Quote of the week
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
‘The increasing reliance on freelancers means that there’s less on-the-job training’—freelance editor Pamela Hewitt, interviewed in Portia Lindsay’s article on professional development in the book industry in Books+Publishing magazine
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Sales Nonfiction—UQP has sold North American rights to The Hard Light of Day (Rod Moss) to Skyhorse Publishing. Children’s—Walker Books has sold Turkish rights to the first four books of...
Toni Jordan’s ‘Our Tiny, Useless Hearts’
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
‘Following the romantic capering of Fall Girl and the historically set Nine Days, Toni Jordan’s Our Tiny, Useless Hearts is a highly entertaining romp through the complexities of modern relationships’...
Charts this week
Monday, 21 March 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Lady Midnight Cassandra Clare Simon & Schuster 2 The Road to Ruin Niki Savva Scribe 3 15th Affair James Patterson Century 4...
Dominic Smith’s ‘The Last Painting of Sara de Vos’
Thursday, 17 March 2016
‘It will appeal to a wide range of readers, accessible yet complex in the manner of Geraldine Brooks or Anthony Doerr. I predict it will be one of the big...
‘Four horsemen’ the focus of Digital Book World 2016
Thursday, 17 March 2016
‘Digital Book World organiser and The Idea Logical Company CEO Mike Shatzkin set the tone for the conference in an opening speech. Shatzkin said: “As shelf space shrinks, publishers rely...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold UK rights to Skylarking (Kate Mildenhall) to Legend Press; and Polish rights to Rose’s Vintage (Kayte Nunn) to Burda Publishing. HarperCollins has sold world German...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 17 March 2016
‘The advantage is almost always on the side of the cunning social arts satellite than the demented scribbler’—Sydney writer Luke Carman delivers an attack on arts administrators in Melbourne’s literary...
Charts this week
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Michael Mosley Simon & Schuster 2 15th Affair James Patterson Century 3 Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer...
Nonfiction dominates at Taipei International Book Exhibition
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
‘The Taiwanese publishing market continues to face a downturn with noted declines in book sales over the past few years, particularly in fiction. Book space in the renowned Eslite Bookstore...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
‘This hasn’t happened by accident—this is a very special book, of extraordinary power, skill, and frankness, published to the accompaniment of an immaculate and highly disciplined release strategy and publicity...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Greek rights to White Gardenia (Belinda Alexandra) to Dioptra Publishing S A; and world Polish rights to The Innocent Mage and A Blight of Mages (both...
Emily Maguire’s ‘An Isolated Incident’
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
‘There has been a proliferation of pretty-dead-girl thrillers in the past few years and it shows no sign of letting up. But don’t let the trend fool you into thinking...
Charts this week
Monday, 7 March 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer Macmillan 2 15th Affair James Patterson Century 3 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Fourth...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
‘A lot of editors are women, particularly in Australia, and I think that comes down to women wanting to work in something they really love doing and being prepared to...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Sales Fiction—A&U has sold rights to The Lake House (Kate Morton) in the following territories: Estonian to Varrak; Bulgarian to Colibri; Russian to Exmo; Turkish to Alfa Basim Dayim Dagitim;...
Helen Garner’s ‘Everywhere I Look’
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
‘I’d probably give Helen Garner five stars for her shopping list; I’ve loved her work since Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I began selling books’ … read...
Does publicity sell books? A case study
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Last year, Captain Honey publishers Roz Hopkins and Natalie Winter successfully crowdfunded their illustrated children’s book Mummy and Mumma Get Married. In a recent blog post, Hopkins writes about the...
Charts this week
Monday, 29 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Fourth Estate 2 Brotherhood in Death J. D. Robb Hachette 3 The Dressmaker (film...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
‘[I’m] grateful to Pan Macmillan for the foresight to set up the imprint in the first place’— Momentum publisher Joel Naoum on Pan Macmillan’s decision to scale down the publishing...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Sales Fiction—Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia has sold rights to See What I Have Done (Sarah Schmidt) in the following territories: ANZ to Hachette Australia in a two-book deal;...
Josephine Rowe’s ‘A Loving, Faithful Animal’
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
‘Like [Rowe’s] stories, A Loving, Faithful Animal distils the small incidents of ordinary life into moments of resonance and grace, but assuredly weaves them together across the longer form’ …...
Bright spark: Alison Whittaker on ‘Lemons in the Chicken Wire’
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Alison Whittaker received a black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship for her debut poetry collection Lemons in the Chicken Wire. Reviewer Hilary Simmons says it ‘introduces her as a force to be...
Charts this week
Monday, 22 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Brotherhood in Death J. D. Robb & Angharad Kowal Hachette 2 Blue Danielle Steel Bantam 3 The Dressmaker (film tie-in) Rosalie Ham...
Alice Grundy on OzCo’s exploratory trip to India
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
The Australia Council for the Arts supported a delegation of publishers and writers’ festival programmers to travel to India from 13-25 January to ‘investigate artistic development, market and exchange opportunities...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
‘It’s our belief that if a writer has gone to all the effort to put together a publishing proposal or manuscript, and that we have spent time actually reading it,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Sales Fiction—Jenny Darling & Associates has sold US rights to The Natural Way of Things (Charlotte Wood) to Europa Editions New York in association with Pamela Malpas at Harold Ober...
Sarah Kanake’s ‘Sing Fox to Me’
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
‘Kanake deals in so many Gothic tropes—ghosts, implied incest, a stark natural landscape and the legacy of an earlier generation’s follies—that an alternative title for the book might well have...
Charts this week
Monday, 15 February 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Blue Danielle Steel Bantam 2 The Dressmaker (film tie-in) Rosalie Ham Duffy and Snellgrove 3 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
‘It’s a lovely thing for me because my books are on the subversive side, and also I think humorous books have been underestimated’—Leigh Hobbs on his appointment as the new...
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