Some really exciting launches and events coming up (again!) this month! Elizabeth Baines reads from her collection of short stories 'Balancing on the Edge of the World' at Huddersfield Literature Fest...

Phew!  If January was a quiet month, then February more than makes up for it, with Bookarazzi members launching books left, right and ... well, here. Sally Hinchcliffe's psychological thrille...

It's looking like a quiet start to the new year ... On the Bookarazzi front, the main news is about the final leg of Tania Hershman 's virtual book tour to promote The White Road and Other Sto...

Still looking for that elusive perfect Christmas present for those hard-to-please people in your life? May we humbly suggest that - such is the depth and breadth of talent among the authors of Bookara...

Can it really be that time already?  Seems it can ... On Wednesday 3rd December at 5pm, Emma Darwin will be appearing at Goldsmiths College to talk about her recently published second novel, A S...

It may be dark and dismal outside, but there's plenty of light bright lit stuff happening this month to while away the hours. Brian Clegg is appearing at the Beyond Words Festival at University ...

Last year, Sarah Salway and Lynne Rees ran daily prompts on the Messages website – www.yourmessages.org – to publicise the second edition of their joint book of 300 pieces of 300 words, Messages. ...

Coming up this month: Sarah Salway will be reading at Birkbeck's WritLOUD event. Monday 13 October, 6.30-8.15 pm, RADA Foyer Bar, Malet Street, London WC1E 7JN Special event featuring short s...

Lots of novel ideas out there ... Last week's Independent on Sunday had a special issue examining whether intelligent literature can survive in the digital age. (See here.) John Walsh's article, Spi...

And the winners are hot off the press: Fiction: The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte Non-Fiction: Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers by Philip Jones It's t...

The short lists for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced today and they include both well-known and emerging Australian writers: Short list for Fiction Burning In Mireille Juchau El...

If I had to list my greatest loves in life (apart from human ones) books and coffee would be jostling for position at the top. So how cool can the Espresso Book Machine be? (See here for article in T...

A subject that is much discussed in children's editorial departments is how to get the right books to the right children at the right time. When I was an editor at Scholastic we discussed it endle...

Amazon has been removing the “buy button” from some of the Hachette Livre books and also removing some of their titles from promotional positions such as “Perfect Partner”, in ...

Kedzie Press, a green independent publisher, launched in partnership with Eco-Libris the Kedzie Million Tree-A-Thon, a new green initiative that aims to plant a million trees for a million books to be...

Last week the shortlists for the Romantic Novelist's Association Novel of the Year and Romance Prize were announced. I am a fully paid up enthusiastic member of the Romantic Novelist's Associ...

The William Saroyan Prize is open to works of fiction (novels, short stories, or drama) or non-fiction (biography, history, or memoirs) first published during 2005-2007. Deadline is 31 Jaunuary 2008....

From Merc's blog :  Winds of change are definitely blowing. Here's an announcement from the Australian Society of Authors - and it's for Aussie writers anywhere in the world! "...

  Author events: two words that have always sent horror sinking through me. For the ten or so years that I’ve been writing children’s books, I have pretended to be too busy for such t...

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