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Karen Comer wins at the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards!
Karen Comer’s debut middle-grade verse novel, Sunshine on Vinegar Street (Allen & Unwin) has won the $15,000 Children’s Book Award at the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards!
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'Venetian Lessons in Love' by Jenna Lo Bianco
An appassionata enemies-to-lovers Venetian romp by bestselling Italian-Australian author Jenna Lo Bianco.
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'This Stays Between Us' by Margot McGovern
Margot McGovern’s homage to 90s horror films and final girls will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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UQP sells Sandy Bigna’s 'Little Bones' debut to Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers in the US
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Sandy Bigna’s debut middle-grade verse novel, Little Bones, to Krista Vitola, executive editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers in the US, in a deal brokered by UQP rights and contracts manager Erin Sandiford.
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'The Italian Marriage' Swedish Rights sold!
Nerrilee Weir of the Bold Type Agency, has sold Swedish rights to The Italian Marriage by Jenna Lo Bianco (Pan Macmillan Australia) to publisher Modernista, on behalf of Jacinta di Mase Management.
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Jane Harrison longlisted in the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize
We are thrilled and delighted to learn that Jane Harrison’s remarkable debut novel The Visitors has been longlisted in the ARA Historical Novel Prize!
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JdM Creators Win & Honoured in The Children's Book Council of Australia Awards, 2024!
Jacinta di Mase Management has had a stellar showing at The Children’s Book Council of Australia 2024 Book of the Year Awards! Karen Comer’s Grace Notes has won in the Older Readers category, and Gymnastica Fantastica! by Briony Stewart has won in the Early Childhood category! While Jess Racklyeft’s Australia: Country of Colour has both recognised as an Honour Book in the non-fiction Eve Pownall Awards, and selected by young voters in the Shadow Judging as their winner for the Eve Pownall Award!
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JdM creators on 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlist!
We are so excited to discover three JdM titles on the shortlist for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards!
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Biffy James shortlisted in the South Australian Literary Awards!
HUGE congratulations to Biffy James, whose indomitable Completely normal (and other lies) has picked up ANOTHER shortlisting! This time from the South Australian Literary Awards!
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Akhurst & Comer Queensland Literary Awards finalists!
The Queensland Literary Awards showcase outstanding authors from across Australia, celebrating emerging and established authors across a range of genres, and this year Graham Akhurst and Karen Comer have been recognised for their wonderful youth literature book contributions.
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'Last Shot' (Blood Wine Dynasty book 1) by Emma Pignatiello
Perfect for fans of Lucy Score, Devney Perry and Catherine Cowles, Last Shot is a gripping enemies-to-lovers romantic suspense that is guaranteed to get your heart racing.
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'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy (And Some Things You Didn't)' by Briony Stewart
Every single minute, of every single day, a child somewhere loses a baby tooth. Find out what happens to all those teeth in this informative and fully illustrated guide to that mysterious creature, the tooth fairy.
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Scott Woodard YA debut acquired by Hachette!
Danielle Binks has sold World Rights to Hachette Australia, for Scott Woodard’s debut contemporary Young Adult novel, Poster Boys.
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Graham Akhurst 2024 National NAIDOC Week Award Finalist
We at JdM are thrilled and delighted to announce that author Graham Akhurst has been recognised as a 2024 National NAIDOC Week, ‘Creative Talent Award Finalist’!
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'Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America' by Yves Rees
A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarkable. Throwing convention to the wind, they headed across the Pacific to make their fortune. In doing so, they reoriented Australia towards the United States years before politicians began to lumber down the same path.
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