writing and publishing
Love Your Bookshop Day announces ambassadors
Authors Sally Hepworth and Andy Griffiths are the inaugural ambassadors for 2024 Love Your Bookshop Day campaign.
The art of the author photo – how to take a portrait that sells your book
Like them or loathe them, author photos are a vital part of the publishing industry.
Book review: A Sorceress Comes to Call, T Kingfisher
A clever interpretation of a sinister fairy tale that examines the human side of terrifying magic.
Book review: Madame Brussels, Barbara Minchinton
A biographical insight into one of early Melbourne's most successful businesswomen.
5 ways to spot and avoid vanity publishers
How to avoid a publisher that profits not from selling books, but from asking authors to pay for publishing expenses.
Book review: The Temperature, Katerina Gibson
Six characters whose lives intersect in a novel that takes the pulse of the times.
Book review: Woo Woo, Ella Baxter
An unsettling book about art and creativity ... and being stalked.
Book review: Pig City, Andrew Stafford
A reprint to mark its 20th birthday, this book is still relevant.
Book review: The Wedding Forecast, Nina Kenwood
A romcom that celebrates friendship as much as romantic love.
Book review: Diving, Falling, Kylie Mirmohamadi
Grief, betrayal and taking back your own life is at the core of this debut novel.