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“We are sorry to inform you that we are unable right now to pay your invoice due to the recent insolvency of Schnellübersetzer GmbH…” - a company I used to do a lot of work for over the years bites the dust… #AI #xl8

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An Ockhams fiction shortlist of only 4 titles? Curious… newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/05/n...

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Agent copy in of @minon.bsky.social’s First Name Second Name! And I agree with @lechblaine.bsky.social here: “exhilaratingly brilliant” it verily is!

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[email protected]: "Many Australians, too, and especially the Australian government, perhaps never thought that the US would become not just unreliable, but a nation that we might actually need some protection from..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The rarish Kafka edition I ordered online recently is - not inappropriately! - now apparently "verschollen" #TheBookThatDisappeared

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No Aussies, but a Kiwi at least longlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social (the curse as ever of having to be published in the UK to qualify: typically fiendishly difficult to achieve, as every Antipodean literary agent will attest) womensprize.com/prizes/women...

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A "real deal waka"! This is a glorious doco on a just-announced amazing archeological discovery on Rēkohu / the Chatham Islands www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cnt...

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SALVAGE has a beautiful cover it's getting REAL ✨🌏🪂 Open for pre-orders now jennifermills.net.au/salvage/ Coming May 27

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Really pleased and kind of nervous to announce that my debut poetry book, 'Lithosphere', will be published later this year with @puncherwattmann.bsky.social. Hopefully the small number of people who read it will also enjoy some bits of it.

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I'm at Houston Public Library. Everywhere I go public libraries are doing an enormous amount of heavy lifting in the most compassionate and non-judgey ways. The best sound in a public library in my opinion is snoring. It's cool and dry and safe in here.

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Also a happy publication day to @minon.bsky.social! It's funny, when he first submitted to me I thought it was just too polished a submission: sth must be wrong! Instead it turned out he'd simply written a quite brilliant debut (out now via UQP)! www.uqp.com.au/books/first-...

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Happy publication day to Yumna Kassab for her fourth novel, The Theory of Everything, via Ultimo Press ultimopress.com.au/collections/...

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Hello! Good morning to literature-lovers worldwide! We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with the University of Rochester, and we welcome @openletterbooks.bsky.social as the newest member of the Deep Vellum family. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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English publishers are so lovely... (no shade on OZ ones...just saying!) #amsubmitting #agentlife

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Is it very cold in here or is that just me

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Stock update from Nicholas Turner. I spent years of my life as a bookseller dealing with books sold on consignment - sometimes a headache, but the ones who were unfailingly polite - plus had a little jewel on their hands! - were always a real satisfaction

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Poster on the street, Leipzig

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OMG, I spy the cover for @jennifermills.net.au's amazing new novel Salvage – just up on the Picador site! www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781761563775/

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Lovely @readingsbooks.bsky.social notice (by head buyer Alison Huber) for @madeleinewatts.bsky.social's Elegy Southwest: "...sad and funny, grand and intimate, informed and inquisitive, and above all, a beautiful piece of writing." www.readings.com.au/product/9781...

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Love the @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social, & so happy they’re stocking Nicholas’ amazing novel…

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Went to Hanging Rock of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK fame, driven there by the very kind translator Lilit Thwaites and her husband Tim 🙏🏼✨ I also saw kangaroos and an Australian porcupine (forgot name). Fun day!

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A divine essay this on the life & work of wonderful Helen: don’t miss it! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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Release day today of @TheChills.bsky.social’s final chapter: “‘Spring Board’ is alarming, personal, brittle and at times hopelessly upbeat. This is a man casting his mind back on an esoteric career that led to nothing short of cult status…” thechillsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spring...

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"However, coming off a week of tedious & unproductive discourse..., & last night’s in-person “impromptu” event, the gulf between the abstracted, digital literoscape (our turn for the clunky portmanteau) & what happens when people get together in rooms, couldn’t be starker"

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"Yap!: A Short History of Small Dogs" – yeah, I think I'd have fallen for this proposal on the title alone too... www.thebookseller.com/rights/grant...

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Not much writing done yesterday.

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'We are not going back to the margins'. Incredible speech from Spanish senator Carla Antonelli opposing attempts by the far-right to roll back trans rights. More of this please. www.instagram.com/the.gaily.gr...

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Incl. Martin Phillipps' winklepicker boots... www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

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In comments to @nickfeik.bsky.social 's piece: "I'm struck by a silence. I'm still waiting to hear the voices of the cultural institutions, the major performing arts companies to stand up to what has been an attack on cultural expression & artistic freedom" nickfeik.substack.com/p/no-apology...

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Bless the ABR. In this month's issue, they manage to review five novels - only one of which is by an Australian author... www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

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Salvage ARCs arrived today! Never gets old seeing it in print for the first time. Can’t wait to share this with you all ✨💙✨

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@nickfeik.bsky.social on the "total, unmitigated cock up" of the Sabsabi affair. "Can Creative OZ explain how any artist is able to make any work that could avoid being misread by bad-faith actors in 15 years' time?" nickfeik.substack.com/p/no-apology...

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It's almost impossible to see how the reputation of this organisation can recover under the present chief executive and chair. Do us all a favour, gentlemen. New:

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Oh I adore these guys! More gorgeous dream pop from NZ's Womb, ahead of their album launch this month www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvYn...

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Well @readingsbooks.bsky.social is calling it: "Lyrical, vulnerable, existential and often extremely funny, @minon.bsky.social's "First Name Second Name" heralds the arrival of a powerful new voice in Australian literature". Amen to that! www.readings.com.au/reviews/firs...

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The Chills 'Spring Board' album is out tomorrow, February 28th. During the making of the film 'The Chills: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps', Martin found a stash of old tapes, and some of the songs on these were revisited and recorded. #thechills www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/mar...

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“The leadership and board should know better than most that culture wars don’t end with one scalp” - Jess Scully at @kydmagazine.bsky.social www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/who-...

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So on-point @vincenzo.bsky.social’s cutting Berlin novel, Perfection

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This is wonderful news - the @dlamarbach.bsky.social has acquired the ms of Kafka’s “Brief an den Vater” www.dla-marbach.de/presse/press...

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I don’t know how you could “damage the reputation of Creative Australia & the credibility of the work it did” more. Resign, chaps… www.theage.com.au/culture/art-...

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For the first time ever, travelling home with a dedicated book bag (& busting the luggage limit by an impressive 7 kg as a result!) #thebooksdeskdownunder #thanksforhavingme

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For the first time ever, travelling home with a dedicated book bag (& busting the luggage limit by an impressive 7 kg as a result!) #thebooksdeskdownunder #thanksforhavingme

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