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8/16/2017

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recognises high achievement by an ALIA personal member in their first five years of practice. For more information, click here . FEATURE > Book-to-screen adaptations pitched at 2017 Books at MIFF ‘Most producers are after stories with great characters and plot lines but also low-budget settings … Crime is always of interest, but not as much this year. Many I spoke to wanted stories that would entertain the whole family—the Red Dog phenomenon. Luckily, it’s not all about Hollywood action movies.’ Read Fremantle Press CEO Jane Fraser’s report from the 2017 Books at MIFF event here . Book blogger spotlight: ReadLikeWildfire BookTuber Chami Rupasinghe experimented with different platforms before settling on YouTube. ‘Although YouTube does take quite a bit more effort to produce content for compared to other platforms like Twitter or Instagram, it’s where I can deliver the most about myself through my fashion, my personality and my video style,’ she says. Rupasinghe spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘Book blogger spotlight’ series. (more…) REVIEW > Bram Presser’s ‘The Book of Dirt’ ‘Three books in one, The Book of Dirt is a remarkable tale of Holocaust survival, love and genealogical sleuthing by a grandson intent on finding the truth about his grandparents’ past’ … read Scott Whitmont’s review here . NOTICES > Editors NSW: Editing in South Africa Research on editing in South Africa: where we are and where we are headed Our speaker for the evening will be Melanie Law, a South African PhD student who is currently enrolled for a cotutelle PhD in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, and North-West University, South Africa in which is is investigating the role of editorial intervention in processes of language variation and change. Melanie will discuss the scope and development of research on editing in South Africa. She will reflect on research trends in this area and some of the key challenges for editors and editing researchers. Throughout her talk she will highlight how the work done by IPEd and the Australian editors’ societies has informed research on editing in South Africa. Melanie is a lecturer in Language Practice at North-West University, where she teaches text editing, publishing and research modules to third-year and honours students.

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