We have been so lucky in WA. We began 2021 with such optimism. Our hard border was softening, and with such a long run without any community coronavirus infections, the new year promised a return to some kind of normalcy.
Fremantle Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Sharron Booth’s The Silence of Water in 2022. Described by the City of Fremantle Hungerford Award judges as vivid and deeply researched, the historical novel was awarded the 2020 Edith Cowan University School of Arts and Humanities Research Medal, an honour given to the highest achieving student graduating from a research degree, masters or doctoral program.
Women of a Certain Rage is the book that happened when Liz Byrski asked 20 women to take up her challenge and write her a story about rage. The result is a book that Judith Lucy calls ‘compassionate, absorbing and thought-provoking’.
The new year is here and our authors are refreshed from their summer holidays and are raring to get out and meet you at events. Pop these dates in your diary and start your year off right.
In 2019, I had the chance to travel to Eungella National Park in Queensland to see wild platypus. I wasn’t planning to write an adventure novel starring a monotreme … And I wasn’t planning to spend a day battling mud and swollen rivers and carnivorous worms, either. But somehow, both of those things happened and Beneath the Trees was born.
We are delighted to share this blog post by the exceptionally talented debut author Josephine Taylor. Her novel, Eye of a Rook, was released this week and we know you’ll love it as much as we do. In this post aimed at aspiring writers, Josephine shares how to get the most out of mentorships and professional development.
Hot on the heels of releasing the book she co-wrote with Deborah Hunn, How to Be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia, Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter has launched a new podcast and Facebook group aimed at making the Australian publishing industry more accessible to new writers.
Welcome to our new podcast, How to Be an Author in Australia, co-hosted by marketing and communications manager Claire Miller and publisher Georgia Richter. With regular guest appearances by editor Armelle Davies as the Comma Chameleon, the How to Be an Author podcast is an informal series of chats between publishing industry professionals. Like Georgia’s new book she co-wrote with Deborah Hunn, How to Be an Author: The Business of Being a Writer in Australia, it’s all about giving writers tips and tools of the trade as they start their writing career.
Hello and welcome to December. In what’s been a tough year for so many, we are very happy to report some good news this month. Congratulations are in order for three wonderful Fremantle Press creators.