Books+Publishing Competitors

Hawkeye Publishing prides itself on finding and nurturing new talent. The current climate for writers and book stores in Australia is challenging. We are a new breed of publisher intent on preserving the hard copy format of books, whilst at the same time placing into the market, innovative and fun ways to capture the emerging online audience.

Alex Adsett Literary is a full service literary agency, representing quality works of fiction and non-fiction for children, teens and adults. We also provide freelance consultancy services for Australian publishers and authors, including commercial review of publishing contracts.

Founded by Australian author/illustrator, Tania McCartney, it is run by a small team of women who have decades of experience in the children's book industry, with roles such as author, publisher, editor, illustrator, bookseller, blogger, book designer and typesetter, speech pathologist, teacher, librarian, children's literature academic, early childhood educator, education specialist, mother and book lover. We cover news, reviews, interviews, articles, guest posts, events, specialist literacy articles and much more, attracting readers from all over the world including teachers, librarians, industry professionals, and of course - parents and kids. KBR consistently falls into the top 700,000 - 900,000 websites worldwide (Alexa), and has over 600 referring domains, with a PR Quality listed as 'strong'. It ranks #1 in a Google search for 'reviews, books, kids, children's books' and was ranked no. 23 in the Top 100 Review sites worldwide in October 2016. In December 2017, KBR was honoured as the world's #1 kidlit site by Feedspot. We achieve an average of around 80,000 hits per month, with a peak of 249,395 for the month of November, 2017, and we are proud to be one of the most respected literary sites on the web. We receive books from major Australian publishers, indie publishers and international publishers for review, and we use our considerable social networking skills to further promote and enhance any book appearance on KBR. For more information on our review policy see POLICY.