Pitched at MIFF 2023
Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Publishers and agents returned to the Melbourne International Film Festival's book-to-screen rights sales event Books@MIFF again this year, with a diverse range of titles selected for on-stage pitching, followed by...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Tom Langshaw
Wednesday, 9 August 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement at...
Suzie Miller on ‘Prima Facie’
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Suzie Miller is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist who splits her time between the UK and Sydney. Prima Facie (Picador, September) is an adaptation of her smash-hit one-woman play, which...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Genevieve Nelsson
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement at...
Thank you Mark Rubbo, from a sales rep
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Mark Rubbo retired as Readings MD on 28 July, after 50 years in the books business. Hardie Grant Books area manager, Victoria and Tasmania, Mandy Wildsmith reflects on working with...
Elise Esther Hearst on ‘One Day We’re All Going to Die’
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Melbourne-based playwright and author Elise Esther Hearst has been described as ‘one of the most interesting young playwriting voices in Australian theatre’. Her debut novel One Day We’re All Going...
Publishers flock to Threads
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Meta, the owners of Instagram and Facebook, launched the new app Threads—a very similar platform to Twitter—on 5 July, gaining 100 million users in only five days, as those frustrated...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Eloise Plant
Thursday, 20 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner announcement at...
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Kathleen O’Neill
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association Rising Star award recognises an emerging talent in Australian publishing who has spent less than 10 years in the industry. In the lead-up to the winner...
Kate Mildenhall on ‘The Hummingbird Effect’
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
Kate Mildenhall is a Melbourne-based writer whose first book, Skylarking, was longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize and Indie Book Awards. Her second novel was the widely lauded The Mother Fault. Her latest, The...
Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway on ‘Country Town’
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Historian and novelist Isolde Martyn and First Nations author Robyn Ridgeway have collaborated on a history of an imagined Australian country town, decade-by-decade from 1922 to the present day, illustrated...
Lonely Planet’s ‘blue spine’ guidebooks reimagined as publisher celebrates 50 years
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
As the travel category recovers from its pandemic low-point, Lonely Planet is celebrating 50 years. The publisher's senior director, trade sales & marketing Chris Zeiher talks to Books+Publishing about the...
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local fiction
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local fiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Also see our features for nonfiction as well as children’s and YA titles. Familiar names...
Ash Barty on ‘Ash Barty: Champion’
Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Ash Barty is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer from Queensland. Those who pick up the new Young Readers edition of her memoir, Ash Barty: Champion (HarperCollins), ‘will...
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local nonfiction
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local nonfiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Politics and culture Two books for those ready to read about the pandemic lockdowns: Life as...
Gabbie Stroud on ‘The Things That Matter Most’
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Gabbie Stroud is a self-professed 'recovering teacher' and author of the bestselling Teacher (2018, A&U) based in Merimbula, NSW. Her new adult novel, The Things That Matter Most (A&U, August), is an...
Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local children’s and YA
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local children’s and young adult titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Tis the season Among the children’s and YA titles coming in time for...
Maree Coote on ‘Letters for Lunch’
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Maree Coote is a celebrated Melbourne-based publisher, author and illustrator known for her captivating and intricately detailed illustrations. She won the coveted Bologna Ragnazzi 2017 Special Mention Prize for her...
The APA on a new ‘clean and modern’ TitlePage and future potential
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
The APA's Titlepage and supply chain manager Cat Colwell spoke to Books+Publishing about some recent changes to book pricing and availability service TitlePage, as well as its potential to provide more real-time...
Wendy Orr on ‘Honey and the Valley of the Horses’
Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Wendy Orr is a Canadian-born writer who now calls Australia home. She is the author of over 40 books but is perhaps best known for her beloved novel Nim's Island...
ABIAs: This year’s winners on their books, and the industry that produced them
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
At this year’s ABIA awards Books+Publishing digital producer Andrew Wrathall spoke with some of the winners about their books, bookshops and the trends affecting the industry. From BookTok, to paper...
Alice Wood on HarperCollins’s ABIA-shortlisted marketing campaigns
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
HarperCollins, under head of marketing communications Alice Wood, has received three of the five nominations for the inaugural Marketing Strategy of the Year award in this year's Australian Book Industry...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, part two
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
In part two of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner share the...
Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
In part one of an edited extract from their paper Neurodivergence and editing: An inside view, delivered at this year's IPEd conference, Louise Merrington AE and Tanja Gardner outline the...
Books without barriers: a new guide to accessible inclusive publishing
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
The product of two years’ work by IPEd’s Accessibility Initiative Working Party, based on a review of the international literature and a survey of local publishers, the new publication Books...
Amplify Bookstore’s winter picks
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Amplify Bookstore is an independent online bookseller specialising in books by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) authors, founded by Jing Xuan Teo and Marina Sano. Here, they share their...
Time to open a bookshop
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Various new bookshops have opened up across Australia this year and the previous year, with most of them being focused on children’s books. We take a brief look at the...
Carl Merrison on ‘Backyard Footy’
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Hailing from Halls Creek, children's author Carl Merrison won a 2020 black&write! fellowship to develop his 'Backyard Sports' picture book series. The first book, Backyard Footy (illus by Samantha Campbell, Lothian,...
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Books+Publishing's rights publication Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut is in the running for three NSW Premier's awards and the Stella...
How international book markets performed in 2022
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Through the PubMagNet initiative, a collaboration between book industry trade magazines from around the world, representatives from publications in Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the US have shared insights...