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Volkano’s Wife

Amalia marries Cecil in 1933 after a lightning five-day shipboard courtship. She is catapulted from sleepy Lismore in Australia to the wild heart of Papua New Guinea, walking the trail with convicted murderers to her first home, Kokoda, where she erected its first Australian flag. Amalia and Cecil raised their two children in a land of serenity and great beauty, and came to love the people they lived amongst. This is Amalia’s story. A remote station, Higaturu, is Paradise to Cecil, District Commissioner. But Paradise becomes an [read more...]

Faraway Places

It's raining, and Alice cannot go outside. So snuggling back down under her covers and closing her eyes, she takes herself on a journey to faraway places full of magic and fun. From underwater gardens, sparkling jellyfish, forest fairies and talking clouds, this whimsical tale shows us that when we use our imagination, anything is possible.

Absence of Manners

In the kaleidoscopic society of early white settlement in Australia, the sensuously beautiful daughter of the clerk of the local court, a free settler, Emily Walters becomes intimately involved with an escaping convict. Now on her eighteenth birthday, Emily believes she is a ruined woman. Guilt and shame lead her to embark on a life of service and caring for others. Meanwhile the wrongfully convicted escapee is compelled to clear his name for himself, for his family and for Emily. Can life be reborn and love renewed? This debut [read more...]

Light’s Shadow

Taras Kovic, the richest man to have ever lived, has only one dream. Taras dreams of the future. When Ares Belle's husband goes missing after a night of drinking she returns home to find her house ransacked. Delinquent teen Riley Marclund, directionless and naïve, finds himself infatuated with a feisty girl who has an aversion to technology. The beautiful and dangerous Detective Carlisle enlists the help of Doctor Willem Stockhold to piece together a trail of gruesome murders. Lee Goku, a manipulative and cunning politician is fed [read more...]

Attention all Spiritual and Intuitive people

If you're interested in intuitive healing and The Secret energy of your body, the energy that regulates the condition of your health, quality of your relationships and your ability to attract wealth and abundance. Then please come along to the book launch by Canberrian author Dr Irina Webster, who is an intuitive healer, medical doctor and international best selling author. Irina will be launching her new book “The Secret energy of your body: An Intuitive Guide to Healing Health and Wellness.” in which she reveals 7 steps to [read more...]

Attention authors. Send your book to The Beijing book fair 2015.

Although August may seem a long way away, now is the time to plan for your book to be displayed, 27 to 31st August. China is a massively growing book market, the most rapid in the world. Also the Chinese are interested in all things Western and are learning English at an astonishing rate. It has never been more important to get your book exposed to this growing market. The kinds of books they are interested in are: Children's books, especially series of books Any book on learning English Fiction books, but not political, [read more...]

Here are 3 points authors should know and why it is imperative to have an eBook

Big publishers do look on-line and at book fairs for books that are selling, especially books and authors that have a presence in the market place: and authors who have actually put in some effort. This article explains what is now happening in the book industry. Publicity and marketing Social media platforms have emerged as the digital equivalents of “word of mouth,” which is still one of the most effective ways of marketing books. The social web complements conventional publicity and marketing mechanisms, helping to coordinate [read more...]

Less competition from the big guys on Amazon

HarperCollins is one of the largest publishers in the world and they might soon be pulling all of their e-books and print titles from Amazon. The contract between these two companies is set to expire soon and HC is refusing to sign the new deal. The contract presented to HarperCollins was the same contract recently signed by Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan, Amazon confirmed. It is very risky to not sign a new deal with Amazon, since the Seattle company controls 75% of the digital book market in North America and 95% of [read more...]

China is starting to be recognised as a major book buying country

Doubly interesting as China is starting to be recognised as a major book buying country. At ASPG we have been saying this for the last 4 years, and is the reason we have a stand at the Beijing Book fair, and the only Australian company to do this. With Nielsen's bookdata using Openbook makes our job a bit easier, and heaps more opportunity for our authors. "A new agreement between Nielsen and Openbook aims to bring the portraits of global book markets into sharper focus. Openbook, a leading book sales tracking service in China, [read more...]

Tales of a Hard Rock Miner

This is a collection of stories about my time in the mining industry. Starting with my happy childhood growing up in Newcastle, as a boy worked on a horse-drawn milk-cart run, spent some time as office boy in a Newcastle Department Store when finished school. Then starting work in a coal mine, during the last days of using horse- drawn skips. After national conscription, going to Mt Isa working as a contract miner, living and working through the Mt Isa strikes; becoming a foreman; sinking a large shaft, the K57. In a break [read more...]