Expounding and expanding: Wellington’s Unity Books
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘Part of the Unity survival kit—it’ll be 49 Unity-years in September—is our determination that Unity continues as a viable forum for books, people and ideas. I know this sounds a...
Small publisher spotlight: Lacuna Publishing
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Launched in 2012, Sydney-based Lacuna Publishing publishes fiction, poetry and nonfiction that ‘challenges the status quo, introduces new ideas, shares untold stories, or presents a fresh perspective’. Founder Linda Nix...
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
The shortlists for the biennial WA Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson, Scribe) Clade (James Bradley, Hamish...
NZ Book Trade Industry Awards: A&U named Publisher of the Year
Monday, 4 July 2016
The 2016 New Zealand Book Trade Industry Awards were announced at the Booksellers NZ Conference in Auckland on 2 July. Time Out Bookstore in Mt Eden was named Bookseller of...
Charts this week
Monday, 4 July 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Dry Jane Harper Macmillan 3 The Girl on the Train...
Film rights to Australian YA debut sold to US producers
Monday, 4 July 2016
US film production company Awesomeness Films has acquired film rights to Townsville author Krystal Sutherland’s forthcoming debut YA novel Our Chemical Hearts (Penguin). The book, which will be simultaneously published...
Quote of the Week
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
‘A large part of our fiction list is translated, and if the pound stays at this low level it will have obviously further increase the costs involved in publishing fiction...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world French, Spanish and Italian rights to Hotel du Barry (Lesley Truffle) to HarperCollins France, HarperCollins Iberica and HarperCollins Italia, respectively; and Polish rights to Innocence...
Small publisher spotlight: Transportation Press
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Established in 2013, Tasmania-based Transportation Press publishes Tasmanian literature alongside work from around the world. ‘It began with the idea to publish a collection of new stories from Tasmania and...
Ryan O’Neill’s ‘Their Brilliant Careers’
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
‘We don’t see much formally innovative, experimental writing in Australian fiction—realist narratives tend to rule the roost. Also rare is genuinely fine comic writing. Enter then Ryan O’Neill, who, with...
Book-to-film adaptations coming in 2016
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
From the BFG to the story of a Ugandan chess prodigy, several book-to-film adaptations are due to be released in Australian cinemas in the second half of the year. Read...
Speech Pathology Australia book awards 2016 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Birth to three years As Big...
UK children’s laureates to promote the arts in schools
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
In the UK, children’s laureate Chris Riddell has joined forces with eight former children’s laureates to promote the importance of the arts and creativity in schools, reports the Guardian. Riddell,...
ASAL conference to focus on Indigenous writing
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
This year’s Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) conference will be held in Canberra from 6-9 July, and will include a focus on Indigenous writing. Melissa Lucashenko, author...
Byron Writers Festival announces new children’s writing bus
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
The Byron Writers Festival has announced a new children’s writing bus to support its regional creative writing program StoryBoard. The bus, which has been funded by a $50,000 grant from Arts...
‘Alice Miranda’ series to be adapted for TV
Monday, 27 June 2016
Jacqueline Harvey’s ‘Alice Miranda’ children’s book series (Random House) will be adapted into an animated TV show to screen on Channel Nine. The 26 half-hour episode series will be produced...
Charts this week
Monday, 27 June 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Dry Jane Harper Macmillan 3 The Games James Patterson Century...
Feminist Writers Festival line-up announced
Friday, 24 June 2016
The line-up for the inaugural Feminist Writers Festival’s (FWF) networking day, to be held on Friday 26 August at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre in Melbourne, has been announced. Among...
Bilingual Chinese Writers Festival to be held in Melbourne
Friday, 24 June 2016
A ‘completely bilingual’ Chinese Writers Festival will be held at Richmond Library in Melbourne on Sunday 28 August. The festival, presented by Writers Victoria, the Australia Chinese Writers Festival and...
Binks joins Jacinta Dimase Management as ‘agent-at-large’
Thursday, 23 June 2016
Writer and reviewer Danielle Binks has joined Jacinta Dimase Management as an ‘agent-at-large’, and will work to source and sign new authors for the agency, with a particular focus on...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Wrong ’Un (Brad Hogg & Greg Growden) to Wavesound; world audio rights to Playing to Win: The Definitive Biography of...
Grant designs: Bookstores on their James Patterson grant projects
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Carody Culver looks at how five recipients of the Australian Booksellers Association James Patterson grants are faring with their proposals, and what they’ve learnt from the process. Read her article...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
‘It is a genuinely exciting opportunity for an Australian publisher and a first for a Chinese children’s publisher to acquire an interest in a foreign children’s publishing company’—New Frontier managing...
Ailsa Wild and Jeremy Barr’s ‘The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales’
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
‘How much history and science can a reader learn from a graphic novel? This new art-science offering from publisher Scale Free Network suggests quite a lot! The Invisible War is...
Small publisher spotlight: Scale Free Network
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Melbourne-based ‘art-science collaborative’ Scale Free Network released its first book The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon in 2013. ‘We wanted to find a way to tell positive stories about...
‘Run, Pip, Run’ wins 2016 Readings Children’s Book Prize
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
J C Jones’ Run, Pip, Run (A&U) has won the 2016 Readings Children’s Book Prize. The book was chosen from a shortlist of six. Also on the shortlist were: 88...
PRH acquires two new novels from Evie Wyld
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired two new novels from Miles Franklin Award-winning UK-Australian author Evie Wyld, reports the Bookseller. UK and Commonwealth rights were jointly acquired by Nikki Christer,...
New Frontier signs deal with Chinese publisher ZJJ&C
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Chinese publisher Zhejiang Junior & Children Publishing (ZJJ&C) has purchased a share in local children’s publisher New Frontier, in a deal that will see New Frontier publish ZJJ&C titles in...
Crossan, Riddell win 2016 Carnegie, Greenaway medals
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
The UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the winners of the 2016 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, with Sarah Crossan’s One (Bloomsbury) winning the Carnegie,...
RWA awards 2016 finalists announced
Monday, 20 June 2016
The finalists for the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’, have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Long...
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