Notes by Mary de RuyterIt was a night of munchies and memories, saveloys and stories. Below are LPF members’ favourite children’s books. Thanks to all those who made it such a fun night.
A list of recommended titles from the LPF Book Group's Australian Literature evening.
A list of recommended titles from the LPF Book Group's Travel Books evening.
A list of recommended titles from the LPF Book Group's Crime Fiction evening.
Notes by Christine O'Brien
The inaugural meeting of the LPF book group on 8 March focused on Cook Books. Generally, most seemed to agree that the fundamentals of a 'good' cook book are recipes that work, ingredients that can be easily sourced, a good index (although a detailed table of contents that is has a logical organisation will do) and that it must be 'practical'. Long-time cook-book editor Barbara Nielson also strongly made the point that rigorous editing, with detailed attention to amounts of ingredients, is vital.
But group member's favourites were chosen for many reasons. Beautiful photographs, history, amusing anecdotes, mesmerising narrative displaying a passion for food, all played their part.
Archive Wednesday, 16 November 2005
Notes from conference by Cynthia McKenzie with help from Gillian Koostra and Sam Hill
- Transition: changes in language and technology
- Consolidation: keeping up to date
- Collaboration: working together, from authors to readers
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Report written by Amy Palmer
The need to treat authors with respect and managing the flow of
unsolicited manuscripts were two of the common themes that emerged from
the LPF editing focus group seminar on assessing manuscripts on 20 June
2001. Jane Connor of Random House, Ray Richards of Richards Literary
Agency and Chris Cole Catley of Cape Catley were the panel of experts
for this informative and successful seminar.
Article written by Nigel Heslop
On July 25 2001 the Local Publishers Forum conducted the first in a
series of seminars focusing on eBooks. The seminar, entitled ‘eBooks
101’, was held at CCH New Zealand and presented by the LPF’s Paul
Slatin and Tony Murrow, and Warren Duncan and Rik Roper of Medios
Limited, specialist integrators in palmtop technology.
eBooks have been around since 1998, and while most people in the
publishing industry are aware of their existence, actual hands-on
experience is limited; indeed a show of hands at a recent LPF working
committee meeting revealed that only two members had ever used one.
Given the considerable investment in eBook technologies currently being
made by Microsoft and Adobe, and the possibility that eBooks may
provide the route to literacy for the supposedly non-reading ‘Y’
Generation, it quickly becomes apparent that the time is right for an
investigation of all things eBook…
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