International sales on the rise
In 2009 Fremantle Press had one of its most successful years on record for titles sold into foreign territories.
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INTERVIEW: Kate McCaffrey YA Novelist
Best selling young adult novelist Kate McCaffrey won over readers with her cyber bullying novel Destroying Avalon before reaching the North American market with her hard hitting second novel In Ecstasy. In Beautiful Monster she’s writing about eating disorders. Kate tells us why.
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INTERVIEW: Ken Spillman and Jake
With foreign rights sales to Hachette in France and Scholastic in India, the popular Jake series is on the cusp of going global.
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Newman wins industry award
Fremantle Press stalwart Clive Newman was recognised for his service to the publishing industry with a George Robertson Award in April.
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INTERVIEW: Lekkie Hopkins and Lynn Roarty
ALP Senator and women’s campaigner Pat Giles’ favourite saying was ‘give a woman an inch and she’ll park a car in it’. It’s a saying her biographers Lekkie Hopkins and Lynn Roarty have taken to heart. In this interview they discuss their relationship with Pat and the writing of their new book Among the Chosen.
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Brian Simmonds short listed for CBCA Crichton award
Fremantle Press illustrator Brian Simmonds has been short listed for a Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Crichton Award for Lighthouse Girl.
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INTERVIEW: Scott-Patrick Mitchell
How does it feel to be included in an anthology alongside David Malouf and Dorothy Porter
Amazing. At the outset I never realised that the anthology would include such great writers. When I look at the final product, I’m a little overwhelmed at being included alongside people I not only respect but immensely admire (particularly Dorothy Porter).
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Michael Thompson
How far back does your interest in picture books stretch?
I went to an exhibition of artwork from a picture book when I was in Year 2 at primary school. I loved seeing all of the artwork displayed. We spent a lot of time that year making our own picture books: planning them on huge sheets of butcher’s paper, cutting paper for the pages and binding them together with wool when we had finished. I have collected picture books for years now, especially when I love the artwork.
‘Boy’ long listed for the Miles Franklin
Boy on a Wire by Jon Doust has been long listed for a 2010 Miles Franklin Award.
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Poets out of the box
Fremantle Press poet, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, and editor, Wendy Jenkins, have both been included alongside literary greats David Malouf and Dorothy Porter in a new poetry anthology called Out of the Box.
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