kids: festival programming for younger readers
Friday, 1 February 2013
Most Australian writers’ festivals offer some children’s events, usually as part of a discrete schools’ program. Kate Blackwood spoke to several festival programmers to get their thoughts on running events...
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