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...
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,...
Hachette UK acquires mobile games studio Neon Play
Monday, 20 June 2016
Hachette UK has bought mobile games development studio Neon Play in a ‘substantial acquisition’ that could be the ‘one of several’ purchases in the apps market for the publisher, reports...
A&U acquires debut novel from musician Holly Throsby
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired the debut novel from Sydney songwriter and musician Holly Throsby. Goodwood, which will be published on 28 September, is pitched as a ‘compelling ride into...
MUP sells film rights to ‘Modern Love’
Friday, 13 May 2016
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has sold the film rights to Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed (Kendrah Morgan & Lesley Harding) to Richard Keddie of The Film...
Allen & Unwin Acquires Garth Nix Title ‘Frogkisser!’
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Allen & Unwin are delighted to have obtained the ANZ rights for New York Times-bestselling author Garth Nix's Frogkisser! (publishing February 2017). Written in the spirit of The Princess Bride, Frogkisser! is...
Text acquires new novel from Simsion, Buist
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Text has acquired world rights to a new novel co-written by husband and wife authors Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist. The novel Left Right, which does not yet have a...
Knopf US acquires Kristoff YA trilogy
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Melbourne-based author Jay Kristoff has sold North American rights to his YA novel LIFEL1K3 to Knopf in a three-book deal. The first book in a planned trilogy, LIFEL1K3 is about...
HarperCollins acquires Jimmy Barnes autobiography
Thursday, 3 March 2016
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Cold Chisel frontman Jimmy Barnes’ autobiography in a two-book deal. The two volumes of Barnes’ autobiography will span the singer’s childhood and career and...
Australian debut acquired by Hachette; rights sold overseas
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Hachette Australia has purchased ANZ rights at auction to Australian author Sarah Schmidt’s debut novel in a two-book deal facilitated by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia. See What I...
PRH acquires supernatural YA series ‘Valentine’ from AAPS
Thursday, 18 February 2016
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired the rights to debut author Jodi McAlister’s supernatural YA series ‘Valentine’ in a multi-book deal from Alex Adsett Publishing Services. The series follows four...
MUP to publish Payne autobiography
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Melbourne University Publishing has acquired the rights to My Story, the autobiography of Michelle Payne, who in 2015 became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. In a...
Pantera Press signs first international rights deal
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Pantera Press has signed its first international rights deal with the sale of North American rights to the first seven books in Sulari Gentill’s ‘Rowland Sinclair Mysteries’ series and J M...
Affirm acquires ‘The Birdman’s Wife’ at auction
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Affirm Press publisher Fiona Henderson has acquired local and Commonwealth rights at auction to Melissa Ashley’s debut novel The Birdman’s Wife from Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. The novel, which...
‘Illuminae’ film rights sold to US producers
Monday, 23 November 2015
The film rights to Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman’s YA novel Illuminae (A&U) have been sold to Plan B Entertainment—a US production company owned by Brad Pitt—and Warner Bros studio, with...
ABC Books acquires rights to Mitchell Johnson autobiography
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
ABC Books has acquired the rights to Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson’s as-yet-untitled autobiography, to be published in the second half of 2016. ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia, announced...
Bloomsbury acquires world rights to Melbourne duo’s picture book
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Bloomsbury USA has acquired world rights to Melbourne-based author and illustrator team Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson’s Introducing Teddy, to be published globally in June 2016. In a statement the...
Tuffield acquires Valentish’s ‘addiction memoir’ for Black Inc.
Friday, 30 October 2015
Publisher Aviva Tuffield has acquired her first nonfiction title for Black Inc., an ‘addiction memoir’ from journalist and Cherry Bomb author Jenny Valentish. A Girl’s Guide to Addiction and Recovery,...
Attendance up at Frankfurt Book Fair 2015; ‘strong’ interest in translation rights
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Professional attendance at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair was approximately level with 2014, with 140,474 attendees this year compared to 140,291 last year, reports Publishers Weekly. Total attendance was up...
Two thirds of Australian rights managers and literary agents report income growth, according to survey
Monday, 12 October 2015
The rights market has taken a positive turn over the past year, according to Books+Publishing’s annual survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers, published in its Frankfurt Book Fair...
International book deals for Australian YA author’s debut novel; PRH to publish locally
Monday, 28 September 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Australian YA author Krystal Sutherland’s debut novel We Were Never Here. The rights were acquired in a two-book deal through agent...
Pan Macmillan acquires Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript winner
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Pan Macmillan has acquired The Dry by Jane Harper, the winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, in a three-book deal from Clare Forster at Curtis...
PRH buys world rights to bestselling self-published children’s book
Thursday, 3 September 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) have acquired world English-language rights to the self-published picture book The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep (Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin) in a three-book deal with the...
Inkerman & Blunt acquires five Nick Earls novellas
Monday, 17 August 2015
Melbourne-based small publisher Inkerman & Blunt has acquired five novellas by Nick Earls, to be published over five months beginning in June 2016. Publisher Donna Ward told Books+Publishing that Inkerman...
HarperCollins acquires rights to book by NZ ‘social media sensation’
Friday, 17 July 2015
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jamie’s World: They Let Me Write a Book! by New Zealand ‘social media sensation’ Jamie Curry.The publisher has described Curry’s book as ‘a journey through her mind...
MidnightSun signs first international rights deals
Monday, 6 July 2015
Adelaide-based small press MidnightSun Publishing has signed its first three international rights deals.The publisher has sold US rights to Amanda Hickie’s thriller An Ordinary Epidemic to Little, Brown in a...
Canongate acquires rights to Nick Cave title
Monday, 23 March 2015
Canongate has acquired the rights to a new book by musician Nick Cave The Sick Bag Song will be published on 8 April and will be sold online-only from a dedicated...
HarperCollins acquires rights to Tim Cahill autobiography
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to the autobiography of Australian soccer player Tim Cahill.Cahill has played over 80 games for Australia and is the country’s top goal scorer, including five World Cup goals....
HarperCollins acquires memoir by Rosie Batty
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
HarperCollins has announced it has acquired world rights to a memoir by Rosie Batty. Rosie’s Story, written with Bryce Corbett, will be published in late 2015. ‘We see Rosie’s Story as...
Hachette acquires self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series
Friday, 21 November 2014
Hachette Australia has acquired a self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series from Brisbane brother and sister Nicholas and Alison Lochel.The four-book ‘Zarkora’ series ‘is the story of brothers Neleik and Ervine Fyrelit,...
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