Another great review for Mole Hunt -- this one from Frances Atkinson as Pick of the Week in The Sunday Age.
It's been a busy couple of years. In my role as publisher at Ford Street Publishing, I've published around sixteen books -- everything from picture books through to young adult books.
The Glasshouse was chosen by IBBY as an Outstanding Book and was short-listed for the Crichton Award. It's had some stunning reviews. My latest book is Mole Hunt, which at present is being critically acclaimed. Check out the new trailer for it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S-eKDYqpEs
Other Ford Street titles that I've published have been short-listed for the Victorian and NSW Premiers' awards; the Northern Territory Read Award; Chronos Award (winner!); The Wilderness Award and others. German and French rights have been sold to a few books, and as I type this, there's a lot of interest from a French publisher for Mole Hunt.
You can keep up with all that's happening with Ford Street Publishing by joining us on Facebook and Twitter. You'll see the icons on the homepage at: www.fordstreetpublishing.com.
In the meantime, I've started up a speakers' agency called Creative Net. Librarians and festival organisers can select authors and illustrators from over 50 presenters. Creative Net can be found at www.fordstreetpublishing.com/cnet. I don't charge for this service!
I've been giving workshops in quite a few schools and libraries. This side of my life seems to be getting busier. It's great getting Out There and meeting my audience.
The best news of all is that on June 10 the Australian SF Foundation awarded me the A Bertram Chandler Award for Outstanding Achievement in Australian science fiction.
The Slightly Skewed Life of Toby Chrysler is Paul's latest book from Celapene Press. See the video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lclytl3DB-4 and read a review at: http://thereadingstack.blogspot.com/
The book has received a 4-Star review in Bookseller and Publisher. It can be purchased from all good bookshops or direct from the publisher at http://www.celapenepress.com.au/
"Non-stop action plus outrageous adventure. Toby Chrysler delivers." David Metzenthen
The Slightly Skewed Life of Toby Chrysler, is now out:
INTERVIEWS:
Interviewed by Tehani Wessely as part of a spec fic snapshot:
http://editormum.livejournal.com/223608.html
Paul on The Stuff of Legends: writing for fantasy adventure.
http://www.kidslife.com.au/Page.aspx?ID=2429
BLOGS:
Megan Burke’s Literary Life:
http://bookworm-megs.blogspot.com/2010/02/juggling-time-guest-post-by-paul.html
ReadPlus: http://www.readplus.com.au/blog_detail.php?id=961
Boomerang Books:
http://content.boomerangbooks.com.au/blog/exclusive-paul-collins-slightly-skewed/2010/03
The Reading Stack: http://thereadingstack.blogspot.com/
and http://thereadingstack.blogspot.com/2010/02/guest-blogger-author-paul-collins.html. He talks about the process of getting The Slightly Skewed Life of Toby Chrysler into print.
Good Reading:
http://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/19/Reading-Time
REVIEWS:
Kids' Book Review:
http://kids-book-review.blogspot.com/2010/02/review-slightly-skewed-life-of-toby.html
Gold Creek: http://goldcreek.act.edu.au/yara/
M/C reviews: http://tinyurl.com/yb23n9t
Paul interviewed at Hey! Teenager of the Year: http://heyteenager.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-with-paul-collins-ford-street.html
At the Book Chook:
http://www.thebookchook.com/2010/02/interview-with-writer-and-publisher.html
At M/C Reviews:
http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3558&mode=&order=0&thold=0
Toby Chrysler reviewed at The Book Chook:
http://www.thebookchook.com/2010/03/book-review-slightly-skewed-life-of.html
This is the Portuguese edition of Dragonlinks, Book #1 in The Jelindel Chronicles.
Life's been hectic. Ford Street Publishing takes up most of Paul's time. He's published eight books this year. One of them, Crossing the Line by Dianne Bates, was short-listed for the NSW Premier's Awards.
Paul has also been a guest at the following festivals: Melbourne Writers' Festival, Brisbane Writers' Festival/CYA Conference, ThinkFest and various schools and libraries. Next year he is a guest at the All Saints Festival in WA and the Ubud Festival in Bali.
Trust Me! Launch
by Hazel Edwards www.hazeledwards.com
I’ve never been in a mass autographing session for an anthology before. It was fun and efficient, until I signed on the wrong page. Ford Street publisher Paul Collins had organised about 30 of the 50 anthology contributors which included well known writers, illustrators and poets to do a guest appearance and autographing session for the launch of Trust Me!.
Venue was the State Library at 4.15 sharp, following a conference which attracted primary, secondary and municipal librarians, among other guests.
Short stories are making a comeback, and an anthology of mixed genres, lengths and writers is VERY attractive. Especially when the cover is ‘Cool’ for teens. Isobelle Carmody’s introduction also entices.
P.S. The etiquette of signing is that you do it on the title page, unless there are multiple contributors and then they sign on their own chapters. I signed the name of my story in the table of contents, and a few others followed. Maybe those sigs in unique places will be worth a fortune in years to come, as it’s likely that this collection will be well read.
Trust Me!
distributed by Macmillan
Edited by Paul Collins with an introduction by Isobelle Carmody
Blockbuster anthology
RRP $22.95
ISBN 978-1-876462-57-4
Publication date: May, 2008
Trust Me! Features 50 contributions by some of Australia’s best known children’s authors, poets and illustrators. Original stories, poems and art cross all genres: mystery, romance, crime, fantasy, SF, humour and more. Contributors include: Andy Griffiths, Shaun Tan, Gary Crew, Phillip Gwynne, Catherine Bateson, Steven Herrick, Allan Baillie, Sofie Laguna, Leigh Hobbs, Marc McBride, James Roy, Mitch Vane, Michael Wagner, Kerry Greenwood, David Metzenthen and many others.
Paul is getting back into publishing. His company is called Ford Street Publishing Pty Ltd and will be an imprint of Hybrid Publishers Pty Ltd.
Visit their site: http://www.hybridpublishers.com.au.
Paul has a great line up of authors so far: Isobelle Carmody, Alyssa Brugman, Justin D'Ath, James Roy and Sean McMullen will be writing for Ford Street.
Paul has been busy during 2007. He had fifteen books published by various publishers. A list of the titles can be found on the BOOKS page. Paul will have at least ten books published next year. These include Vampires of Quentaris, the last of the first Quentaris series; Book #2 of The World of Grrym, Lords of Quibbitt, in collaboration with Danny Willis; the first book in the second Quentaris series, The Spell of Undoing; book #4 in The Jelindel Chronicles, Wardragon; an anthology he has edited called Trust Me!, plus several chapter books and graphic novels.
Current and Forthcoming Books
