On tour: Meet the author Lucy Knisley
Monday, 15 July 2013
US author, illustrator and comic book artist Lucy Knisley is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s schools program. Knisley’s books include French Milk (Touchstone) and Relish (First...
I dream of genies: Lynda Nixon and Jennifer McBride on ‘Shimmer’
Monday, 15 July 2013
Co-authors and sisters Lynda Nixon and Jennifer McBride have written Shimmer (Fremantle Press, October) for younger readers about a teenage genie who is sent to Earth. They spoke to Dani Solomon. One...
Found in translation: Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke and Julia Marshall
Monday, 15 July 2013
Berbay Publishing and Gecko Press have built their publishing lists by cherry-picking the best children’s books from around the world, reports Kate Blackwood. When Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke, managing director at Melbourne’s...
Kicking goals: Sports books for kids
Monday, 15 July 2013
Teamwork, competition, glory: sport has all the ingredients for an exciting read. Andrew Wrathall spoke to some publishers and booksellers about sport books for children. The Australian Football League (AFL)...
New Adult: using it or losing it?
Monday, 15 July 2013
Australian publishers are starting to use the term in their marketing material, but what exactly is new adult, and how is it being used by booksellers? Cordelia Rice reports. In...
Talkback: industry involvement in world book events
Monday, 15 July 2013
Should the Australian book industry get more involved in international events such as World Book Night? Books+Publishing asked three booksellers. Mike Gratwick, co-owner, Dymocks Busselton No, I don’t believe that...
Second (shelf) life
Monday, 15 July 2013
Portia Lindsay finds out what publishers can do to give underperforming titles a second chance. For a book that doesn’t capture the audience’s attention through positive (or with shrinking literary...
Space and time: Scott Baker on ‘The Rule of Knowledge’
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Scott Baker’s time-travel thriller The Rule of Knowledge (Hachette) is out in September. Reviewer Lachlan Jobbins said the book ‘gets better and better the more you read’. You can read his...
On tour: Meet the author Ruth Ozeki
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Canadian-American author Ruth Ozeki is visiting Australia in September. Her most recent novel A Tale for the Time Being (Text) tells the story of Ruth, who finds the diary of...
On tour: Meet the author Jackson Pearce
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
US young adult author Jackson Pearce is visiting Australia in July for the Children’s and Young Adult Writers and Illustrators Conference in Perth. Pearce is the author of several novels,...
The golden girls: Clare Wright on ‘The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka’
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (Text, November) gives the untold story of the women who worked on the goldfields of Ballarat. Reviewer Patrick Mullins said Wright has ‘a...
Louise Fay on what booksellers want from publishers
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
At the recent Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, Daniel Pink, author of To Sell Is Human, told us that buyers and sellers are now at information parity. Customers have access...
On tour: Meet the author Julia Quinn
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Romance author Julia Quinn is visiting Australia in August for the Romance Writers of Australia Conference in Fremantle. Quinn’s newest book is the ninth in the ‘Bridgertons’ series, The Bridgertons:...
Tasmanian devils: Lenny Bartulin on ‘Infamy’
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Lenny Bartulin’s Infamy (A&U, October) tells the story of William Burr, an adventurer on the trail of an escaped convict turned bushranger. Reviewer Tim Coronel called the novel a ‘rollicking,...
After the winter: Claire Zorn on ‘The Sky So Heavy’
Monday, 3 June 2013
Claire Zorn’s The Sky So Heavy (UQP, August) tells the story of a group of Australian teenagers struggling to stay alive in the wake of a nuclear winter. Reviewer Kate...
No ordinary friendship: A J Betts on ‘Zac & Mia’
Monday, 3 June 2013
A J Betts’ YA novel Zac & Mia won the 2012 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. Reviewer Natalie Crawford gave the book five stars, calling it ‘a...
Just for kicks: David Lawrence on ‘Fox Swift’
Monday, 3 June 2013
Comedy writer David Lawrence’s Fox Swift (Slattery Media, July) tells the story of 11-year-old Francis ‘Fox’ Swift, who joins a country footy team that gains the expertise of a genuine...
On the world stage: Tracy Farr on ‘The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt’
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Tracy Farr’s debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Fremantle Press, September) tells the story of Lena, a woman from Perth who found international fame after becoming the...
Warren Bonett on what booksellers want from publishers
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
In the relationship between the bookseller and the publisher, the latter holds most of the cards. Publishers supply direct to consumers, sometimes at a similar discount to wholesale; they set...
On tour: Meet the author Dermot Healy
Friday, 24 May 2013
Irish novelist, memoirist, poet and short-story writer Dermot Healy is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His latest novel Long Time, No See (Faber & Faber) was nominated for the International...
On tour: Meet the author Anita Desai
Friday, 24 May 2013
Indian novelist and professor Anita Desai is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Desai is the author of short-story collections and novels for adults and children, three...
Catherine Schulz on what booksellers want from publishers
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
For the engaged bookseller, I think the relationship with Australian publishers is quite good. Keeping in touch with publishers via conferences, roadshows, author dinners and office visits (and even facebook...
Interview: Jemma Birrell, artistic director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival
Thursday, 16 May 2013
With the Sydney Writers’ Festival just arond the corner (20-26 May), Books+Publishing spoke to artistic director Jemma Birrell about what visitors can expect from this year’s festival and her personal...
Jon Page on the digital future for booksellers
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Pages & Pages general manager Jon Page is stepping down as president of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) in June. In his final ‘President’s report’ in the ABA’s News on...
On tour: Meet the author Mark Forsyth
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
British writer, journalist and blogger Mark Forsyth is visiting Australia in May for the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His two books about words, The Etymologicon and The Horologicon, are published together...
Bodies on the page: Michael Robotham on ‘If I Tell You I’ll Have to Kill You’
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
In Michael Robotham’s If I Tell You I’ll Have to Kill You (A&U) some of Australia’s best crime writers share their advice on writing, researching and reading. Reviewer Shane Strange...
On tour: Meet the author Jane Smiley
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
American author Jane Smiley will visit Australia in July to attend the Mildura Writers’ Festival. Smiley, a writer of novels and short stories for adults and children, won the 1992...
On tour: Meet the author Deborah Ellis
Friday, 3 May 2013
Canadian writer Deborah Ellis is visiting Australia in August for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s Schools’ Program. Her latest book, the third in the ‘Parvana’ series, is Parvana’s Promise (A&U), the...
Between the real and the surreal: Felicity Volk on ‘Lightning’
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Reviewer Max Oliver described first-time author Felicity Volk’s book Lightning (Picador) an ‘ambitious, finely written novel’ that tells the story of ‘two outsiders finding each other’. He spoke to the...
A simpler life: Inga Simpson on ‘Mr Wigg’
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Reviewer John Purcell credited Inga Simpson’s Mr Wigg (Hachette) with giving him ‘that warm feeling that comes from having read something that has strengthened or even reawakened a sense of what is...
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