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2009 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and Translation Prize winners
Penguin Books- RRP $24.95 Nam Le was awarded the 2008 Book of the Year on Monday night for his short story collection The Boat. He also picked up a rare double, netting the the UTS Glenda Adams Award...
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Young Adult Book of the Month: August 2009
Vulture's Gate - Mad Max with Roborapters VULTURE’S GATE – Kirsty Murray 40 years in the future, a plague has destroyed human’s ability to conceive females. In the Australian desert the roving bands...
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Australian Fantasy Highlights: July and August 2009
Fantasy writing is flourishing in Australia these days. Led by established authors such as Garth Nix, Kate Forsythe and Isobel Carmody, the quality of Aussie fantasy just keeps getting better and...
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Australian SF & Fantasy Highlights: November 2009
Hearts Blood - Beauty and the Beast gets a working over NOVEMBER’S BEST AUSTRALIAN FANTASY HEARTS BLOOD – Juliet Marillier NZ born author Juliet Marillier has achieved a huge international audience...
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Self Publishing Part 4: Who’s really publishing your book? The changing face...
The confluence of digital technologies such as online retail, eBooks, print-on-demand (POD), desktop publishing and social media has dramatically shifted the balance of book publishing around the world...
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Self Publishing Part 5: The Fiscal Art of Book Design (or people judge books...
Just one of thousands of cheaply thrown together covers plaguing the Kindle store … Bad cover design is rife among self published books and a quick search on any online book store will quickly show up...
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Self Publishing Part 6: Six Tips for Getting Format and Layout Right First Time
We still use many of the same design concepts used in the Gutenberg Bible Formatting should be invisible in a book – the hidden scaffolding that allows the reader to smoothly step into the narrative...
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Oracle Cards and Author Platforms – Hay House Writers’ Workshop 2012
I was invited to attend the Hay House Writer’s Workshop this week in Sydney and the catch phrase of the day was author platform. In fact, if you assumed that a writing workshop run by the world’s...
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Self Publishing Part 7: The Consonant Gardener – The Three C’s of Internal...
A well formatted book is like a beautifully landscaped garden Imagine your book with no headings, no paragraph breaks and no formatting – just one long line of text, sentence after sentence with no...
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Posts of the Week – The Blog Round-up Sep 21
I read a huge number of blogs and articles each week about the book industry, including thoughts on creative writing, publishing, book reviews and everything in between. With so many very talented...
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The Forgotten Sales Channel Part 1 – Book distribution for self-publishers
[Originally posted on digireado.com.au: Part One sets the scene for the current bookselling landscape in Australia and why a book distributor is important and Part 2 will look in more detail...
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Is the post-bookstore world inevitable? 5 ways bookshops can fight back
The Digital Bookworld Conference took place last week in New York and as usual produced some fascinating discussion and ideas about the future of digital publishing. Front and centre this year was...
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