Tag: Australia

• Whitewashing Book Covers, Actors Publishing Fiction, and more…

  

  Australian science fiction authors feel let down by local publishers (ABC News Australia) While the overall Australian publishing scene is robust, Australian science fiction writers believe their work is not being adequately supported by the industry. “It’s quite difficult to get a science fiction novel published by an Australian publisher,” says Cat Sparks, a publisher […]

  Berneta L. Haynes

  March 22, 2017

  News and Editorials

  Actors, Australia, Book Covers, Brexit, Featured, Fiction, POC, science fiction, Tom Hanks, Wesley Snipes, Whitewashing, Women

• A.C. Efverman, Author of Game

  

  Tell us something unique about you. I’m a Swedish author and I moved to Australia twenty years ago: as I never could stand the long, cold and dark winters in my home country. I now write a crime fiction series set in my adopted hometown Sydney – and I write my novels in both English […]

  Berneta L. Haynes

  January 18, 2017

  Author Interview

  Australia, Crime Fiction, Detective, Sweden, thriller

• ‘Woke’ Authors, Diversity in Children’s Books, and Changing IP Rules in Oz…

  Why ‘woke’ is no joke (Times Live) Black female authors are the next big thing in South African publishing, a development publisher says follows the “woke” trend. According to Jacana Media’s assistant publisher Sibongile Machika, both authors and readers are more “woke” – a colloquial term that refers to a state of social and political awareness used […]

  Berneta L. Haynes

  September 15, 2016

  News and Editorials

  Asia, Australia, Black Women Authors, Children’s Books, diversity, Featured, India, Intellectual Property, publishing