Around 44,000 people attended this year’s four-day Perth Writers Festival (PWF), up from 38,500 last year. PWF program manager Katherine Dorrington told Books+Publishing that the festival’s... Read more |
Three new awards will be presented for the first time at this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). Two of the new awards, the Small Publisher... Read more |
Random House has published a retraction and apology over an allegation against senator Nick Xenophon in Julia Gillard’s autobiography. In a statement the publisher said that... Read more |
The Wheeler Centre’s resident organisations and the First Nations Australia Writers’ Network (FNAWN) have created a new part-time position of Victorian Indigenous literature officer. One... Read more |
Children’s publisher Wild Dog Books has partnered with not-for-profit organisation Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP) in Papua New Guinea to publish a series of books produced... Read more |
A Texas jury has ruled that American Jennifer Lynn Pedroza was defrauded by Australian Amanda Hayward over royalty rights to the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’... Read more |
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) will host the inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair on 1-3 May. Local and international book designers and publishers will... Read more |
The first line-up for the Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London has been announced. Kate Grenville, Steve Toltz, Alan Duff,... Read more |
The program for the 2015 Newcastle Writers Festival, to be held on 20-22 March, is now available online. The opening night of the festival will... Read more |
Australia Post will increase the price for some parcel deliveries and prepaid parcels from 2 March, among wider changes to pricing for its services. Parcels... Read more |
Hachette Australia has launched its own audiobook list under the Hachette Audio imprint. Hachette joint managing director Justin Ractliffe told Books+Publishing that the publisher will produce a selection of audiobooks... Read more |
Booktopia officially opened its 10,000 square metre headquarters and distribution centre in Homebush, Sydney, this week, to coincide with the company’s 11th birthday. The headquarters... Read more |
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) is celebrating its 20-year anniversary in 2015. To mark the anniversary, ACWA has partnered with Kill Your Darlings (KYD)... Read more |
Scribe has announced that it has signed another winner of its Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. Briohny Doyle was the co-winner of the inaugural... Read more |
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Drowning City (Ben Atkins, Random... Read more |
‘This is the first truly collaborative initiative that we’ve undertaken together’—Small Press Network general manager Mary Masters on the new Victorian Indigenous literature officer role,... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold Spanish rights to Prime Cut (Alan Carter) to Editorial Yulca. Text has sold Portuguese and Simplified Chinese rights to The... Read more |
This week’s bestsellers chart has a new number one, with Richelle Mead’s The Ruby Circle (Viking) placed first in both the top 10 bestsellers and the... Read more |
US book distributor Readerlink Distribution Services has acquired Baker & Taylor Publishing Group (BTPG) and Baker & Taylor Marketing Services US (BTMS), reports Publishers Weekly. Under... Read more |
A number of winners at this year’s Academy Awards on 22 February were based on or related to books, reports Shelf Awareness. Birdman or (the... Read more |
The London Book Fair (LBF) will stage its first social media conference on trends in global publishing, reports the Bookseller. The online conference, called ‘Around... Read more |
In the US, the nominees for the 2014 Nebula Awards have been announced. Titles nominated in the Fiction category of the Nebula Awards are: The... Read more |
Kindle Unlimited and similar ebook subscription services contravene French fixed price law and will be required to alter their practices within months, French culture minister... Read more |
In the US, the Cooperative Children’s Books Centre (CCBC) has released figures indicating US children’s books embraced greater diversity in 2014, reports Publishers Weekly. The... Read more |
Random House US has announced it will publish a recently ‘discovered’ picture book by Ted Geisel aka Dr Seuss on 28 July, reports Publishers Weekly. The book, entitled... Read more |
In the US, Amazon has expanded its one-hour delivery service Amazon Prime Now across most of Manhattan, reports Mashable. Two-hour delivery is also available in... Read more |
This delightful recollection of the rewarding year that writer Patti Miller spent in Paris completing a challenging manuscript is that rare object—a book for anyone... Read more |
Books Illustrated and the Australian Publishers Association (APA) have released the catalogue to accompany the ‘Hello! from Australia’ children’s book exhibition at the 2015 Bologna... Read more |
Three of the earliest known Chinese-Australian newspapers have been digitised by the National Library of Australia (NLA) and made available via Trove to mark the... Read more |
Composer Chris Williams has been named the Friends of the NLA inaugural Creative Arts Fellow. Williams will receive $10,000 and undertake a four-week residency at... Read more |
EBSCO buys YBP Library Services from Baker & Taylor Library service provider EBSCO has acquired YBP Library Services from Baker & Taylor, which has owned... Read more |
‘The first six months of the year can seem rather empty. Mother’s Day cookbooks. A few light fiction releases. A host of debut releases. A... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association will hold a webinar on finding international buyers for children’s books and rights from 9-10am on Friday, 6 March. The session... Read more |
Applications for the 2015 Hardcopy program are now open. Hardcopy is a professional development program for emerging Australian writers and the focus for 2015 will... Read more |
PNG literacy advocacy charity Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP) will be holding an event in celebration of their new patron, children’s author Alison Lester. The event... Read more |
 Please visit www.melbourneprize.org to register your interest in the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015 and Awards.
With a prize pool over $100,000, including a new award, all writing genres will be eligible. Open to Victorian residents only.
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Committed Undone by Elizabeth Lowrie will be published on Monday, 6 April at $29.99pbk and $16.99e. Published by Good Karma Books, available to bookstores via IngramSpark and Lightning Source and their distributors.
Elizabeth Lowrie’s story of love and love lost, retirement, travel and spiritual healing deals with Lowrie’s deep shock in the wake of the global publicity campaign for Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert. Elizabeth Lowrie is the first wife of José Nunes (AKA Filipe in Gilberts’ books) and Committed Undone is Lowrie’s attempt to make known her truth. Media interest is high with Australian Women’s Weekly running an interview and photoshoot in their March edition and more media to follow.
Be sure to order copies as Elizabeth is the only person selling hard copies retail from her website dreamwithinsight.com.au.
Email Elizabeth on info@dreamwithinsight.com.au for further information.
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Australian publication Annihilate Stress and Anxiety 9781922118448 written by Merryn Snare, published by Global Publishing Group, was included in the 87th Annual Academy Awards ‘Goodie Bag’.
Stock is available from Dennis Jones; eBook 9781742984759 from usual vendors.
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