The exciting Judy Nunn, our special surprise guest. Can’t wait to read her book. Look what greeted me when I got to Random House’s offices last Tuesday for the National Book Bloggers Forum! A lovely array of books all colour coded. Found some of our own Trudi Canavan at the ...

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Today I’m on the way home to Melbourne after a very exciting day spent at Random House in Sydney. It was a wonderful day, I had a blast, made some new friends and thanks to Penguin Random House exceeded my baggage allowance for my flight. This is a photo of ...

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I cringe and get thoroughly annoyed whenever someone calls me a Typo Nazi or a Grammar Nazi, I do not feel I am in any way as nasty, horrible and all encompassing as anything the Nazis did. Yes, it’s true, I might upset someone briefly and sometimes they’ll be annoyed ...

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Publishing house names can be an interesting thing. When they first started they were named after the founder and there are some big names in publishing. I’m talking people such as Gollancz, Shuster, Knopf and the ubiquitous many more. There’s been a shift and I’m going to talk about the ...

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Here are just a few things I’ve found on the web recently. Asteroid named after Scottish author Iain Banks The late Iain Banks had some influential fans and this one decided to honour him after his death by naming an asteroid after him. Mills & Boon and Cosmopolitan sign up ...

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There’s a new player in the ebook publishing industry. Draft2Digital has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged Smashwords to a duel. Not really but it sounds good. What Draft2Digital actually say is that they fill a hole in the market that Smashwords doesn’t fill. Smashwords is a publisher of ebooks. ...

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Three things that have come across my computer this week I feel moved enough to talk about. One The Royal Society of Literature enrolls its fellows using a special pen. Traditionally they’ve used a quill once belonging to Charles Dickens but that is beginning to wear after only a century ...

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Just a few words about book type things I’ve found this week. I’m running late and I’m sure you’re expecting a really good oval up because of it but you’ll be wrong. If you haven’t read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins then on no account pick it up as ...

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Just a little wander around the internet this week gives a few links for you. This little article talks about pop up shops and it reminded me of one I saw the other day at Brandon Park. I don’t recall the name of the shop but it sold books and ...

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You heard it here first! Suz’s Space will be the first to write a book on Pluto. Being published in the year 3000 it will consist of bon mots, double entendres and words that don’t exist in the word world today. Add your comment here and sign up to be ...

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Yesterday I wrote a few words about publishing and the slush pile being like the piles of books in Fahrenheit 451, if you want you can read it all here and then click back to this tab for the next link in the chain. Today I looked around to see what ...

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When printing really got going anyone could be published and it wasn’t called vanity publishing, actually, not anyone but almost anyone. Then as the decades went by publishing houses developed and more decades went by until publishing houses were becoming more and more picky about the books they published. At ...

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I’ve been looking at my time recently and wondering when I’d next have the time to write. I’m in the middle of an article I’m writing for someone else and I have to finish that so I can get paid. I have a plethora of books going from my To ...

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Whenever something disastrous happens we always play the blame game. Borders and Angus & Robertson have gone bellyup and now everyone is trying to blame everyone else. This happens all over the place, when the price of petrol goes up you can find many blogs blaming this, that or the ...

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I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now but it keeps getting put on the back burner as I have photos to put in and it all takes time. I’m planning for it to be about Indie Press, those fabulous people who commit themselves to publishing, those ...

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