Alice Grundy

Alice Grundy is researching a PhD on Australian editing and publishing history at ANU. She has worked in trade publishing for the past dozen years and is currently Associate Publisher at Brio Books.

Works By Alice Grundy

Selling Tales, Telling Sales
Fiction is big business. In her review of Dan Sinykin’s study of American publishing, Alice Grundy shows the importance of the demythologising effects of Sinykin’s institutionalist approach for both literary scholarship and industrial relations.
10 Mar. 2024
Blue Pencils and Red Pens
Each of the editors in Literary Lion Tamers was successful in large part because of their ability to persuade authors to be published by them and, then to convince readers to buy their books.
25 Mar. 2021
The Crystal Mirror or the Book That Wasn’t
The archive shows that Anderson enjoyed both very limited editorial intervention into Tirra Lirra by the River and suffered from the over-reach of her publisher. In each case the manuscripts and letters reveal comments made by reviewers and critic...
27 Sept. 2020
Editor’s Cut: Notes on the Chinese publishing industry
China and Australia are roughly the same size, but with nearly 100 times our population, distribution of books in China is made easier by the simple fact of greater population density. In poor and rural areas, there can be difficulty reaching cust...
4 Nov. 2014
Nimble innovators
The recent sprouting of literary journals in Australia is proof of the scene’s fecundity. The past five years have witnessed the birth of Kill Your Darlings, Archer, Contrappasso, Higher Arc, Cuttings, Tincture, The Canary Press, Stilts, The Revie...
21 Mar. 2014

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Alice Grundy

Works By Alice Grundy

Selling Tales, Telling Sales

Blue Pencils and Red Pens

The Crystal Mirror or the Book That Wasn’t

Editor’s Cut: Notes on the Chinese publishing industry

Nimble innovators