Quote of the week
Thursday, 9 November 2017
‘You try to make yourself into a good enough writer to avoid damaging people and you try to have some kind of honour in what you do’—Helen Garner ‘telling it...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
‘The majority of Australian writers, especially those writing literary fiction and/or published by independent publishers, are lucky to get advances of $5000’—author Annabel Smith surveys a cross-section of authors on...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
‘All our meetings were quite upbeat with most markets steady or slightly up and all publishers had some slots for new voices’—Allen & Unwin’s Emma Dorph and Maggie Thompson on...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
‘We got books on television and we made it work. It lasted as long as we wanted it to. That’s a great triumph because there were many that said it...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
‘It’s not enough to secure a deal on a small or average advance. We need to work closely with the foreign publishers to secure publicity and marketing to lead to...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
‘Speaking as a writer, I would not mind if they disappeared altogether. They have led readers towards authors who are celebrities first and authors second.’—Michelle de Kretser on writers festivals...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
‘I've got a real view about bureaucrats and politicians talking about literacy all the time, and at the same time libraries and librarians are disappearing, sort of seemingly one after...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
‘To have Australian stories disappear and get other stories cheaper from other countries doesn't mean you get the same thing. It doesn't mean you learn about yourselves, your neighbours, the...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
‘The emails started an hour after the announcement from publishers known and unknown checking on available rights … so perhaps this is the start of something’—UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
‘For my last festival, a revolutionary festival, I wanted to give a bigger platform to people whose voices are marginalised and shut out’—Melbourne Writers Festival CEO and artistic director Lisa...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
‘With Amazon on the ground to handle distribution alongside its international reach, there will be a stronger incentive for Australian authors to turn to Amazon and self-publish. This may lead...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
‘I congratulate the Australian Government and praise all those within the books community and the broader business sector who collaborated so effectively on this long campaign’—Australian Booksellers Association CEO Joel...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
‘It is always wonderful and heartwarming to see so many kids who love books—and treat authors like rockstars!’—Readings marketing manager Nina Kenwood on the launch of Andy Griffiths and Terry...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
‘The teens who make up the community’s core audience are getting fed up with the constant, largely adult-driven dramas that currently dominate YA’—US writer Kat Rosenfield on the ‘toxic drama’...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
‘While we saw real improvement in the reviewing of women’s books in the 2016 Stella Count, there remains a significant disparity when it comes to the size of reviews’—academics Melinda...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
‘I learnt by doing, and I think the challenge for writers today is that the “doing” is becoming exponentially less well paid’— The Good Copy editorial director Penny Modra shares her...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
‘Publishing, like media, is being reborn in new forms, both refined and grotesque’—Author John Birmingham on the reinvention of the book publishing industry and the growing number of midlist, trade-published...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
‘I don’t think you could over-state the value that writers like Philip Pullman and J K Rowling add to our nation, so why are we de-valuing them by discounting their...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
‘Reading truth-telling accounts of our history and contemporary Australia by First Nations writers is one way of participating in a national dialogue’—writer and lecturer Meera Atkinson recommends a list of...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
‘I am very fortunate to be involved in a number of supportive communities who rally when things like this happen—but rarely do I laugh quite as hard as I did...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 21 June 2017
‘If we keep doing what we do well, always looking for ways to do it better, we provide an experience that cannot be replicated by Amazon’—ABA chief executive Joel Becker...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 15 June 2017
‘Most emerging writers are not new. Or young. We emerging writers spend a long time in that cramped, dark airless birth canal’—writer Melanie Cheng speaks at the opening of the...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
‘In these hurried, hustling times, where it seems impossible to find a place simply to sit without someone trying to sell you a $1 coffee for $4.50, libraries are one...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
‘The role and value of Australian literary books and culture may need to be reconceptualised and communicated to younger Australians in new ways that are relevant to them’—Macquarie University researchers...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 24 May 2017
‘Whenever we are honest about sales results, authors despair and readers are puzzled, imagining that the myth of instant success and quitting the day job is real’—UWA Publishing’s Terri-ann White...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
‘With less mid-market clutter, when a book like Hera Lindsay Bird or Can You Tolerate This? or My Father’s Island catches on it gets more attention and better sales than...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
‘In Australia we are all, increasingly, being denied participation in, and exposure to, art and arts criticism’—Anwen Crawford on ‘the crisis in Australian arts coverage’ in the Monthly.
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
‘This year’s longlist, unusually, is nearly all contemporary and urban’—State Library of NSW Mitchell librarian Richard Neville on the Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist
Quote of the week
Thursday, 27 April 2017
‘Although we will remain very fond of the print magazine, for a small publisher with the ambitions to continue publishing more writers, to better remunerate them, and to create new...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 20 April 2017
‘Five years of strategic advocacy for women’s writing, five years of necessary adjustments to the unequal focus of our literary culture, and, most importantly, five years of celebration in the...
