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    Independent Publishing Conference tickets on sale The Small Press Network (SPN) has opened ticket sales for its 2023 Independent Publishing Conference, which runs from 23–25 November, has been announced. The conference, which is now in its 12th year, will run as a hybrid event taking place in person at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne and…

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    Self-published authors among RWA Ruby winners Several self-published titles were among the winners of the Romance Writers of Australia’s (RWA) 2023 Romantic Book of the Year Awards, known as the Ruby Awards. Nyssa Kathryn’s Jackson won the romantic suspense category, Susanne Bellamy’s Under the Dark Moon won for best historical romance, Alivia Fleur’s The Portrait…

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    ACT Notable Book Awards 2023 winners The winners of the ACT Notable Book Awards, which highlight and celebrate the excellence and talent of writers in and around the ACT region, have been announced. Each category features two winning titles: one published by a traditional publisher, and the other self-published. The winning self-published titles were: Fiction…

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    Self-published authors shortlisted for ACT Notable Book Awards  Numerous self-published authors have been shortlisted for the ACT Notable Book Awards, which highlight and celebrate the excellence and talent of writers in and around the ACT region. In the fiction category, S G Bryant is shortlisted for A Death in Black and White, and Tanya Davies…

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    Romance Writers of Australia Conference 2023 program revealed The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) annual conference will be held in Sydney from 11–13 August at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth. Under the theme of ‘All That Glitters’, the program aims to cater to writers at all stages of their careers, from those just starting out to…

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    2023 UK Selfies Award winners In the UK, trade publication Book Brunch announced the winners of the Selfies Book Awards, which recognise the best self-published adult fiction, children’s and memoir and autobiography titles, at an event at the London Book Fair. Halima Khatun won the adult fiction category for The Secret Diary of a Bengali…

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    ‘Grimmish’ removed from NSW Premier’s Literary Awards The novel Grimmish, self-published by author Michael Winkler in 2021 and published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2022, has been removed from the shortlist for the Christina Stead prize for fiction in the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. ‘Due to the fact that Grimmish was self-published before it was published at Puncher…

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    #BookTok authors help boost 2022 book sales The Australian print book market grew 7.2% last year to $1.3 billion, up from $1.26 billion in 2021, according to Nielsen BookScan. The total number of unit sales for 2022 was 70.9 million, an 8.2% year-on-year increase. Last year’s growth was driven by a boom in sales of…

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    Court blocks PRH acquisition of S&S  Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House (PRH), will appeal a ruling by a US federal court blocking its proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster (S&S). In a two-page order, judge Florence Pan found: ‘the United States has shown that the effect of [the proposed merger] may be substantially…

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    Independent Publishing Conference program announced The program for the 2022 Small Press Network (SPN) annual Independent Publishing Conference, which runs from 24–26 November, has been announced. The conference, which is now in its 11th year, will run as a hybrid event taking place in person at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne and streamed simultaneously online.…