Ventura sells ‘A Superior Spectre’ to the UK
Ventura Press has sold UK rights to Angela Meyer’s debut novel A Superior Spectre to Scottish publisher Saraband. Publisher Sara Hunt acquired rights at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair via UK-based agency Abner...
‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ to be adapted as TV miniseries
Synchronicity Films will adapt Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) as a television drama miniseries. The project is currently in development, with Australian writer-producer Jacquelin Perske to adapt Morris’...
Ghost in the machine: Angela Meyer on ‘A Superior Spectre’
Writer and editor Angela Meyer’s debut full-length novel, A Superior Spectre (August), is the first book published under the new Ventura Press imprint for emerging writers, Peter Bishop Books. The...
A Superior Spectre (Angela Meyer, Peter Bishop)
Angela Meyer’s A Superior Spectre is an eerie, gothic work that is both a richly detailed historical novel and a chilling prediction of the near future. The book follows Jeff,...
Behind the marketing campaign: Kirstin Corcoran on ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’
Heather Morris’ debut novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo) is a fictionalised account of Austrian-Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor Ludwig ‘Lale’ Sokolov's experience of being a tattooist (tätowierer) in a prison camp...
Echo acquires Morris, Evans and Jeffreys
Bonnier Publishing’s Echo imprint has acquired three new novels, set for release in 2018 and 2019. Echo had acquired world rights to the second novel by Heather Morris, whose debut,...
New Ventura Press imprint signs Meyer
The debut novel by Melbourne writer and Echo Publishing commissioning editor Angela Meyer has been acquired by Ventura Press’ new Peter Bishop Books imprint. Martin Shaw, a literary agent at...
Echo acquires historical novel from Meg Keneally
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Meg Keneally’s historical novel Fled in a two-book deal. The novel, which is based on the life of convict Mary Bryant, will be...
Five Mile acquires Barnes children’s book; Echo acquires Jones’ novel
Bonnier Publishing Australia imprint Five Mile has acquired two children’s books by Jimmy Barnes for publication in April 2017. The two books will revolve around the adventures of Och Aye,...
Inkerman & Blunt acquires five Nick Earls novellas
Melbourne-based small publisher Inkerman & Blunt has acquired five novellas by Nick Earls, to be published over five months beginning in June 2016. Publisher Donna Ward told Books+Publishing that Inkerman...
Melbourne teacher launches $5000 grant for online writing
Melbourne teacher and blogger Philip Thiel has announced the formation of the $5000 Thiel Grant for Online Writing, aimed at supporting inventive online writing. The recipient will commit to producing 50...
Meyer joins Five Mile Press
Author, editor and Literary Minded blogger Angela Meyer has been appointed commissioning editor at the Five Mile Press.Meyer will be working on the publisher’s adult list, focussing on nonfiction and...
Getting the word out: Angela Meyer on the debut author experience
My first work of fiction, a petite collection of tiny (but hopefully powerful) stories, commonly referred to as ‘flash fictions’, is out in May with Inkerman & Blunt. Inkerman &...
First impressions: Promoting debut authors
New voices are vital to an exciting, engaged book industry, but finding readers for untested authors can also present a challenge. Angela Meyer examines some of the ways debut authors,...
Angela Meyer: tips on chairing panels and interviewing authors
I’m sharing what I’ve learnt about chairing and interviewing authors on stage, particularly through watching good, mediocre or bad sessions at festivals, not just due to my own experience chairing...
Captives (Angela Meyer, Inkerman & Blunt)
In her first book of fiction, writer and literary journalist Angela Meyer demonstrates her gift for painting vivid pictures with a few adroit, restrained brush strokes. ‘Few’ being the operative word here—with...
Publisher Inkerman & Blunt launched
A new publisher has been launched in Melbourne. Inkerman & Blunt is the brainchild of Donna Ward, founding editor of WA creative writing journal Indigo. The publisher will release its...
Meyer creates literary video series
Literary blogger and former Bookseller+Publisher acting editor Angela Meyer has started an online video series ‘A Drink with…’ with episodes of 15 minute literary chats with authors in Melbourne cafes....
ABA confirms additional conference speakers
Literary blogger and former Bookseller+Publisher acting editor Angela Meyer and ‘author, blogger and tweeter' John Birmingham will appear at this year's Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) annual conference. Meyer and Birmingham...
Miller and the Miles Franklin: Do we have too many awards?
From today's Crikey newsletter, former Bookseller+Publisher editor and literary blogger Angela Meyer writes: Are there too many literary awards in Australia, and is our oldest one 'slipping away'? If an Australian...