We’re very excited that We Heart Books was mentioned on Romona Koval’s The Book Show on Radio National on Monday…
Romona was discussing with Gideon Haigh and Andrew Wilkins (Director of Wilkins Farago Publishing) the standard of literary reviewing in Australia. Gideon Haigh has recently been published in the new journal Kill Your Darlings, which claims that the book pages of Australian newspapers and magazines have become ‘hodgepodges of conventional wisdom and middlebrow advertorial.’ They discussed the future of reviewing and the role that blogs may have…
Here’s what Andrew had to say:
The positive thing from my point of view is that there are now communities of people saying this isn’t enough and we can actually set up our own thing… The cost of setting up anything on the internet [means] you can actually produce a vibrant, interesting, blog – I’m thinking of Inside a Dog which does Young Adult fiction for example, We Heart Books, which does kids’ literature. These are people with no budgets, negative budgets, and yet they’re able to get good quality material out online and build a community of people who actually care about similar things.
We’re quite chuffed! You can listen to the whole interview with Gideon and Andrew here.
Bravo!
Congratulations! That’s brilliant (free) publicity
Wow – Radio National… very impressive. Cheers!
That’s great. And so true. The assumption seems to be that if it’s on the internet it’s not rigorous or valuable. You guys do a t’riffic job.
Wow – so exciting for you, gals! I’m sure this is just the start of a wave of attention the site will be getting. On top of all the publicity it’s already had. Kudos!
Too exciting ladies, well done. I don’t know where I’d be without your recommendations and advice. And so lovely they thought to mention you! I knew I liked that Gideon Haigh…
Good on you! No ‘hodgepodges of conventional wisdom here’, thank goodness. You’re setting a new and desperately needed standard.
You SHOULD be chuffed! Nice work!
Went to social media workshop a couple of weeks ago in Canberra run by a woman called Laurel Papworth (you heard of her? – google her) and a couple of others in online media and information tech. Your blog seriously rocks, and has all the hallmarks of a rigourous and well-supported online resource. That’s really something coming from a scientist….