Tag Archives: publishing
Column: Books and Writing
Bento books
My recent dependence on the Japanese café near my office seems to be having an impact on my mindset. Over my carefully prepared bento box I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of containers. The Japanese have an important tradition of presenting food in careful, clever … Read more
Column: Books and Writing
Poster girl for persistence: Annabel Smith’s Whisky, Charlie, Foxtrot
Annabel Smith is something of a poster girl for me. She exemplifies just what it takes to keep writing in an increasingly tough publication environment. Her first novel, A New Map of the Universe, was one of the flagship publications for the new writing imprint at the … Read more
KYDYAC
What does YA mean to you? A discussion about definition
Image: Horia Varlan We’ve been doing quite a bit of thinking and talking about what constitutes Young Adult (YA) fiction lately. It’s quite a topical, contentious subject amongst writers, readers, publishers and sellers. So, in the lead up to the KYD YA Championship, without being purposefully reductive … Read more
Issue Ten
Issue Ten Teaser: Gideon Haigh’s ‘“You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on”: Falling In and Out of Love with The Office’
For our first teaser from KYD No.10, Gideon Haigh reflects on trials, tribulations and triumphs of his relationship with his recent book The Office. If this teaser leaves you wanting more, you can find the full text of this essay and more on our website in the … Read more
Comment
The death of the long sentence
When did the long sentence die? There is no anniversary on which to mourn its gentle passing. Clearly, it was still alive and well in the first half of the twentieth century – some of my favourite proponents of the long sentence published their unwieldy masterpieces in … Read more
Books
Story of a Cover: Cargo
I’ve always had a nerdish fascination with book covers and the design-by-committee process through which they are made. After all, a book doesn’t start out with a cover. It begins life as text, faceless to the outside world. Typesetting, fonts, embossing and finish – all that comes … Read more
Books
The story of Sectioned
Self-publishing your first book can be a terrifying prospect, even when you know what you’re doing. When I was a child I wrote a story about a polar bear, typed it up, added pictures, designed a cover and bound it into a rather crude-looking book. Little did … Read more
Events
The Face of the Book Industry
Together with Readings we invite you to join us for a discussion on the book industry. What’s working, and what’s not? How have consumers changed? Join us as Mark Rubbo (Managing Director of Readings), Michael Heyward (Publisher at Text) and Matthia Dempsey (Editor-in-chief of Bookseller+Publisher, the Weekly … Read more
News
New Models for Book Publishing
Melbourne University’s Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) is presenting a free public seminar in Melbourne in association with the Centre for Media and Communications Law (CMCL), Melbourne Business School (MBS) and the Publishing and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne. The book publishing business … Read more
