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Book blogger spotlight: Book Bloggers Australia

Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Established in 2010 by blogger Margaret Bates, Book Bloggers Australia is an online directory and forum where Australian bloggers can discuss books and blogging, and connect with others in the...

Where popular meets the professional: Genre Con 2017 

Wednesday, 29 November 2017
GenreCon 2017 was the conference’s biggest yet. The biennially-staged writers conference aimed at genre writers sold out its registrations with 240 attendees, up from 190 in 2015. Fantasy writers were...

Programming coordinator, Melbourne 

Thursday, 9 November 2017
The Wheeler Centre This pivotal role is responsible for coordinating the delivery of the Wheeler Centre’s extensive self-produced events programme. As an integral part of the Programming team, they will...

The millennial market: Publishing for a new generation 

Monday, 23 October 2017
They’re a generation more talked about than listened to, but the collective spending power of millennials is set to grow. Sarah Farquharson investigates how publishers are tapping into the millennial...

Book blogger spotlight: Trish Talks Texts

Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Trish Buckley is a teacher-librarian who brings a critical perspective to YA literature. ‘I have been reading YA novels since I was a teenager, so that’s 30-odd years of context,...

Berbay launches junior fiction series

Thursday, 7 September 2017
Berbay Publishing will release its first junior fiction series, ‘Norton’, in 2018, by Melbourne writer and illustrator John Dickson. The series focuses on seven-year-old Norton, who is ‘finding his way...

CBCA Awards 2017 winners announced

Friday, 18 August 2017
The winners of this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Older readers...

Something wundrous: Jessica Townsend on ‘Nevermoor’

Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Queensland author Jessica Townsend’s debut Nevermoor (Hachette, October) is a middle-grade fantasy about a cursed 11-year-old girl ‘that will hook readers aged 10 and up with intricate imaginative detail and...

Copyright Agency announces recipients of $1.3m funding grants

Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Fifty-six projects have received a total of $1.3m from the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Funding recipients in the various categories include: Children’s literature Children’s...

Stocking up: 2017 Christmas highlights 

Monday, 17 July 2017
Andrea Hanke, Brad Jefferies and Sarah Farquharson round up this year’s Christmas releases. Festive fiction Literary fiction fans will be spoiled for choice this Christmas with new novels from many...

Bestsellers this week 

Monday, 17 July 2017
Monica McInerney’s The Trip of a Lifetime (Michael Joseph) has unseated Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (Wrightbooks) to claim top spot on this week’s top 10 bestsellers chart. Pape’s book...

Publishing delegation travels to Seoul and Beijing

Wednesday, 5 July 2017
A delegation of Australian publishers travelled to Beijing and Seoul in June to ‘research market opportunities for authors and publishers in China and Korea’. Nerrilee Weir, senior rights manager for...

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2017 winners announced

Tuesday, 20 June 2017
The 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards have been announced. A number of Australian titles were among the winners and runners-up. Special Awards Prestige Awards Joint winner: Travels through Dali (Zhang...

NT History Book Awards 2017 shortlist announced

Tuesday, 13 June 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award has been announced. The four shortlisted titles are: Remember Me Kindly: A History of the Holtze Family in...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Sales Fiction—Giramondo has sold US rights to Border Districts and Stream System (Gerald Murnane) to Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Text has sold Turkish rights to Fear (Dirk Kurbjuweit) to Hep...

MUP orders reprint of Milligan’s ‘Cardinal’

Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Melbourne University Press (MUP) has ordered a reprint of journalist Louise Milligan’s Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell following extensive media coverage and ‘through the roof’ sales. A spokesperson...

Myth and legends: Sulari Gentill Q&A

Thursday, 25 May 2017
Sulari Gentill (S D Gentill) is the author of the ‘Rowland Sinclair’ mystery series, as well as ‘The Hero Trilogy’, which retells the Iliad and the Odyssey for a YA...

Modern love: Jean Flynn on ‘Lovesick’

Thursday, 25 May 2017
Jean Flynn’s debut novel Lovesick is the first title from Xoum Publishing’s new romance imprint XO Romance. Reviewer Kat Mayo describes it as a ‘fun romantic comedy’ with a ‘modern...

 

 

 

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