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Deal news! OZ indie publishing's felt at a low ebb recently, thus super exciting to sell Alex Cothren's debut story collection, the marvellously inventive/hilarious (+devastating) "Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere", to Adelaide start-up Pink Shorts Press!

Literally spent years working with Alex to try & get his phenomenal story collection published: a happy agent day to see it formally announced in Books+Publishing! #agentlife

Oh isn’t that just gorgeous: a proof just in of Lucy Nelson’s stunning debut, her story collection Wait Here. Out in June from Summit Books / SimonSchusterANZ!

And it will look like this!

Hotel room preparations for the OzLit/NZLit blitzkrieg at #LBF25 tomorrow!

Such a thrill to have a “buzz” book at LBF! Some exciting news coming very soon… #AshtheNovel

Great news at Shaw Lit today!

So @ShawLiterary turns 5 today! Nothing's quite so satisfying as helping a book go out into the world, & I've been blessed to have been a reader of so much amazing work. Tx to all for making it so much fun: authors, publishers, lit citizens. Another 5 maybe?

And here it is: the brilliant OZ cover art for Louise Wallace's debut novel Ash! Out in September from Allen & Unwin, with UK & US release next year allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Lo…

Thrilled to share the cover of Alex Cothren's insanely good (I think I've read it 3x!) debut short story collection, #PlayingNiceWasGettingMeNowhere, coming from Pink Shorts Press in August! simonandschuster.com.au/books/Playing-…

A marvellous B&P advance review for Lucy Nelson's divine debut, her short story collection Wait Here: "...a striking reflection on women's lives in all their beautiful complexity". Out in June from Summit Books OZ!

How magnificent to see Rodney Hall's “expansive, generous, intelligent & utterly enthralling” Vortex up for Age Book of the Year! theage.com.au/culture/books/…

So so thrilled for Rodney Hall and his utterly deserved Age Book of the Year win with Vortex!! This was an utterly electrifying novel from an author who, even at age 89, remains absolutely at the height of his powers! theage.com.au/culture/books/…

Thrilled to announce that Italian rights to Pip Adam's brilliant Audition have sold to Cantoni Editore! They publish high-quality lit with covers designed in collaboration with emerging contemporary Italian visual artists #Audizione cantonieditore.it/contatti/

Thrilled to announce: Adam Ouston’s second novel, Mine, has been acquired by Barry Scott! An extraordinary novel, composed in a single sentence (a first in OzLit I think?) booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2025/…

Lucy Nelson’s “striking short fiction collection” is book of the week in the Age/SMH this week! theage.com.au/culture/books/…

“Nelson’s book offers a plea to stop judging women on how they live their lives, that no single choice makes one woman better than another” artshub.com.au/news/reviews/b…

Lovely consideration by Joanne Anderton of the "beautiful and devastating, heartbreaking and life affirming" Salvage by jennifer mills, via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/escape-to-spac…

So delighted by yet another rapturous review: "I read Lucy Nelson’s debut in the course of a single mesmerised sitting...Probing and gorgeously realised, Wait Here marks the arrival of a luminous new talent." abc.net.au/news/2025-06-2…

Over at Literary Hub: “Other, Better Worlds: @pipadam on the Possibilities of Politically Engaged Speculative Fiction. Danielle Dutton In Conversation With the Author of “Audition” lithub.com/other-better-w…