Today we are exactly one month away from the launch of Breaking Beauty and we’re celebrating by sharing another quote from the collection. Continue reading One month to go!
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Teaser Quotes for Breaking Beauty
The countdown to the launch of Breaking Beauty has begun! To give you a taste of the beautiful stories to come, we have created a small sample per week to be posted on our Facebook page until the big day on Friday 7 November. Don’t forget to book your spot at the Adelaide party: anna@midnightsunpublishing.com Continue reading Teaser Quotes for Breaking Beauty
Revealing the cover of Breaking Beauty
Lynette Washington has expertly edited the project and now we can look forward to the fabulous Adelaide launch of this brilliant collection. It’ll all be happening at the SA Writers’ Centre from 6.30pm on Friday 7 November 2014. Hope to see you there!
Proudly presents… Amanda Hickie!
One Step at a Time
One Step at a Time is a story about a boy, a baby elephant and a landmine.
by Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich
32 pages |300 x 250 hardback | ISBN 978-0-9873809-5-1 | $ 27.99
| Fiction | MidnightSun Publishing | March 2015
One Step at a Time is an exquisite picture book which tells the touching story about the relationship between a young boy, Luk, and his elephant, Mali. One day on the border of Continue reading One Step at a Time
Introducing Rock Star
To celebrate this momentous occasion, we asked Kristin to answer a few questions Continue reading Introducing Rock Star
One Step at a Time — it’s Pozible!
Kristin Weidenbach
Kristin Weidenbach writes popular non-fiction focused on Australian history. She is the author of the picture book Meet Banjo Paterson and Tom the Outback Mailman, which is a picture book for junior primary readers based on her Australian bestseller, Mailman of the Birdsville Track: the Story of Tom Kruse.
She is the author of Rock Star: the Story of Reg Sprigg and King of the Outback and has also written for Outback magazine and Australian Geographic.
Kristin is a PhD immunologist who specialised Continue reading Kristin Weidenbach
Rock Star: The story of Reg Sprigg — an outback legend
Oil; uranium; geology; conservation; these are the catch-cries of our times and Reg Sprigg embodies them all. Reg is regarded as the greatest geologist of his generation and one of the best Australia has produced.
By the age of 30 he had discovered the oldest fossils in the world and some of its deepest under-sea canyons. He had worked at Australia’s first two Continue reading Rock Star: The story of Reg Sprigg — an outback legend
What will 2014 bring?
MidnightSun has been very busy behind the scenes lately, planning this year and beyond. Although we are currently snowed under with interesting manuscripts and in the process of reading them all, we have decided on a couple of projects for this year.
We are going to step into children’s book publishing for the first time with Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich’s beautiful One Step at a Time about the relationship between a young boy and his elephant. This bright and moving picture book will be a gorgeous present for all the little ones.
We are also delighted to announce Continue reading What will 2014 bring?
2012/13 Appearances
If you are interested in catching up with our authors Amanda Hickie, Jane Jolly, Sally Heinrich, Kim Lock, Lynette Washington, Anna Solding, Zanesh Catkin or Kristin Weidenbach this is where you can find them:
Where we were in 2013 Continue reading 2012/13 Appearances
Announcing the BIG news!
The shortlist for the Most Underrated Book Award has just been announced and Anna Solding’s The Hum of Concrete is on it! This is such an amazing initiative by the Small Press Network, which gives the shortlisted entries new exposure. MidnightSun is so proud of Anna and honoured to be selected alongside other excellent small publishers. The other three shortlisted entries are: Fish-Hair Woman, Merlinda Bobis (Spinifex Press), Staunch, Ginger Briggs (Affirm Press) and Whiskey Charlie Foxtrot, Annabel Smith (Fremantle Press). We wish them all the best. The winner will be announced at a presentation on Friday 15 November at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. Read more about the shortlist here.
Catching up…
Although it may look like we haven’t done much the last few months, MidnightSun has actually been hard at work behind the scenes reading manuscripts and deciding on what to publish next year. We have submitted The Hum of Concrete to the Most Underrated Book Award. Both Kim and Anna have had speaking engagements. We have sponsored the Langhorne Creek Writers’ Festival. More about all of these exciting news in due course…
What is happening right now is this: Anna Solding is currently in Sydney and will head to Canberra tomorrow to participate in two events. One is organised by the ACT Writers’ Centre and one by Small Press Network, and both are facilitated by brilliant Charlotte Harper at Editia. The events take place at Gorman House, Wednesday 23 October, at 6pm and 7 for 7.30pm respectively. If you happen to be in Canberra, please come along and say hello.
Darwin Publicity Tour
On Friday 10 May 2013, Kim Lock and Anna Solding flew to Darwin for a whirlwind promotional tour of Kim’s book Peace, Love and Khaki Socks, with a launch in the city library, morning tea at the Childbirth Education Association and a Mother’s Day reading at the NT Writers’ Centre. Here is the trip in pictures: Continue reading Darwin Publicity Tour
Book signing at Dillons Bookshop
The weather gods indulged us for this book signing, so being outside chatting with people was a real pleasure. Kim, true to form, was all smiles. And after seeing the book both on the counter and in the new releases section, who could blame her?
