Screen rights to ‘The Good People’ optioned
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Australian production company Aquarius Films has optioned the film and TV rights to Hannah Kent’s The Good People (Picador) via Curtis Brown Australia. Aquarius producers Angie Felder, Polly Staniford and Cecilia...
Dymocks Waurn Ponds wins top award at Dymocks conference
Monday, 31 July 2017
Dymocks Waurn Ponds in Geelong has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2017 Dymocks national conference, which was held on the Gold Coast from 23-25 July. Dymocks...
New ABC TV ‘Story Time’ series to screen during Children’s Book Week
Monday, 31 July 2017
A new ABC TV series called Story Time will screen during Children’s Book Week in August. The Play School spin-off series will feature Australian celebrities—including journalist Leigh Sales, comedian Rove...
Charts this week
Monday, 31 July 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Late Show Michael Connelly Allen & Unwin 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley 3 Trip of a Lifetime Monica...
Canberra Writers Festival 2017 program launched
Friday, 28 July 2017
The program has been announced for the second annual Canberra Writers Festival, which will run from 25-27 August. International guests appearing at the festival include UK novelist Samantha Shannon, Dutch...
Affirm to publish junior fiction series by ‘Bondi Rescue’ lifeguard
Friday, 28 July 2017
Affirm Press will publish a children’s fiction series by Bondi Rescue lifeguard Trent ‘Maxi’ Maxwell in 2018. The series will be co-written by David Lawrence, author of the ‘Fox Swift’...
Whitehead wins 2017 Arthur C Clarke Award
Friday, 28 July 2017
Colson Whitehead has won the 2017 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction for his novel The Underground Railroad (Orbit), reports the Guardian. The Underground Railroad—a ‘fantastic reimagining of US slavery’—has...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
‘I learnt by doing, and I think the challenge for writers today is that the “doing” is becoming exponentially less well paid’— The Good Copy editorial director Penny Modra shares her...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Sales Fiction—Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold Spanish-language rights to Voss (Patrick White) to Impedimenta; and German-language rights to The Twyborn Affair, The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of...
Tim Flannery’s ‘Sunlight and Seaweed’
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
‘It is difficult to overstate the importance of this concise, convincingly argued view of our world’s prospects for its survival and improvement over the next 33 years (ie to 2050)’...
Book love and burnout: Alexandra Payne on the ‘unexpected challenges of working in publishing and bookselling’
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
‘Like most in the industry, I read manuscripts, proposals and works in progress out of work hours. If I choose to read a book in my non-work time, I feel...
Book blogger spotlight: Bec’s Books
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Rebecca Gough is a self-described ‘perpetual internet presence’ who blogs about YA and middle-grade titles, with a focus on fantasy and sci-fi. After realising that Instagram’s space for captions was...
Solomun launches The Rights Hive agency
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Former Penguin Random House (PRH) and Five Mile Press rights manager Natasha Solomun has launched a new rights agency, The Rights Hive, to provide representation of foreign and subsidiary rights...
‘The Bone Sparrow’ wins inaugural Readings YA Prize
Tuesday, 25 July 2017
Zana Fraillon has won the inaugural Readings YA Prize for her novel The Bone Sparrow (Hachette). Fraillon’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $3000 prize, which...
Brisbane Writers Festival program announced
Tuesday, 25 July 2017
The program has been announced for the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival, which runs from 6-10 September. Over 100 authors will appear at the festival, including Canadian novelist Anosh Irani, who...
easyJet stocks UK fleet with 7000 copies of classic children’s books
Monday, 24 July 2017
In the UK, budget airline easyJet has stocked its UK fleet with 7000 copies of classic children’s books selected by author Jacqueline Wilson, reports the Bookseller. Books including Peter Pan,...
Charts this week
Monday, 24 July 2017
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley 2 Trip of a Lifetime Monica McInerney Michael Joseph 3 The Late Show Michael Connelly...
Junot Díaz pens new picture book
Thursday, 20 July 2017
In the US, Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz has written a picture book for young readers, reports the New York Times. The book, Islandborn, will be illustrated by Leo Espinosa and...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Sales Fiction—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold the screen option to ‘The Territory’ trilogy (Justin Woolley) to Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett (see news). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Portuguese translation rights in...
News Corp survey finds majority of children six-to-12 are library members
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
News Corp Australia’s Great Australian Reading Survey, conducted in June, found that about three-quarters of children aged six to 12 and almost half of under five-year-olds are card-carrying members of...
Book blogger spotlight: My Cup and Chaucer
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Tonile Wortley started a crime fiction blog in 2011, but she now blogs about a broader selection of adult fiction at My Cup and Chaucer. Her day job—digital and community...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
‘Publishing, like media, is being reborn in new forms, both refined and grotesque’—Author John Birmingham on the reinvention of the book publishing industry and the growing number of midlist, trade-published...
Shaun Prescott’s ‘The Town’
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
‘The Town is understated but compelling; the narrator’s deadpan voice recalls the lone existentialist figures of Sartre’s Nausea and Camus’ The Outsider, but contrasts this with a dream logic reminiscent...
Melbourne Writers Festival 2017 program launched
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
The program for the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 25 August to 3 September, has been announced. Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Kim Scott will launch the festival...
Inaugural crime writers festival to be held in Sydney
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
A new writers festival celebrating the crime genre will be held in Sydney from 2-3 September 2017. The two-day festival, BAD, is founded by academic Denis Tracey and writer Michael...
Sound of the times: The rise of audio
Monday, 17 July 2017
From audiobooks to podcasts, Brad Jefferies investigates the rising popularity of audio formats. The widespread take-up of smartphones has enabled the growth of the audiobook market at the same time...
Yule rush in: Children’s Christmas highlights
Monday, 17 July 2017
Andrea Hanke seeks out the highlights from publishers’ Christmas lists. Picture books Australian comedian and composer Tim Minchin’s bittersweet song ‘When I Grow Up’ from the musical Matilda has been...
Rippin’ good yarns: Sally Rippin on her new imprint at Bonnier
Monday, 17 July 2017
Jackie Tang talks to Sally Rippin about setting up the new ‘Sally Rippin Presents’ junior fiction list at Bonnier Publishing Australia and what direction she wants to take it. Sally...
Science in fiction: Hooking younger readers on science
Monday, 17 July 2017
Heather Zubek explores how children’s authors are making science engaging for readers. For many years, stories based on historical events have inspired young readers to explore the past. Now, it’s...
Book bites: A taste of books to come
Monday, 17 July 2017
Picture perfect A Thousand Hugs from Daddy by Anna Pignataro (Scholastic, August) and Funniest Dad in the World by Ed Allen and Louis Shea (Scholastic, August) are prime Father’s Day...
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