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Live from the Happiness and Its Causes Conference – Day Two
Today Exisle’s Sales and Marketing Manager, Mark Robinson, guest blogs with an update from the Happiness and Its Causes Conference. Back for day two, after a very long and busy day yesterday that went past in a bit of a blur of non-stop activity all day. Though I was only able to catch brief snippets of the myriad presentations during the day the feedback from delegates was nothing but positive. I notice that 90 per cent of those … Read entire article »
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Live from the Happiness and Its Causes Conference
This week’s guest blogger is Exisle’s Sales and Marketing Manager, Mark Robinson. I am in Melbourne in winter, its raining on and off, with bursts of sunshine in between in that typical Melbourne fashion. The temperature is such that everyone is rugged up in overcoats and scarfs, yet there is an air of optimism and excitement, for a major conference has just begun – not just any conference but The Happiness and Its Causes Conference. The … Read entire article »
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Rugby and humour
This week’s guest blogger is author Graham Hutchins. Rugby provides fertile ground for amusement and anecdote. I first discovered this many years ago when I wrote a best-seller called New Zealand Rugby Yarns. This tongue-in-cheek collection proved that it is quite possible (and probably healthy) to be able to treat the game with reverence, yet keep things in perspective and see the funny side as well. True lovers of rugby are perfectly comfortable with this duality. … Read entire article »
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eBooks are e-volving
This week’s guest blogger is Carole Doesburg, Exisle’s Production Manager. eBooks are getting simpler and more beautiful every day. As you will be aware from media reports, digital technology is transforming the book publishing industry. It is an exciting time, and Exisle is embracing the challenge. We have an extensive eBook publishing program: all of our new releases are available in digital format, as well as many of our backlist titles. Exisle eBooks are available in a … Read entire article »
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The World’s Happiest Nation!
So I was just reading in the Sydney Morning Herald that Australia is the happiest nation in the world. I think most of us who live here and a lot of people who visit here would agree that we are indeed a nation of happiness — well, most of the time! There are some great things about living in this funny place: people are generally good natured and easy going; we happily ‘take the piss’ out … Read entire article »
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A VIP time at the Sydney Writers’ Festival
As part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Australia Council for the Arts invites a number of foreign publishers to attend. The main aim is for them to meet up with Australian publishers with a view to buying our titles for their publishing houses overseas. This year I met some delightful publishers from Brazil, the USA, Taiwan, Germany and Sweden. Most of the foreign publishers who are invited usually have a literary focus, which makes … Read entire article »
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Reality Me!
Confession time! I am totally addicted to The Voice and I am not ashamed to say it! Its fabulous, it’s fun, it’s hilarious … and I’m also loving all the ‘chatter’ that is happening everywhere about the program. Everyone is talking about it! That’s made me think about the power of song and the power of the underdog. I called my mum a few minutes ago and she said I had to be quick as … Read entire article »
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Can a Great Book make a Great Movie?
With the release of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby hitting our screens any day I have been reading so many reviews and speculation on the question of will the movie live up to the book. I have asked myself that question a million times over the years , and funnily enough often I will not see a movie as I did not want it to kill the beautiful experience of reading a magical book. Am … Read entire article »
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I just get so… angry!
This week’s guest blogger is Sandra Bowden, co-author of the new graphic book for teens I just get so…angry! – which is released today! When we started thinking about a possible second title for Exisle after I Just Want To Be…Me!, we knew it would be in the same graphic format and it would encompass the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. We just couldn’t decide what it would be about! The two main options were anger and … Read entire article »
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Greetings from the London Book Fair.
It has been sometime since I attended the London Book Fair the last being a fairly dismal affair where my stand was up in the rafters somewhere and the only passing traffic was the odd publisher that was lost! So I was hoping that this fair would be a little more exciting than that and happily I can report it was pretty fabulous! The venue is at Earls Court, an area I tried to avoid at … Read entire article »
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