Editor’s picks: Andrea Hanke’s summer reads
Andrea Hanke shares her serious summer reads. While I enjoy a breezy rom-com as much as the next person, the prospect of several days of uninterrupted, beach umbrella-shaded reading time...
The nonfiction niche: Children’s nonfiction
Children’s and YA fiction gets the bulk of the attention when it comes to media coverage, awards and events. So why is children’s nonfiction considered the ‘ugly stepsister’ of children’s...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
Keen for 2014: A preview of forthcoming junior titles
Publishers tell Brad Jefferies about their favourite forthcoming children’s and YA books. Allen & Unwin Redgum’s popular Vietnam War song I Was Only Nineteen (John Schumann, illus by Craig Smith)...
William Morrow to revive Agatha Christie’s Poirot series
HarperCollins imprint William Morrow will revive Agatha Christie’s crime series featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot with a new novel by UK crime writer Sophie Hannah, said HarperCollins in a statement. Acorn Productions, owner...
HarperCollins NZ also accepting unsolicited manuscripts on Wednesdays
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced that it is accepting unsolicited manuscripts via its website. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, HarperCollins Australia recently launched an online unsolicited submission program, ‘the Wednesday...
HarperCollins to accept unsolicited manuscripts on Wednesdays
HarperCollins Australia has announced that it will begin accepting unsolicited manuscripts via its website this month. The publisher will launch ‘the Wednesday Post’ on 21 August. Through a new online portal,...
Patricia Cornwell moves to HarperCollins
HarperCollins has acquired world English language rights to two new books from crime writer Patricia Cornwell. The author was previously published by Penguin in the US and Little, Brown in...
HarperCollins partners with Autography
HarperCollins has partnered with US technology company Autography to use its digital book-signing technology. The patent-pending technology, which can be used on a wide variety of ereading devices, inserts a...
Second (shelf) life
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...
HarperCollins ANZ to report to US following restructure; Redmayne to replace Barnsley as UK CEO
The management of HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has moved from the UK to the US following a restructure of the publisher’s international businesses, reports the Bookseller. The restructure, which also sees...
Macdonald appointed contract publisher for HarperCollins NZ
HarperCollins New Zealand has appointed journalist and editor Finlay Macdonald to the newly created position of contract publisher to ‘steer its local publishing program’. Macdonald, who begins with HarperCollins...
Macdonald to join HarperCollins NZ
Journalist and editor Finlay Macdonald will join HarperCollins New Zealand on 18 July in the newly created position of contract publisher. Macdonald, who will be based in Auckland and will...
Redmayne to replace Barnsley as HarperCollins UK CEO
Victoria Barnsley, CEO of HarperCollins UK, has announced that she will leave HarperCollins this month after 13 years with the company. Barnsley, who was also previously CEO of HarperCollins International,...
HarperCollins to relocate NZ distribution to Australia
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has announced that it will relocate its New Zealand distribution to its Australian facilities in Moss Vale, New South Wales. HarperCollins said in a statement...
HarperCollins US launches digital proofs platform for authors, events
In the US, HarperCollins has launched a new program that allows authors and the publisher’s marketing and publicity teams to share digital proofs of forthcoming books, reports Publishers Weekly. The...
HarperCollins to consider relocating NZ distribution to Australia
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand is considering relocating its New Zealand distribution to its Australian facilities. HarperCollins said in a statement this week that CEO James Kellow has announced a...
News Corporation split approved
The board of News Corporation, the parent company of HarperCollins, has approved the decision to split the organisation into two separately traded companies, reports the Bookseller. The split, effective from...
Brockhoff joins Harlequin
Harlequin Australia has announced that Sue Brockhoff has joined the publisher in the role of publishing and communications manager. Brockhoff, who was previously head of fiction at HarperCollins, started in...
White appointed head of international at HarperCollins; Catherine Milne to acquire lit fiction for Fourth Estate
HarperCollins Australia has appointed Michael White to the newly created position of head of international publishing. HarperCollins Australia marketing and communications director Simon Milne told Books+Publishing that White’s role covers fiction...