RiP Kevin Burgemeestre
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Children’s book author and illustrator Kevin Burgemeestre has died, aged 59. Burgemeestre’s 30-year career included illustrating Hazel Edwards’ Antarctic Dad (Lothian), Val Marshall and Bronwyn Tester’s Bernard Was a Bike...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
‘Right now, the focus should be on moving forward with legislation to fix copyright’s most egregious and indefensible failures’—legal academics Kimberlee Weatherall and Rebecca Giblin weigh into the debate over...
Missouri library launches ‘1000 Books before Kindergarten’ initiative
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
In the US, St Louis County Library in Missouri has launched a new program called ‘1000 Books Before Kindergarten’ to encourage parents to start reading to children early and often,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Sales Fiction—Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold world rights to The Dark Lake (Sarah Bailey) to A&U. (See news.) Penguin Random House Australia has sold Spanish, French and...
Holly Throsby’s ‘Goodwood’
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
‘It’s fitting that a reviewer once described Australian musician Holly Throsby as “a songstress with [the] literary depth of a novelist”, because Throsby is now writing fiction—and her debut, Goodwood,...
Inaugural Chinese Writers Festival releases full program
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Writers Victoria has released the full program for the inaugural Chinese Writers Festival, to be held in Melbourne on 28 August. The program features a line-up of international Chinese and...
A&U acquires debut crime novel ‘The Dark Lake’
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired Melbourne author Sarah Bailey’s debut novel The Dark Lake via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. The Dark Lake is a crime novel set in...
Hugo Awards 2016 winners announced
Monday, 22 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Hugo Awards for the best science-fiction and fantasy titles of the previous year have been announced, with N K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (Orbit) winning...
RWA awards 2016 winners announced
Monday, 22 August 2016
The winners of the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, were announced on 20 August at the RWA’s 25th national...
Charts this week
Monday, 22 August 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 78-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 2 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One & Two (Special...
CBCA Awards 2016 winners announced
Friday, 19 August 2016
The winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Older Readers...
Reminder: CBCA awards announced today
Friday, 19 August 2016
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will announce the winners of this year’s Book of the Year Awards at 12pm today in Sydney. Books+Publishing will publish a list of the...
Adsett partners with US agency Wolf Literary
Thursday, 18 August 2016
Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has announced a partnership with former UQP marketing coordinator Rachel Crawford at Wolf Literary Services in New York. The deal will see Crawford represent AAPS...
Rowling to release new Harry Potter ebooks in September
Thursday, 18 August 2016
J K Rowling will release new digital short-form content set in the Harry Potter world in September, reports the Bookseller. A Pottermore spokesperson told the Bookseller that the ‘Pottermore Presents’...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
‘The paper book is a value proposition. Twenty or thirty dollars buys you hours of deep, screen-free, distraction-free reading’—author Nick Earls on the benefits of print books and bookshops.
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Sales Fiction—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold world rights to The Hot Guy (Mel Campbell & Anthony Morris) to Echo. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Korean rights to The Shortest History...
Small publisher spotlight: Celapene Press
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Melbourne-based Celapene Press released its first title—an anthology called Page Seventeen—in 2005 before specialising in children’s and YA fiction. ‘Our first children’s book was Machino Supremo by Mark Carthew and...
Cath Crowley’s ‘Words in Deep Blue’
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
‘Highly recommended for fans of Trinity Doyle’s Pieces of Sky and Fiona Wood’s Cloudwish, this is a love letter to books and bookshops, to the ocean, to falling in love...
Student assessment: Meet the 2016 Inky Awards judges
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
‘The rise of book blogging has seen people appreciating books as artefacts again, not just as stories. The saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” has less and less...
ALIA makes My Big Idea shortlist
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association’s (ALIA) submission to the Concern for Future Generation’s My Big Idea national competition has made the shortlist. ALIA’s suggestion is for every child to...
Text acquires Macarthur biography
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Text has acquired world rights to a biography of Anglo-Australian settler and pioneer Elizabeth Macarthur by writer Michelle Scott Tucker in a two-book deal negotiated by Jacinta Di Mase Management....
NSW Premier’s History Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Australian History Prize ($15,000) The Eighties: The Decade that...
Inky Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...
‘KYD’ to end print publication, launch new awards
Monday, 15 August 2016
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced that it will move to digital-only publishing in 2017. The journal, which launched in March 2010, will release its final print edition...
Text acquires 2016 Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript winner
Monday, 15 August 2016
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to the short-story collection Australia Day by Melanie Cheng, the winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, in a...
Charts this week
Monday, 15 August 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One & Two (Special Rehearsal edition) J K Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany...
Bloomsbury announces plans for ‘Fantastic Beasts’ titles
Friday, 12 August 2016
Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired the rights to several movie tie-in books for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and ‘J K Rowling’s Wizarding World’, ahead of the film’s...
‘The 78-Storey Treehouse’ sets new records for Australian title
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 78-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has sold more copies on its first day than any other Australian book, according to Dymocks and Booktopia. At Dymocks, sales...
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ sells 212k copies in Oz in its first week
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playscript (J K Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne, Hachette) has sold 211,898 copies valued at $5.49m in its first week of release in Australia,...
Bookstores prepare for National Bookshop Day
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Preparations are underway for the sixth annual National Bookshop Day this Saturday 13 August, with stores around the country hosting events and promotions. The theme of this year’s National Bookshop...
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