Alice Grundy

Selling Tales, Telling Sales

Fiction is big business. In her review of Dan Sinykin’s study of American publishing, Alice Grundy shows the importance of the demythologising effects of Sinykin’s institutionalist approach for both literary scholarship and industrial relations.

Blue Pencils and Red Pens

Each of the editors in Literary Lion Tamers was successful in large part because of their ability to persuade authors to be published by them and, then to convince readers to buy their books.

The Crystal Mirror or the Book That Wasn’t

The archive shows that Anderson enjoyed both very limited editorial intervention into Tirra Lirra by the River and suffered from the over-reach of her publisher. In each case the manuscripts and letters reveal comments made by reviewers and critic...

Three easy steps to understanding Chinese literature

Editor’s Cut: Notes on the Chinese publishing industry

China and Australia are roughly the same size, but with nearly 100 times our population, distribution of books in China is made easier by the simple fact of greater population density. In poor and rural areas, there can be difficulty reaching cust...

11 July 2014

Nimble innovators

The recent sprouting of literary journals in Australia is proof of the scene’s fecundity. The past five years have witnessed the birth of Kill Your Darlings, Archer, Contrappasso, Higher Arc, Cuttings, Tincture, The Canary Press, Stilts, The Revie...