The Booktopia Book Guru asks Julie Anne Long author of The Legend of Lyon Redmond and many more… Nine Naughty Questions ____________   1. Headless washboard abs, a torrid embrace, the sprawling homestead, an elegantly dressed décolletage, or the vaguely kinky object against a dark background – what’s your favourite type of romance cover and why? Some of those covers are pretty artful and s... Read more

It’s Kids Month at Booktopia and we have awesome competitions for you to enter and signed promotions for you to enjoy! Old School Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Book 10 by Jeff Kinney Buy anything in the Kids Month range and you could win a kids book pack, worth $1000 RRP! Terms and Conditions apply. The Diary of the Wimpy Kid series of books, by best-selling author Jeff Kinney, charts the highs ... Read more

In December 2013 the whole of Melbourne was buzzing with the details of a most bizarre murder... Read more

When I was first published, a wise and experienced author told me, 'You're only as good as your last book'... Read more

The brilliant Danny Katz writes about the difficulties of getting kids to read in this exclusive Kids Month piece You can’t force a non-reading kid to read. You can’t occy-strap a book to their face and hold their eyelids open with alligator clips – they don’t like it, they say it hurts, kids today are so soft. If a non-reading kid ever attempts to read a book, they see it as work, ... Read more

I am rarely conscious that I might be writing a book for children... Read more

Bestselling Australian children’s author Tristan Bancks introduces The Room to Read World Challenge Australian children’s and teen authors are banding together with school children across the country to raise $40,000 to buy 40,000 books for children in Nepal by October. And you can join us. Authors behind the challenge include Melina Marchetta (Looking for Alibrandi), Jacqueline Harvey (A... Read more

Bestselling Australian author Kathryn Fox writes about the events leading up to her collaboration with James Patterson Eleven years ago, I was an author with a debut novel close to release. I was also an avid fan of crime fiction, which is what inspired me to write in the first place. James Patterson was one of my favourite authors. When I heard he was coming to Sydney for a visit, I couldn’t w... Read more

Guest Blogger Jeremy Vine looks at the most famous Queer Characters in the Comic Book World. Superhero comics push a lot of story-telling boundaries and often touch on some very topical issues, but let’s be honest, they aren’t always down with the rainbow. Over the years there have been a lot of characters who would fall into the category of ‘queer’ but not as many who w... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Claire Varley author of The Bit in Between Ten Terrifying Questions ____________ 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? Born in Geelong, raised on the Bellarine Peninsula and schooled in the art of wit and one-liners that don’t quite deliver. Geelong is great; it is a pilot city of the NDIS a... Read more