Christmas Ideas from Tauranga Writers for Children
Jill Marshall Sets up Pear Jam Books Publishing Company.
New Service for Authors Seeking to Self-Publish E-Books.
Ruth and John McIntyre Win Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award.
Kiwi Authors make IBBY’s 2012 Honour List.
Dame Christine Cole Catley Dies.
Sherryl Jordan a Winner!
Pat Osman Retires.

Christmas Ideas from Tauranga Writers for Children

09 November 2011.

Christmas stockings - stuck for ideas?

Here’s a Special Offer of fun stories for primary aged children, collections written by Tauranga Writers for Children.

They are a winner @ $12 per copy, or $10 a copy for multiple orders, p&p included. (Professionally produced; with soft laminated covers for durability.)

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Jill Marshall Sets up Pear Jam Books Publishing Company.

08 November 2011.

Pear Jam Books is a new publishing company created by author and manuscript assessor, Jill Marshall. While Pear Jam Books came about rather suddenly, to publish the Christchurch fundraiser Curly From Shirley, the Christchurch Dog, Jill has been thinking about this company for a long time.

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New Service for Authors Seeking to Self-Publish E-Books.

08 October 2011.

The Perseus Books Group has created a distribution and marketing service that will allow authors to self-publish their own e-books, the company said on Sunday. The new service will give authors an alternative to other self-publishing services and a favorable revenue split that is unusual in the industry: 70 percent to the author and 30 percent to the distributor.

Ruth and John McIntyre Win Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award.

07 October 2011.

The Wellington children’s booksellers, commentators and judges Ruth and John McIntyre have won the Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award, given for outstanding long-term service to the genre of books for children and young adults.

Kiwi Authors make IBBY’s 2012 Honour List.

06 October 2011.

Three books by leading New Zealand writers and illustrators have been chosen for inclusion in the 2012 Honour List published by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). They are, for writing, The Travelling Restaurant by Wellington author Barbara Else, and for illustration, The Moon & Farmer McPhee illustrated by Dunedin artist David Elliot, with text by Margaret Mahy. For translation, the selected book is Hu-Hu Koroheke, the translation into te reo Maori by the late Dame Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira of the award-winning picture book Old Hu-Hu by Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Rachel Driscoll.

Dame Christine Cole Catley Dies.

21 August 2011.

A woman of words, respected publisher, writer and journalist Dame Christine Cole Catley, has died, but not before making one last deadline.

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Sherryl Jordan a Winner!

19 May 2011.

Bookrapt is delighted to announce that one of our long standing members, Sherryl Jordan, has won the Junior Fiction Category Award in the 2011 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards with her delightful children's story Finnigan & the Pirates.

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Pat Osman Retires.

10 May 2011.

Long time Bookrapt member, and eternal organiser of the venue for Bookrapt's Annual Seminar, Pat Osman has retired. Pat finished work as the Head Librarian at Tauranga Intermediate School on May 6, 2001, after 27 years, 10 months, and 13 days of service. Bookrapt wishes Pat all the best in her retirement, and on her 101 day world cruise!

Read a tribute to Pat that appeared in the TIS Online publication, and view photos from Bookrapt's Farewell Lunch to Pat held recently at the Sebel Trinity in Tauranga.

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