Former Text publicity manager Jane Novak has launched a literary agency following the retirement of literary agent Barbara Mobbs. Novak told Books+Publishing that ‘almost all of Barbara’s client list have... Read more
Liane Moriarty’s Truly Madly Guilty (Pan Macmillan) has won the fiction category in the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2016. Moriarty won the category with 30,154 votes, coming ahead of... Read more
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has appointed Helen Papadimitriou as its 2017 conference and trade exhibition coordinator following the departure of marketing and conference manager Steve Jones. ABA CEO Joel... Read more
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has launched a new service that offers self-publishers and micro-publishers the opportunity to list their books on TitlePage without becoming APA members. The ‘Batch Title... Read more
Founded in 2011, Rag and Bone Man Press is a Melbourne-based not-for-profit publisher whose aim is to ‘track down, gather and publish unique collections of stories in community-related book projects’.... Read more
In the US, campaign group Authors United has merged with the country’s largest writers’ organisation, the Authors Guild, reports the Bookseller. Originally set up to protect authors’ interests in Amazon’s... Read more