IP to attend the upcoming Australia-China Publishing Forum 2014!

IP is one of only 5 publishers invited to attend the Australia-China Publishing Forum in mid-March 2014!  – who said the start of the year would be boring?

We are excitedly preparing pitches for Chinese publishing houses regarding prospective sales and rights deals and looking forward to brushing shoulders with our colleagues at with Penguin Random and New Frontier Publishing, who will be attending with us.

With a heavy focus on digital publishing, our team is keen to promote such titles as I Love You, Book, Even Grimmer Tales, No Matter Who We're With, and The Smallest Carbon Footprint (in ebook format, as well as physical formats). Though still awaiting advice on which publishers and agents we'll be matched with for the Chinese market, thanks to our wonderful and hard working authors, we'll have a well stocked list to show off!

As David prepares to travel to Beijing in mid March, he is thrilled to be arriving a few days early to meet in Hefei with China's largest publishing house, Time Publishing. Eager to learn more about the Chinese market, David is looking forward to a tour of Times headquarters and meeting with publishers of their various imprints. A meeting with the Australian Ambassador is also being planned.

While we send him off on these sorties, keep the excellent work coming in!

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Shadows in Paradise interviewed by Redland Times

"Redland Bay's Carolann Dowding has written a detailed account of her search through adoption secrecy and bureaucracy for her biological family."

Carolann Dowding, author of Shadows in Paradise, recently starred in a feature article by Lyn Uhlmann in the Southern Bay News (syndicated through the Redland Times / Bayside Bulletin).

Go Carolann!

Read the full article here.

Shadows in Paradise by Carolann Dowding

Shadows in Paradise details Carolann's 20-year search for her biological family. Although she loved her adoptive family and had a happy upbringing, she always felt like something was missing. She needed to know the truth.

She persevered through red tape to find her biological mother and then, with the help of a private investigator, followed the clues leading to her biological father. Carolann's story is one of hope and never giving up.

Media attention for two wave-making books: magical realism novel and child abuse legal battle memoir

Blood by Peter Kay

Blood was recently featured in The Mercury Saturday Magazine. Blood, written by Tasmanian local Peter Kay, is a magical realism novel involving time travel, romance, adventure, and the WWII bombing of Darwin.

Blood has also been featured in The Sunday Tasmanian, The Saturday Tasmanian, CQU News and the University of Canberra Monitor.

Sexual Abuse Survivor's Handbook by John Saunders

Sexual Abuse Survivor's Handbook by John Saunders has also been making waves. Read the feature article in the Northern Star here.

Sexual Abuse Survivor's Handbook has previously been mentioned in NSW Parliament, featured in interviews on ABC Radio, and has been the star of several public forums for child abuse survivors.

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