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Marketing freebies: do they work? Kirsty Wilson, Text’s sales and marketing director, considers the effectiveness of giving away condoms to promote a new book.
Michelle Miller’s debut novel The Underwriting takes you behind closed doors into a world of sex scandals, power plays and shady trading. It’s a dangerous and thrilling place where The Social Network meets The Wolf of Wall Street.
More wonderful prize news: congratulations to Mark Henshaw, 2015 winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for The Snow Kimono.
Congratulations to Craig Sherborne, shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Tree Palace.
We’re very lucky and excited to have prolific German screenwriter—and now novelist—Sascha Arango in Australia in the coming weeks for the Australian release of his debut novel, The Truth and Other Lies.
Jane Novak is publicity manager at Text. Mostly she works behind the scenes, but you may have the pleasure to meet her while queueing at a book signing.
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We’re thrilled that Laurie Halse Anderson is down under as a guest of the Auckland and Sydney Writers Festivals, and the State Library of Victoria’s Reading Matters Youth Literature Conference.
Léa Antigny discovers her skills in juggling and iCal and juggling her iCal as a publicist for Text.
‘So, you’re a "yes" girl?’
‘So, you’re like Samantha Jones?’
‘Oh, cool.
