$4.1m in rights sales attributed to VIPs 2011-16
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Over four million dollars in rights sales have been attributed to the Australia Council’s Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program over the past five years, according to the Australia Council’s review...
Macmillan UK acquires YA novel penned by seven authors
Thursday, 23 February 2017
In the UK, Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired a ‘unique collaborative novel’ written by seven YA authors, reports the Bookseller. Floored follows the lives of a group of teenagers over...
Hardie Grant in two-book deal with ‘The Bachelor’ star Sam Wood
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Hardie Grant Books has acquired two books from former star of Channel 10’s The Bachelor and personal trainer Sam Wood. The first title, 28 by Sam Wood, will ‘combine over...
PRH to publish new McInerney novel in July
Monday, 13 February 2017
Penguin Random House will publish a new novel by Monica McInerney, The Trip of a Lifetime, in July. The novel is set in South Australia’s Clare Valley and Ireland. The...
Australian YA debut acquired by PRH
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Australian-born, US-based author Emily Suvada’s debut YA novel This Mortal Coil in a two-book deal. The novel centres around...
Five Mile acquires Barnes children’s book; Echo acquires Jones’ novel
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Bonnier Publishing Australia imprint Five Mile has acquired two children’s books by Jimmy Barnes for publication in April 2017. The two books will revolve around the adventures of Och Aye,...
Two Sally Rippin series to launch in 2017
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Two new children’s book series by Sally Rippin will launch in 2017. In June, Hardie Grant Egmont will publish the first book in the ‘Polly & Buster’ junior fiction series aimed...
Scribe acquires book on Belle Gibson cancer hoax
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Scribe has acquired world rights to The Woman Who Fooled the World, a book on the Belle Gibson cancer hoax by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the Fairfax journalists who...
UQP acquires Lucashenko novel ‘Too Much Lip’
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
UQP acting-CEO and publisher Madonna Duffy has acquired world rights to Melissa Lucashenko’s new novel Too Much Lip. Partly inspired by Ned Kelly and the Beverley Hillbillies, Too Much Lip...
A&U acquires Lambie memoir
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Allen & Unwin will publish a memoir by independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie in mid-2017, reports the Australian. The publisher said Lambie’s story is of ‘a very ordinary Australian who...
HarperCollins acquires McTiernan, Ringland debuts
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to two novels by first-time Australian authors. Perth-based writer Dervla McTiernan’s crime novel The Rúin was acquired by publisher Anna Valdinger in a two-book deal...
Watts, Witherspoon to adapt ‘Penguin Bloom’ for film
Friday, 9 December 2016
Australian actress Naomi Watts has partnered with US actress and film producer Reese Witherspoon and US film producer Bruna Papandrea to option the rights to Penguin Bloom (Cameron Bloom &...
Black Inc. acquires memoir from Scribe Nonfiction Prize shortlistee
Friday, 9 December 2016
Black Inc. publisher Aviva Tuffield has acquired a memoir from 24-year-old Queensland writer Lech Blaine, who was shortlisted for this year’s Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. Blaine’s Car Crash:...
Binks sells first book as literary agent
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Danielle Binks has sold her first manuscript as ‘agent-at-large’ with Jacinta Dimase Management. Binks sold world rights to Aboriginal writer and academic Graham Akhurst’s debut YA novel Borderland to Kate...
Sales, acquisitions successes for Australian publishers at Frankfurt
Monday, 7 November 2016
‘New voices in literary fiction’, crime fiction, nature writing and ‘narrative nonfiction for female readers’ were among the trends observed by Australian attendees at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, which...
Eight things to take home from Frankfurt
Monday, 7 November 2016
Former Books+Publishing publisher Andrew Wilkins attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, and came away with eight lessons for publishers, agents and booksellers. A week later than usual, this year’s Frankfurt...
Twentieth Century Fox options rights to ‘Nevermoor’
Friday, 4 November 2016
Twentieth Century Fox has optioned the film rights to Australian author Jessica Townsend’s forthcoming middle-grade novel Nevermoor, the first book in a trilogy acquired by Hachette US, UK and Australia...
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...
Australian author’s middle-grade trilogy acquired at auction
Monday, 24 October 2016
A middle-grade trilogy from debut Australian author Jessica Townsend has been acquired at auction by Hachette UK, US and Australia, reports the Bookseller. The first book in the trilogy tells...
Virtual reality rights sold for YA trilogy in ‘world first’ deal
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Virtual reality rights to a YA trilogy have been sold to an ‘interactive entertainment company’ in what is being described as a ‘world first’ deal, reports the Bookseller. ‘The Fallow...
NZ publisher Eunoia signs with Chinese house
Friday, 14 October 2016
New Zealand publisher Eunoia Publishing has signed an agreement with Chinese Universe & Publishing Media Company that will see each publish books from the other publisher in their respective countries....
Harlequin to fully integrate into HarperCollins ANZ
Monday, 3 October 2016
Harlequin Australia is to fully integrate into HarperCollins ANZ, with the Harlequin publishing division sharing HarperCollins’ sales network and in-house services, including contracts, rights, pre-press, supply and data solutions, HarperCollins...
Inaugural Excellence in Translation medal shortlist announced
Monday, 26 September 2016
The shortlist for the inaugural Medal for Excellence in Translation, administered by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, has been announced. The shortlisted translators and their works are: John Minford,...
Settlement reached in ‘Fifty Shades’ royalty lawsuit
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
American Jennifer Lynn Pedroza has reached an out-of-court settlement with Australian Amanda Hayward, her former partner in the epublishing business The Writers Coffee Shop (TWCS), over Pedroza’s claim she was...
Moriarty, Catton to be adapted for screen
Monday, 5 September 2016
Australian author Liane Moriarty and New Zealand author Eleanor Catton have had their books picked up for screen adaptations. Film rights to Moriarty’s latest novel Truly Madly Guilty (Macmillan) have...
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...
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....
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...
Text acquires Booker-longlisted ‘His Bloody Project’; brings forward ‘Schooldays of Jesus’
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to Graeme Macrae Burnet’s 2016 Man Booker Prize-longlisted crime novel His Bloody Project, and will publish the book on 29 August. Set in the...
Black Inc. acquires Murray’s ‘The Biographer’s Lover’
Friday, 29 July 2016
Black Inc. publisher Aviva Tuffield has acquired Australian author Ruby J Murray’s second novel, The Biographer’s Lover. Set to be published in August 2017, The Biographer’s Lover is a dual narrative that switches...
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