Australian producer Bruna Papandrea’s company Made Up Stories has acquired screen rights to Holly Ringland’s debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Fourth Estate), and will develop the project... Read more
Australian children’s book creators Yves Stening and Nigel Buchanan are one of five intellectual property owners selected to pitch at the world’s biggest children’s entertainment industry event, MIPJunior. Held on... Read more
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced it will no longer produce its biannual print magazine, Australian Author, and will transition to digital publishing. ‘The financial argument is now... Read more
Australian crime-thrillers are currently dominating the fiction bestsellers chart, with Chris Hammer’s debut novel Scrublands at number one for September following its release a month earlier. Other crime-thrillers in the... Read more
In the US, more than one million books were self-published in 2017, breaking the record for the the total number of titles self-published in a year, according to a report... Read more