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Okay, I know I’m a bit behind the times – Loathing Lola has been out for a while now, but over the holidays I scaled the mountain of books on my ‘to be read’ pile and discovered this debut YA novel by William Kostakis’. Loathing Lola was full of surprises right from the start. Leopard-clad [...]

Some other snaps from the Conference: Bob Graham took us through his life and his life’s works. He was then treated to orchestrated interpretations of four of his picture books (composed and conducted by George Ellis) including How To Heal A Broken Wing.  Ursula Dubosarsky and Tohby Riddle took to the stage to discuss the process behind [...]

Jackie French, me, Bruce Whatley The CBCA NSW Conference… wow. I’ve been to my fair share of festivals, but never before have I been to one that felt so inclusive. Authors and other attendees weren’t separated. My experience with other festivals, as both speaker and attendee, has been that after sessions, speakers disappear to green rooms, [...]

Boomerang Books has appointed seven new bloggers to its book content team after receiving over 90 applications from eager writers. ‘The standard of applications received was quite amazing and we found it very difficult to narrow the field down to a manageable shortlist’, said Clayton Wehner, Managing Director and co-owner of Boomerang Books. ‘It was [...]

I think, as a twenty-year-old, I can still speak for this current teenage, male generation – even just a small, nerdy, poetry/novel-writing subsection of it. Body image is everything. I remember hearing once that boys feel the pressure more than girls, for two reasons: 1. for girls, it is accepted to have these issues, and [...]

The nominees for the 2010 Sakura Medal have been announced in Japan, with Australian authors making the list. In the High School category, Melina Marchetta (for her Finnikin of the Rock), Joanne Horniman (My Candlelight Novel) and Margo Lanagan (Tender Morsels) join Boomerang Books’ own William Kostakis (Loathing Lola) in the running for the Medal. Japanese international students vote [...]

Whenever William the author is invited to an event, William the Boomerang Blogger gets indirectly invited too. On Wednesday, NSW authors and illustrators braved the orange dust storm, and headed into the CBD for this year’s Bookfeast, a great event organised by Haberfield school librarian Michael Fraser. Some Boomerang Books Blog alums were there, including Deborah [...]

Beneath the Dark Ice – pitch it in one sentence. Taught adventure thriller with scares a plenty! The best action/thrillers are those with more than just explosions, those that have depth, an engagement with mythology. In Beneath the Dark Ice, you play with legends like the Kraken and Atlantis, and draw on elements of Mayan [...]

Excitement is ramping up for the upcoming NSW Writers’ Centre’s two-day event, the 4th Kids and YA Literature Festival, held July 4-5. The Festival’s bringing together some of the best Australian authors and illustrators, publishers, scriptwriters and industry advocates in what has been dubbed “a celebration of story and the special world of Children’s Literature”. [...]

Hi everyone, My name’s William Kostakis. I’ve been entrusted to help ‘throw the boomerang’. Avid followers of Boomerang Books will notice I’ll be popping up on the Twitter, Facebook, and here on the blog. Why? Boomerang Books prides itself on delivering a quality service to its customers, through online discounts and book giveaways, while helping [...]

Jack Heath (young adult author of Money Run, The Lab and Remote Control) interviews William Kostakis about his writing

William Kostakis on SKY NEWS Book Report – LOATHING LOLA