Former UQP CEO Greg Bain will present up to 50 titles from Australian publishers to international publishers and agents as part of the Australian Publishers... Read more |
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Ingram Publisher Services will distribute Black Inc., La Trobe University Press and Nero Books titles in the UK from September 2017, and in North America... Read more |
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Scribe’s children’s imprint Scribble has sold North American rights to Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys’ picture book The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade to Abrams Books. Abrams... Read more |
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2017 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted works in each... Read more |
Magabala Books has announced a new biennial award for Indigenous illustrators, with the winner to receive $10,000, a mentorship and the opportunity to illustrate a... Read more |
Penguin Random House (PRH) New Zealand managing director Margaret Thompson will leave the company on 28 July. Thompson was appointed to the role in 2014... Read more |
In the UK, Little Brown imprint Piatkus has acquired two novels by self-published New Zealand author Tammy Robinson in a five-figure deal, reports the Bookseller.... Read more |
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Zoe Morrison has won the 2017 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for her debut novel Music and Freedom (Vintage). Morrison’s novel was chosen from... Read more |
The shortlists for the 2017 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Birth to... Read more |
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Aden Rolfe has won the 2017 Mary Gilmore Award for his poetry collection False Nostalgia (Giramondo). The award was presented by the Association for the Study... Read more |
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the Walkley-Pascall Award for arts criticism and the new Arts Journalism Award. Walkley-Pascall Award for arts criticism... Read more |
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Ian McConnelly’s Renniks Australian Pre-Decimal & Decimal Coin Errors: The Premier Guide for Australian Pre-Decimal & Decimal Coin Errors (Renniks) is one of five books... Read more |
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Melbourne Writers Festival will engage six ‘digital storytellers’ for its 2017 festival, running from 25 August to 3 September. The six bloggers and writers will... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2017 Australian Christian Book of the Year been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Hermeneutics as Apprenticeship: How the Bible Shapes Our... Read more |
Online bookseller Booktopia has been named a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards in the medium-sized category for New South Wales. The company has entered... Read more |
Pearson will sell a 22% stake in Penguin Random House (PRH) to co-shareholder Bertelsmann, whose share of the company will increase to 75%, reports the... Read more |
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An independent bookseller in the UK has written a blog post criticising the heavy discounting of Philip Pullman’s first ‘Book of Dust’ novel at other... Read more |
A new picture book by the late Maurice Sendak and his frequent collaborator Arthur Yorinks has been discovered in Sendak’s archives, reports Publishers Weekly. Presto... Read more |
Oxford University Press (OUP) has recorded a 3.3% increase in turnover to £847.4m (A$1450m) for the year ending 31 March 2017, reports the Bookseller. The... Read more |
In the UK, publisher the Quarto Group has issued a profit warning and admitted it had set its original guidance for 2017 and beyond too... Read more |
In the UK, Bloomsbury has signed up more than 7000 titles for a new textbook subscription service Perlego, reports the Bookseller. Describing itself as ‘Spotify... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Sandy Wagner Creative Agents has sold world rights to Bohemia Beach (Justine Ettler) to Transit Lounge, to be published in August 2018. Jane Novak... Read more |
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Australian author Monica McInerney’s latest novel The Trip of a Lifetime (Michael Joseph) has debuted at sixth spot on this week’s bestseller chart. It’s one of... Read more |
‘With precise and beautiful prose, the short stories in Jennifer Down’s Pulse Points carry an emotional clarity and intensity that is truly impressive’ … read... Read more |
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 12 reviews of books publishing in September. The ‘profoundly moving love poem’ Pea Pod Lullaby (Glenda Millard, illus by Stephen... Read more |
The Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) has warned the WA state government’s push to make the State Records Office part of the State Library of... Read more |
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has launched Book Club Central, a new online platform of reading resources for book clubs. Resources include... Read more |
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Sydney’s Beachside Bookshop, which specialises in teen fiction, celebrated its one-year anniversary earlier this year. Read owner and second-generation bookseller Libby Armstrong’s bookseller’s diary here.
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Kate Lloyd started reviewing books on Instagram as a way to connect with like-minded readers. Her blog Lillytales now spans YouTube, Twitter, Goodreads and Litsy,... Read more |
Chronicle Books is celebrating 50 years with an international competition to win $1000 AUD cash. The competition is open to all booksellers, simply create a display using at least 10 Chronicle books and send photographs through to Hannah_moushabeck@chroniclebooks.com by 1 September.
For further details contact your Hardie Grant sales rep or head to hardiegrantbooks.com.au.
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Hardie Grant Egmont is once again inviting unpublished writers to submit middle-grade or young adult manuscripts for the 2017 Ampersand Prize.
Before submitting a manuscript, it is recommended that writers please check the Ampersand website to familiarise themselves with all entry requirements including the submission guidelines, which have been updated for 2017.
Ampersand Prize submissions are being accepted now, until Friday 28 July 2017.
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Titles in the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) ‘Australia @ Frankfurt’ program will be presented to international publishers and agents through an intensive three days of meetings, to be conducted by former UQP CEO Greg Bain.
Greg will take up to 50 titles from Australian publishers who are seeking to increase their export opportunities. Titles from across all publishing categories are welcome, including children’s, young adult, fiction and non-fiction. Sample copies of the books will be displayed, and a special catalogue will be produced to further promote all participants’ books and be distributed widely to publishers and agents at the Fair.
All participating publishers will be provided with a post-fair report, including feedback on their books and initial follow up from all leads generated.
Interested publishers should contact Cat Smith or direct to Greg Bain.
Read more about the ‘Australia @ Frankfurt’ program here.
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The Digital Writers’ Festival (DWF) is running an open artist call out for writers who would like to be involved in the 2017 program. Artists only need an internet connection to participate, and DWF is encouraging people from all over Australia to apply.
DWF is an online-first festival dedicated to exploring the challenges and possibilities of storytelling in the digital realm. This year, the festival will run from 26 October – 3 November.
Applications can be made here. Applications close 23 July.
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