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Inky Awards 2019 shortlists announced

Friday, 19 July 2019
The shortlists for the 2019 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by State Library Victoria (SLV) for local and international fiction, poetry, anthologies and graphic novels written...

Thompson wins 2019 Arthur C Clarke Award for ‘Rosewater’

Thursday, 18 July 2019
Tade Thompson’s Rosewater (Orbit) has won the 2019 Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction, reports the Guardian. Set in a future Africa, the events of Rosewater take place in a...

Educational Publishing Awards 2019 shortlists announced

Wednesday, 17 July 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2019 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). This year's awards feature a new category for scholarly nonfiction book of the...

RiP Kerry Reed-Gilbert

Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Author, poet and Aboriginal activist Kerry Reed-Gilbert has died, aged 62. Reed-Gilbert was a Wiradjuri elder, poet, writer, activist and artist. She was the author and editor of numerous works...

Publicity round-up

Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Books+Publishing’s weekly publicity round-up covers forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Nonfiction Society, arts & culture Penelope &...

Jane Curry: Editing has become a gendered profession

Wednesday, 17 July 2019
'[Editing] is now seen as a female profession and, like nursing and teaching, it is undervalued as a result. Editors may ‘lean in’ in terms of commitment and skill but...

Hidden in plain sight: Jane Curry on the role of the editor

Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Ventura Press founder Jane Curry explores the role of the editor. 'Who’s the editor?’ I have only been asked this question once in my career and it was by a...

Book buyer spotlight: James Bennett’s buying team

Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Australian library supplier James Bennett’s 11-strong buying team combines expertise from the bookselling, library and publishing sectors. Buyer Louise Oliver spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘book buyer spotlight’ series. How long...

Hachette acquires VPLA winner in ‘competitive’ auction

Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Hachette has acquired ANZ rights to Victorian Premier’s unpublished manuscript prize-winner Kokomo by Victoria Hannan in a two-book deal. Hachette head of literary Robert Watkins acquired rights from Pippa Masson...

LoveOzYA relaunches with new committee

Tuesday, 16 July 2019
Grassroots movement LoveOzYA is relaunching with a new committee and a 'reinvigorated mission'. According to a statement posted online, the LoveOzYA website was hacked earlier in the year but has...

Davitt Awards 2019 shortlists announced

Tuesday, 16 July 2019
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2019 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each category are: Adult novel This...

Canberra Writers Festival 2019 program launched

Monday, 15 July 2019
Canberra Writers Festival has announced the full line-up of guest speakers for its festival program, which runs under the theme ‘power, politics and passion’ from 21–25 August. Over 160 authors...

Publishers Weekly

Monday, 15 July 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This edition features...

Charts this week

Monday, 15 July 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The World's Worst Teachers David Walliams HarperCollins 2 Pig the Tourist Aaron Blabey Omnibus Books 3 The Fast 800 Recipe Book Clare...

Ruby romance award 2019 finalists announced

Friday, 12 July 2019
The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year Award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Contemporary romance...

Winners of inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize announced

Friday, 12 July 2019
In the UK, the winners of the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize (CWIP) have been announced. In the published author category, Laura Steven was awarded for her YA novel...

‘Axiomatic’ sold to UK’s Fitzcarraldo Editions

Friday, 12 July 2019
Brow Books has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Maria Tumarkin’s Axiomatic to independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions. Publisher Jacques Testard acquired the book, and Fitzcarraldo will publish Axiomatic...

Melbourne Writers Festival program announced

Thursday, 11 July 2019
The full program for the 2019 Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 30 August to 8 September, has been announced. The program will run under the theme ‘When We Talk...

Write-ability fellowships 2019 recipients announced

Thursday, 11 July 2019
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of its 2019 Write-ability fellowships. The following five emerging writers with disability were awarded the fellowships: Alex Creece for 'Neurodifficult', a collection of experimental...

2019 ABA conference: value, volume down YTD; HR, sales discussed

Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Nielsen Book associate director Julie Winters presented an overview of the Australian book market at the 2019 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference. Winters reported a 2.6% decline in Australian book...

Susannah Bowen: Six things to know about book marketing

Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Susannah Bowen is the head of marketing (higher education) for Cengage Australia and, with Alison Baverstock, the author of How to Market Books (Routledge). Here, Bowen shares her tips for...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Sales Fiction Transit Lounge has sold the film option for Soon (Lois Murphy) to Cenozoic Pictures. Children’s Mary Hare at ALC Agency has licensed What’s in Your Mind Today? (Louise Bladen...

HarperCollins to publish ‘electrifying’ debut novel; UK, film rights sold

Wednesday, 10 July 2019
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Melbourne author and playwright Gabriel Bergmoser’s 'electrifying' debut adult novel, The Hunted, in a two-book deal via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia. UK...

Publicity round-up

Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Books+Publishing’s weekly publicity round-up covers forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction & poetry Susan Hurley (Eight Lives, Affirm)...