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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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Gallipoli: A ridge too far
This week’s guest blogger is Emma Campbell of the Australian War Memorial, talking about the new release Gallipoli: A ridge too far. The story of the landings on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 is a familiar one to Australians, commemorated each year on the anniversary and revered as a nation-building event. Yet much of the Gallipoli campaign – and in particular the major battles that took place in August – is not understood. In a new … Read entire article »
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Christmas in April!
This week’s guest blogger is Anouska Jones, Exisle’s publisher. I’m sure you’ve heard of ‘Christmas in July’ celebrations but ‘Christmas in April’ probably has you confused. Well, welcome to the crazy world of publishing schedules! For you, the silly season might be far away, but for me it seems all too scarily close. Right now, I’m working on eight books — the titles that Exisle will be releasing in the months running up to Christmas. Over the … Read entire article »
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The joy of creative discovery
This week’s guest blogger is Lilian Wissink, author of our latest release The Creative SEED. When I was a child, I loved playing dress-ups, making mud pies, drawing and colouring-in. I’d run around the garden with the neighbourhood kids playing imaginative games, climbing trees, riding bikes and dreaming up plays on a make-shift stage. When I started secondary school, life became more serious. I didn’t know what I wanted to be when “I grew up” and I … Read entire article »
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Goodbye Exisle – Guest blogger Carlie Harris
This week’s guest blogger is Carlie Harris, Exisle Publishing’s Publicist. Tomorrow is my last day at Exisle Publishing. As Publicist for the company for the past 2 and half years, it’s going to be a very sad day. And I guess when you reach the end, you think about the beginning where it all started. It was exactly one week after I’d finished my university degree that I got the call to go for an interview … Read entire article »
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Multi-Channel — today’s way!
This week’s guest blogger is Exisle Publishing’s Sales and Marketing Manager Mark Robinson. Exisle is well and truly a multi-channel business, we have traditional bricks and mortar bookshops selling our books, we have online book sellers selling them, we have specialist businesses like pharmacies and health food stores that sell our books, we have customers that purchase online directly from us, we have institutions and wholesale customers that buy directly, we operate directly in two … Read entire article »
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A New Dawn
The Husband was up early this morning as he had a 7 a.m. flight to Auckland. I was very happy to stay snuggled in bed as I had had a few glasses of French rosé down at the Opera House last night. I caught up with an old publishing colleague from the US and it was great to just sit around and talk about business, the highs and lows of what’s happening in publishing (the … Read entire article »
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