Australians shortlisted for Locus Awards
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Several Australians have been named as finalists for the Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing. Garth Nix is a finalist in the young adult category for his novel Frogkisser!...
Hachette acquires world rights to Richell Prize shortlisted debut
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to 2017 Richell Prize finalist Triptych by debut novelist Julie Keys. Triptych traces two timelines from the perspectives of two headstrong women: Muriel Kemp,...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 winners announced
Tuesday, 1 May 2018
The winners of the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were presented at a ceremony at the State Library of NSW on 30 April. Kim Scott’s Taboo (Picador), which tells the...
Affirm reprints ‘The Silver Sea’; projects $40,000 in profits for Royal Children’s Hospital
Tuesday, 1 May 2018
Affirm Press has ordered a reprint of ‘profit-for-purpose’ picture book The Silver Sea (Alison Lester, Jane Godwin & the children at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne), after selling out the...
Wilson awarded 2018 Lloyd O’Neil award; Covernton awarded Pixie O’Harris
Monday, 30 April 2018
Independent bookseller and Indigenous literacy advocate Suzy Wilson and Working Title Press publisher Jane Covernton will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at the Australian Book Industry Awards...
ALS Gold Medal 2018 shortlist announced
Monday, 30 April 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) The Agonist (Shastra...
Charts this week
Monday, 30 April 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley 2 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson Macmillan 3 WeirDo...
Kenwood wins 2018 Text Prize
Friday, 27 April 2018
Melbourne-based writer Nina Kenwood has won the 2018 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her YA manuscript 'It Sounded Better in My Head'. The ‘tender, funny and joyful...
Tusk Books gains representation by The Rights Hive
Friday, 27 April 2018
Animal rights publisher Tusk Books has gained international rights representation through rights agency The Rights Hive. Director of The Rights Hive Natasha Solomun said that two Tusk Books picture books—titled...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 26 April 2018
‘Publishers are talking about how much bigger audio is and how much they need to have it, but they’re having their cake and eating it if advances aren’t any different...
Podcast spotlight: The Morning Bell
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Established in 2014, the Morning Bell is a literary podcast recorded live at the Brunswick Street Bookstore every second Wednesday. For each episode, a guest joins host Joel Martin and co-hosts...
RiP Beverly Farmer
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Australian writer and essayist Beverly Farmer has died, aged 77. Farmer, who won the Patrick White award—traditionally awarded to authors who ‘have made a significant but inadequately recognised contribution to...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Sales Fiction Author Ryan O'Neill has directly sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to The Drover's Wives to Lightning Books. (See news.) Children’s Berbay Publishing has sold German rights...
Clare Strahan’s ‘The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge’
Thursday, 26 April 2018
‘The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge is a book that speaks directly to the concerns of older teenage girls. It is a story that prioritises self-care and assertiveness over politeness and...
O’Neill’s forthcoming ‘Drover’s Wives’ sold to UK
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Prime Minister’s Literary Award-winner Ryan O’Neill has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to his Henry Lawson-inspired short-story collection, The Drover’s Wives, to UK publisher Lightning...
Up for promotion: Digital marketing strategies
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Danielle Binks investigates how publishers and authors are using digital marketing and promotional strategies to reach new readers. Word-of-mouth, it has been said, sells books. But the question remains: how...
O’Grady wins Vogel for ‘The Yellow House’
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Brisbane writer Emily O’Grady has won the 2018 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for The Yellow House (A&U), a story about ‘the legacies of violence and the possibilities of redemption’, set in...
Black Inc. sells ‘Nobel Prize’ middle-grade in seven territories
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Nobel Prize-winner Barry Marshall and Lorna Hendry’s middle-grade time-travel adventure, How to Win a Nobel Prize (illus by Bernard Caleo, Black Inc.), has sold into seven territories, including to Oneworld...
Shortlist announced for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: The Idiot (Elif Batuman, Penguin) The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (Imogen Hermes Gowar,...
Sandhu wins Readings Children’s Book Prize 2018
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Jo Sandhu has won the 2018 Readings Children’s Book Prize for her middle-grade novel Tarin of the Mammoths: The Exile (Puffin), the first book in a trilogy. Sandhu’s title was...
Charts this week
Monday, 23 April 2018
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley 2 WeirDo #10: Messy Weird! Anh Do Scholastic 3 The Subtle Art of Not Giving...
Personal growth: 2017’s fastest growing categories
Friday, 20 April 2018
This year Books+Publishing will publish a regular column from Nielsen BookScan Australia associate director Julie Winters on book data trends. In her first column, Winters looks at the fastest-growing subject...
Prime location: thriving in sobering times at Avenue Elsternwick
Friday, 20 April 2018
When Melbourne’s Avenue Bookstore owner Chris Redfern opened a second store in Elsternwick in 2012, the year after the REDgroup collapse, some were sceptical. Bookseller Savannah Indigo explains how the...
New Frontier signs first licensing deal for new early years imprint
Friday, 20 April 2018
Children’s publisher New Frontier has signed the first licensing deal for its new baby and early years imprint, Catch a Star. The five-year publishing contract will see New Frontier publish...
In somebody else’s shoes: Australian Children’s Laureate Morris Gleitzman’s plans for his term
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Prolific children’s author Morris Gleitzman has been chosen as the Australian Children’s Laureate. He spoke with Sarah Farquharson about his plans for his two-year term as laureate. What are you...
Oh! The Horror! The rise of horror in children’s fiction
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Danielle Binks explores youth literature’s reanimated interest in the horror genre. Stephen King once said, ‘We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones’, and it certainly...
Book bites: Children’s bookseller L J Lacey offers a taste of books to come
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Picture this Picture books with ‘life lessons’ introducing little ones to new ideas are a growing trend, and Lessons of a LAC (Lynn Jenkins, illus by Kirrili Lonergan, EK Books,...
CBCA announces recipients of 2018 Maurice Saxby Creative Development Program
Thursday, 19 April 2018
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Victoria Branch has announced the successful applicants for the 2018 Maurice Saxby Creative Development Program, which provides emerging children’s writers and illustrators with...
ABIAs 2018 shortlists announced
Thursday, 19 April 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Force of Nature (Jane Harper,...
Podcast spotlight: Better Reading Podcast
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Established in 2017, Better Reading Podcast is a weekly bookish podcast where Better Reading founder and director Cheryl Akle holds in-depth conversations with both Australian and international authors. Spanning over...
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