Booksellers NZ has published a very useful article on self-publishing in New Zealand in their weekly e-newsletter, The...
Links relating to the Hachette/Amazon situation
In case you missed it, there’s a significant battle going on between publisher Hachette and Amazon. The result...
Win the entire Psy-Changeling series!
To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Kiwi specfic author Nalini Singh‘s latest novel, Shield of Winter, we are giving...
First Graphic Novel Competition
The winner of the First Graphic Novel Competition has been announced. This is a biennial competition for a graphic...
Submission opportunity: Poetry competition
Submissions for the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Poetry Competition close on 31 May 2014. There are separate...
Mayday: A Kaiju Thriller
Mayday: A Kaiju Thriller by Chris Strange We couldn’t destroy the monsters, so we enslaved their minds. But...
New book networking site
Penguin Random House are establishing a new book networking/recommendations site called My Independent Bookshop. From a Kiwi bookselling...
Submission opportunity: self-published novels
The Guardian (UK newspaper) and Legend Times (publisher) have teamed up to offer a monthly literary prize for...
Submission opportunity: horror writing
The James Herbert Award for Horror Writing has just been established in the UK by Pan Macmillan. The inaugural...
What if the X-Men published classic books?
Chad Miller has recreated – erm, I mean discovered – classic books as published by the X-Men under...
Book launch: Engines of Empathy by Paul Mannering
Until this morning, Charlotte Pudding was almost happy with her life. Apart from her homicidal toaster, dead parents,...
Best New Zealand poems
The International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University Wellington publishes the best New Zealand poems annually. The...
Comic book news
Publishers Weekly provides a useful round-up of comic book news, including a newsletter you can subscribe to. It’s...
Children’s & YA Book Awards Festival
The New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Festival will take place across Aotearoa from 17 to...
Edible Book Awards
Did you know the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology holds annual Edible Book Awards? Here’s the round-up of...