Too many things to share with you all! First of all, look at this beautiful book: The latest from the incredibly talented Bel Schenk, Every Time You Close Your Eyes is set during a power outage in New York in the seventies. It's an amazing one-sit read. Buy here! Secondly, are creative courses killing Western literature? Horace Engdahl seems to be making the…
Continue readingOkay okay okay. Deep breaths. We got some good ones on their way! First things first: we've got two very different and very exciting books coming out within a day of each other. Memoirs of Mixed Fortunes is a memoir from the (self-styled) first native-born South Australian, Samuel Joseph Stuckey. Including recollections of his brush with the Burke and Wills group, his time in Pakistan getting camels for use in the north, and the shooting death…
Continue readingSorry about the absence without leave, guys, but we've been pretty darn busy over here -- As some of you will be aware by now, Wakefield Press has moved! We were the cool kids on the block in Kent Town for twenty-five years, and it's an area that we will always love dearly. Sometimes, though, it's time for a change. A new place. More storage space. A shake-up, if you will. And we'd been admiring the…
Continue readingSo, at this point, I'm pretty sure it will never get warm and we're going to live in an endless winter and eventually die of sunlight deprivation with most of our extremities missing. Sometimes my ears get cold on the ride into work, you know? It's getting pretty dire. (Also, possibly besides the point, but how do you ride without using your hands? I keep on trying and end up swerving wildly into oncoming traffic.)…
Continue readingOne of the things that constantly surprises in this industry, is how little most people actually know about the publishing process. While we'd all like to pretend that the book is written, a wand is waved and then it's ready to hit the shops, the process is actually a little more laborious than that. So here, in the time-honoured tradition of digestible seven-point guides, is Wakefield Press's seven steps of publishing: 1. Write the book Step…
Continue readingSo, Sally Hunter (née Foster) is about to swim in the Commonwealth Games, Kate Strohm's casually ambling all over the world, and Sally van Gent has so many author events coming up that we've been considering sending her a few cases of energy drinks to help her out! …
Continue readingReady for a bit of jealousy for your Monday morning? WP author Kate Strohm has sent word back from Italy, where she presented a one day seminar on the topic of siblings of children with disability in Assisi (looks terrible, right?). She says, With an audience of family members and professionals, the seminar was a lively and rewarding day. It is interesting that the issues are the same for families the world over. This particular event was so…
Continue readingThe SALA Festival is almost upon us, and we're celebrating art writers over at Wakefield! At the top of the particularly excellent list is the SALA Writing Art Literary Dinner, and you're all invited, just by the way -- Good food, good company, interesting conversation – can you go wrong? Oh, and about that food – let me show you a peek of the menu so you know what I'm talking about: AMIRITE??
Continue readingHi! My name is Simon Collinson and I’m Wakefield Press’s new ‘Geek in Residence’. Thanks to the generosity of the Australia Council, I’m here until the end of August to work on Wakefield’s ebook business. So what exactly are ebooks? Essentially, they’re a website in a box: a kind of text file which can be displayed on computers, tablets, phones, and dedicated ereader devices. Ebooks come in a few formats. The most widely used of…
Continue readingJust had to share. Today we found actual grammar Nazis. And then discovered that we wished we could take Annabelle Lukin's classes. Sound rad. And here's a picture of a kitten. That is all.
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