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Amazon love us! They really love us! So, it seems someone at Amazon has finally moved their coffee cup off their "Kindle shipping map" and realised that underneath it lay the little old land of New Zealand. "Oh crap, you guys. We forgot...
The Booker goes bonkers No, it doesn't really. I was just trying to get your attention. Mean Bookie! So, the 2010 Man Booker Prize longlist of 13 titles has been announced and the ... nominees... are (dundahdahDAH!): Peter...
Book Review: Cannibal Jack by Trevor Bentley Cannibal Jack : The Life & Times of Jacky Marmon, a Pakeha-Maori by Trevor Bentley, Penguin, RRP$40, ISBN 9780143203827, Available now. Ah, Penguin. It's a rollercoaster ride with you, isn't it?...
What's BookieMonster reading? Changeless by Gail Carriger Soulless, Changeless, Blameless... Meaningless. Aha! I slay me. :twisted: Changeless and Soulless have bounced around the interwebs for a while so I thought I'd dive in and have a read - Changeless...
In the Telegraph, Ian McEwan says Americans are ‘profoundly bored’ by climate change.
He added, with a laugh: “Or maybe it was no good, there was always that possibility.”
Yes, Mr McEwan there is always that possibility.
Okay, so maybe I should have called this Today’s narrow world of Snark… 
Entries Open for New Zealand’s Leading Short Story Awards
Etched into the New Zealand literary calendar, the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards have showcased some of New Zealand’s leading writers including Linda Olsson, Sarah Quigley, Norman Bilbrough, Andre Ngapo and Sarah Laing.
The 2010 awards welcome a new literary judging panel including award-winning authors Joy Cowley (Hunter, Mrs Wishy Washy, Snake & Lizard) and Charlotte Grimshaw (Singularity, Opportunity, Provocation) who will be selecting ten finalists from the entries.
The four categories include the Open Division (judged by Charlotte Grimshaw), Secondary School Division (judged by Joy Cowley), Best Unpublished Writer and the popular People’s Choice Awards.
The People’s Choice Award allows the public to read excerpts of the ten finalists’ stories and vote for their favourite short story online. The winner of this category is decided entirely by public vote and wins $750 cash, publication of their story in Sunday Star-Times and $250 worth of books from Random House.
Entries to the 2010 awards close 27 August 2010 with winners announced at an awards ceremony on 28 October 2010.
The Awards were launched in 1984 with a vision to recognise and encourage the talent of aspiring New Zealand writers and are now in their 26th year.
Last year, over 1400 entries to the awards were received. The supreme award for the Open Division went to Waimate writer Sue Francis for ‘The Concentrators’, a small town New Zealand story about an unlikely friendship between two young women who meet every Friday night over a game of tennis.
For more information about the 2010 awards visit www.shortstory.co.nz
Editors Notes:
Open Division
1st prize: $5000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $500 worth of books from Random House
2nd prize: $2000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $300 worth of books from Random House
3rd prize: $1000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times and $200 worth of books from Random House
Secondary School Division
1st prize: $1000 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times, work experience day at Random House (day immediately after awards ceremony) PLUS $500 worth of Random House books and a $500 Whitcoulls gift card for the finalist’s school.
2nd prize: $500 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times PLUS $300 worth of Random House books and a $300 Whitcoulls gift card for the finalist’s school
3rd prize: $250 cash, story published in the Sunday Star-Times PLUS $200 worth of Random House books and a $200 Whitcoulls gift card for the finalist’s school.
BEST UNPUBLISHED WRITER
A Random House experience with key members of the company, including time with fiction publisher Harriet Allan and $200 worth of books from Random House.
PEOPLES’ CHOICE AWARD
$750 cash, story published in Sunday Star-Times and $250 worth of books from Random House.
Category : Book Trade News, BookieMonster News, Fun Stuff
Author Beryl Bainbridge has died, aged 75. I have to confess I haven’t read enough of her prodigious output but what I have read has been most enjoyable, so I will be making the effort to seek out more titles. There’s an excellent Guardian.co.uk obituary here.
The shortlist for the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced! And it includes two New Zealand authors – Jane Higgins and Philippa Werry. Congratulations and best luck to them!
And a recommendation – Stella Matutina - an awesome book blog by Memory, who has recently moved to Auckland to live for a year. Not only do you get great book reviews but her pleasure at living in Auckland and her enthusiastic descriptions of the joys of our fair city are enough to bring a tear to the eye of the most hardened Auckland heart.
The lovely Black Sheep has created a great new social site for New Zealand and Australian book bloggers to connect – Books Down Under. Fantastic idea!
Okay peoples, I have decided to compile a list of book related peoples on Twitter. To make it a little easier to go through I’ve divided them into rough groups.
If you think I’ve left you off the list (woops, sorry) or you don’t want to be on the list (woops again) or you think I’ve put you in the wrong group (hey, I’m human you know) then please feel free to speak up! This is a totally moveable feast, as they say.
Publishing
@Auckland_UP
@FergusVUP
@VUPBooks
@RHNZ
@HarperNZ
@phantom_house
@PearsonNZ
@penguinbooksnz
@nztaylor
Writers
@EmilyJPerkins
@ElizabethKnoxNZ
@writehandedgirl
@rachaelking70
@discorobot
@EyelashYoung
@CherylBernstein
@chrisjtse
@hamish_keith
@modernletters
@TinaMakereti
@PipAdam
@hinemoana
@Aybrow
@Lee_Pletzers
@HelenRickerby
@NaliniSingh
@Helen__Heath
@FakeChadTaylor
@zenpeacekeeper
@timjonesbooks
@PCLittle
@AliceandRachel
@wendylnissen
@BrownSpeak
@NigelLatta
@kiwiwriters
@nickypellegrino
@impossiblecat
@rgoodchild
@samelworthy
@Artandmylife
@pjkmorris
@paul_shannon
@lytteltonian
@Craig_Cliff
@harrismint
@anna_caro_nz
@AdrienneRewi
@marydanae
@Vampyr14
@ChrisBellNZ
@MareeAnderson
@amandaashby
@sarahantz
@lemonemma
@harvestbird
@ehjc
@southernkbelz
@rabarts
@lynnejamneck
@rippatton
@gearsgeary
@peajayar
@FifiColston
@traviscottreau
@PhilippaJane
@catconnor
@jenlongshaw
@WieldingWords (also editing and proofreading)
@WritersBlockNZ
@gracebridges
@DavidSlack
Blogging and writing about books
@Jaffa12
@the1blacksheep
@catatonichic
@BeTheChangeBook
@ScoopBooks
@xicanti
@CatherineHaines
@nzdodo
@justaddbooks
@GuySomerset
@BookmanBeattie
@wellreadkitty
@bookTVnz
@BookieMonsterNZ – yep, that’s me.
Festivals/prizes/organisations
@BooksellersNZ
@lianzaoffice
@nzbookcouncil
@AklWritersFest
@NZBookMonth
Booksellers
@PageBlackmore
@BookaholicsNZ
@timeoutbooksnz
@MK1comics
@paperplusnz
@womensbookshop
@UnityBooks
Libraries
@tararualibrary
@Kingshighlib
@chblibraries
@wcl_library
@rodneylibraries
@kebabette
@Manukau_Libs
@NLNZ
@Massey_Uni_Lib
@Auckland_Libs
@kapiti_lib
@HDLibraries
@summerlandlibra
@citylibrary
@mtroskillib
@invlibrary
@UHLibrary
@OtagoLibrary
@rnzfblibrary
@dnlibraries
@LincolnULibrary
@lilac_library
@nzetc
Phew. There’s a lot of you, isn’t there?
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