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Rights round-up 

Thursday, 3 November 2016
Sales Fiction—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold the film rights to the nine-book ‘Dark Heavens’ series (Kylie Chan) to Keller Entertainment; and ANZ rights to the ‘Daughters of the Outback’...

Lucy Durneen’s ‘Wild Gestures’ 

Thursday, 3 November 2016
‘This is an intriguing collection of short stories where things are seldom what they seem and characters are preoccupied by their past actions. Shaped less by plot than by precise...

Jane’s addiction: Jane Covernton’s career journey 

Thursday, 3 November 2016
‘I had accidentally stumbled upon the job of my life,’ writes Jane Covernton about her entry into children’s publishing. The co-founder of Omnibus Books and more recently, Working Title Press,...

Small publisher spotlight: Busybird Publishing 

Thursday, 3 November 2016
Launched in Melbourne in 2009, Busybird Publishing is a ‘boutique micropublisher’ that combines traditional and fee-for-service publishing. ‘But we also do lots of other things,’ says publications manager Les Zigomanis....

Beneba Clarke to deliver Word for Word Festival keynote

Thursday, 3 November 2016
The program has been announced for the third annual Word for Word nonfiction festival, running in Geelong from 18-20 November. Author Maxine Beneba Clarke will deliver the opening keynote address,...

Chan’s ‘Dark Heavens’ series optioned for film

Thursday, 3 November 2016
Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has optioned the film rights to Kylie Chan’s nine-book ‘Dark Heavens’ fantasy series to Hollywood production company Keller Entertainment. Chan’s agent Alex Adsett negotiated the deal...

Charts this week 

Monday, 31 October 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Four Legendary Kingdoms Matthew Reilly Macmillan 2 The Girl on the Train (Film Tie In) Paula Hawkins Black Swan 3 Small...

New Zealand Education Awards finalists announced

Friday, 28 October 2016
The finalists for the New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Primary NZ Curriculum Mathematics: Connecting All Strands—Level 3B (Maryanne Tipler, Caxton...

YABBAs 2016 winners announced

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
The winners of the 2016 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Pig the Fibber (Aaron Blabey, Scholastic) Fiction...

Booking ahead: 2017 nonfiction preview 

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Each year we ask publishers to tell us about their most anticipated titles for 2017. Read about their top adult nonfiction titles from the latest issue of Books+Publishing magazine here.

Quote of the week

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
‘If we rely on individual artists to do their development in private, we risk a national literature where only the privileged can afford to contribute’—freelance writer and editor Samantha Forge calls for...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Angel’s Share (Kayte Nunn) to Wavesound. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Italian rights to The Shortest History of Europe (John Hirst)...

Julia Baird’s ‘Victoria the Queen’ 

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
‘Julia Baird’s excellent and sadly out-of-print first book, Media Tarts: How the Australian Press Frames Female Politicians, was an engrossing dissection of gender, politics and power with the pace and...

Small publisher spotlight: Threekookaburras 

Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Launched in Melbourne in 2013, Threekookaburras has a focus on ‘perennially useful nonfiction and experimental fiction’ and a ‘low-cost, profit-sharing model that slots between self-publishers and the bigger, independent presses’,...

Affirm announces new kids’ list to launch in 2017 

Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Affirm Press is introducing a new list of books for children and young adults in March 2017. Publishing director Martin Hughes told Books+Publishing that he is ‘really pumped about it, and...

New Women in Comics festival to be held in Melbourne

Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Melbourne comics bookstore All Star Comics will present the first Women in Comics Festival, to be held in the store from 10-11 December. The festival bills itself as a celebration of...

Charts this week 

Monday, 24 October 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Girl on the Train (Film Tie In) Paula Hawkins Black Swan 2 Working Class Boy Jimmy Barnes HarperCollins 3 The Good...

Fremantle Press illustrators longlisted for FBF prize

Thursday, 20 October 2016
Australian illustrators Kyle Hughes-Odgers and Chris Nixon have been longlisted for the inaugural Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) Global Illustration Award, which has a prize pool of €30,000 (A$42,660). Hughes-Odgers and...

 

 

 

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