Bologna: Local publishers report demand for ‘fun’ amid move away from ‘issues’
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Local news
Bologna Children’s Book Fair, held 8–11 April, was ‘the most upbeat fair for some time’, reported Scholastic senior rights manager Claire Pretyman. 'The mood was enthusiastic and joyful,' agreed Allen... Read more
Ashleigh Barton on ‘Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space Cadet’
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Features Interview
Ashleigh Barton is a children's author and copywriter from Sydney who draws on her rich experience in publishing and marketing, including work on Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor. Her latest, Freddie Spector,... Read more
Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space Cadet (Ashleigh Barton, illus Peter Cheong, Lothian)
Date: 23 April 2024Category: Reviews
Freddie Spector, Fact Collector: Space Cadet is the first instalment in this funny, fact-filled junior fiction series, ideal for ages 7 to 10. Freddie is a wacky, confident eight-year-old boy who... Read more
International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Awards International news
The shortlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$95,600), has been announced. The titles in the running for this year’s prize, chosen from a longlist of 13 announced... Read more
Australian Book Design Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 28 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
The shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The shortlisted titles in selected categories are: Best designed commercial... Read more
Grace the Amazing (Aleesah Darlison, Wombat Books)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
This tender middle-grade novel by well-established children’s author Aleesah Darlison (who wrote the popular junior series League of Llamas) explores friendship, coming to terms with death, and finding the courage... Read more
Who from Australia is at Bologna? Come and say hello at the Australian Stand party
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian editorial
In this Bologna Book Fair issue of Think Australian, we introduce you to Nicola Robinson, who will be attending Bologna for the first time, representing the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. See... Read more
Junior and middle-grade titles on offer at Bologna
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Junior Affirm Press describes its junior fiction title Forbidden Journal of Rufus Rumble #1: Worst Space Crew Ever (Nick Long, illus by Robin Tatlow-Lord) as Diary of A Wimpy Kid... Read more
Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Among the latest children’s and YA acquisitions by Australian publishers: Junior Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Landovel, a three-part junior fantasy adventure story from Emily Rodda.... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Fiction North American rights to The Heart Is a Star (Megan Rogers, HarperCollins) have been sold in a pre-empt to Central Avenue Publishing by Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency.... Read more
Ultra Violet: Down to Business (Cristy Burne, illus Rebel Challenger, Larrikin House)
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Reviews
Ultra Violet: Down to Business is the first in a new junior graphic novel series with a hilarious—but very scientific—premise. Violet (a science genius who wears a lab coat) and... Read more
The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Features
Last week, Books+Publishing heard why book publicists are picking and choosing when (or, more often, when not) to put efforts into TikTok coverage. Here, they argue against big launch parties—and... Read more
Larrikin House acquires ‘I Can’t Believe…’ nonfiction series
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to a nonfiction series with multiple authors, including John Larkin, Cristy Burne, Louise Park and George Ivanoff, to be illustrated by Jules Faber. The... Read more
International Booker Prize 2024 longlist
Date: 12 March 2024Category:
The longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$96,900), has been announced. The titles in the running for this year’s prize are: Crooked Plow (Itamar Vieira Junior, trans... Read more
The Work (Bri Lee, A&U)
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Having tackled power, privilege and sexual politics in her nonfiction books, Eggshell Skull, Beauty and Who Gets to Be Smart, Bri Lee brings the same shrewd scrutiny to her debut novel,... Read more
A&U promotes Forge to associate publisher
Date: 26 February 2024Category: Local news
Roarsome (Joel Slack-Smith, illus Rebel Challenger, Scholastic)
Date: 6 February 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Shower Land 1: Break the Curse (Nat Amoore, illus James Hart, Puffin)
Date: 23 January 2024Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Larrikin House acquires Harry, Foster junior fiction
Date: 11 January 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
UWAP acquires Polimeni junior fiction series
Date: 14 December 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
New year, new books: Children’s and young adult stories from local publishers
Date: 13 December 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
The facts on 2024’s nonfiction releases
Date: 6 December 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Reading into the year ahead: 2024 fiction and poetry preview
Date: 29 November 2023Category: Features Title preview feature
Rights round-up
Date: 22 November 2023Category: Rights round-up
A&U acquires Rodda junior fiction
Date: 20 November 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
2023 Storylines Notable Book Award winners announced
Date: 16 November 2023Category: Awards
Rights round-up
Date: 15 November 2023Category: Rights round-up
AI and AR at the Sharjah Publishers Conference
Date: 15 November 2023Category: Features
Larrikin acquires Vee, Faber junior fiction
Date: 15 November 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Larrikin House acquires two junior fantasy series
Date: 14 November 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Crawford wins inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize
Date: 26 October 2023Category: Awards Local news
Larrikin acquires world rights to Beck, Rankine junior fiction series
Date: 25 October 2023Category: Local news
Magabala to offer two $10k AIC Creative Grants
Date: 4 October 2023Category: Local news
Epics, experiments, escapism, excellence: Australian fiction at Frankfurt
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Features Think Australian feature
Authenticity, truth, wonder: Australian children’s and young adult titles at Frankfurt
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Think Australian feature
Latest acquisitions: Children’s and YA
Date: 3 October 2023Category: Think Australian rights
ABC Books acquires Georgiadis children’s gardening book series
Date: 27 September 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
EPAA 2023 winners announced
Date: 8 September 2023Category: Awards Local news
Educational Publishing Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Date: 18 August 2023Category: Awards Local news
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Kajal Narayan
Date: 16 August 2023Category: Features
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults winners announced
Date: 11 August 2023Category: Awards Local news
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Genevieve Nelsson
Date: 2 August 2023Category: Features
Meet the Rising Stars 2023: Kathleen O’Neill
Date: 18 July 2023Category: Features
Aggie Flea is Not a Liar! (Tania Ingram, illus A Yi, Scholastic)
Date: 11 July 2023Category: Reviews
WA Premier’s Book Awards winners announced
Date: 26 June 2023Category: Awards Local news
Former Hill of Content employee files federal court suit
Date: 14 June 2023Category: Local news
IPEd partners with black&write!
Date: 6 June 2023Category: Local news
NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults finalists announced
Date: 1 June 2023Category: Local news
Early to mid-career editor, Sydney
Date: 31 May 2023Category: Jobs
Abdu awarded Dal Stivens award, Hardcastle awarded Kathleen Mitchell award
Date: 29 May 2023Category: Awards Local news
Junior contracts and domestic rights assistant, Sydney
Date: 17 May 2023Category: Jobs
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
Date: 16 May 2023Category: Awards Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 19 April 2023Category: Rights round-up
Christmas Press acquires Carrington’s ‘Leaf Letters’
Date: 18 April 2023Category: Junior Local news Rights and acquisitions
Walker Books establishes biennial Manuscript Prize
Date: 12 April 2023Category: Awards Local news
Editor (children’s publishing), Sydney
Date: 12 April 2023Category: Jobs
Carl Merrison on ‘Backyard Footy’
Date: 11 April 2023Category: Features Interview
Editor (children’s publishing), Sydney
Date: 5 April 2023Category: Jobs
Jess Racklyeft on Bologna
Date: 21 March 2023Category: Features Junior
S&S acquires Reid debut novel
Date: 7 March 2023Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Etta and the Octopus (Zana Fraillon, illus by Andrew Joyner, Lothian)
Date: 28 February 2023Category: Junior Reviews
We love books for kids
Date: 21 February 2023Category: Think Australian editorial
Junior and middle-grade fiction offerings
Date: 21 February 2023Category: Think Australian feature
Magabala, Exciting 2023 First Nations Junior Fiction, BB homepage
Date: 17 February 2023Category: Book Buzz homepage item
Managing editor children’s publishing, Sydney
Date: 18 January 2023Category: Jobs
Junior accountant, Sydney
Date: 7 December 2022Category: Jobs
Sea Glass (Rebecca Fraser, Wombat Books)
Date: 6 December 2022Category: Junior Reviews
Product executive, Sydney
Date: 30 November 2022Category: Jobs
Publicity manager, Sydney
Date: 30 November 2022Category: Jobs
Books on parade: 2023 children’s and young adult preview
Date: 23 November 2022Category: Features Title preview feature
Product executive, Sydney
Date: 23 November 2022Category: Jobs
Campaign manager (PR and marketing role) 12-month contract, Sydney or remote from Melbourne
Date: 9 November 2022Category: Jobs
Junior editor, Sydney
Date: 9 November 2022Category: Jobs
Banned books, controversy, WebToon: children’s and YA in the US
Date: 2 November 2022Category: Features
Campaign manager (PR and marketing role) 12-month contract, Sydney or remote from Melbourne
Date: 2 November 2022Category: Jobs
The numbers boggle: an Australian in New York
Date: 19 October 2022Category: Features
Fair Work approves Readings EBA
Date: 14 October 2022Category: Local news
Faber Writing Academy appoints editor-in-residence
Date: 14 October 2022Category: Local news
Diverse new offerings from First Nations writers
Date: 13 October 2022Category: Think Australian feature Think Australian newsletter
Prize-winners, familiar names, debuts: Australian fiction at Frankfurt
Date: 13 October 2022Category: Think Australian feature Think Australian newsletter
Middle-grade series, queer YA romances: CYA books Aus publishers are pitching
Date: 13 October 2022Category: Think Australian feature Think Australian newsletter
Reflections on work and the future: Book industry survey 2022
Date: 12 October 2022Category: Features
High job satisfaction, low pay rates: Freelancers’ survey 2022
Date: 28 September 2022Category: Features
EPAA 2022 winners announced
Date: 8 September 2022Category: Awards Local news
Senior publicist, Sydney
Date: 31 August 2022Category: Jobs
‘Atua: Māori gods and heroes’ wins Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Date: 12 August 2022Category: Awards Junior Local news
Reviews, residencies, new publications receive latest Copyright Agency funding
Date: 25 July 2022Category: Local news
Various positions, Melbourne
Date: 13 July 2022Category: Jobs
Fair Work approves BRTD EBA
Date: 11 July 2022Category: Local news
Books yule love: 2022 Christmas children’s and young adult
Date: 6 July 2022Category: Features Junior Title preview feature
Itty Bitty Kitty (Maddy Mara, illus by Noémie Gionet Landry, Affirm)
Date: 5 July 2022Category: Junior Reviews
New APA training for early career rights professionals
Date: 24 June 2022Category: Local news
WA Premier’s Book Awards announced
Date: 20 June 2022Category: Awards Local news
Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) Book Supply packs 2023
Date: 16 June 2022Category: Classifieds
Marketing coordinator (junior), Sydney
Date: 16 June 2022Category: Jobs