{"id":174,"date":"2011-09-27T22:56:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T12:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=174"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:13:50","slug":"publishers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=174","title":{"rendered":"Publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p id=\"top\" \/>Keep in mind that I haven&#8217;t been published in print, so my knowledge of the publishing world is somewhat theoretical. Having said that, within Australia I have found that the following publishers seem to have a speculative fiction focus. I&#8217;m sure there are many others, that I&#8217;ll add as I come across them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Australian Publishers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Harper Voyager\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voyageronline.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harper\u00a0Voyager<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the larger publishers in Australia specialising in speculative fiction. The Voyager Online site has a forum for sharing writing etc. The speculative fiction arm of\u00a0<a title=\"Harper Collins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harper Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Hachette\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hachette.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hachette<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The local Australian publisher that is part of Orbit internationally.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Momentum website\" href=\"http:\/\/momentumbooks.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Momentum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The digital\u00a0only imprint for\u00a0<a title=\"Pan Macmillan Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pan Macmillan Australia<\/a>. They have been very active in the Australian speculative fiction space.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Penguin Books Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penguin Books Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another one of the big publishers. Speculative fiction is included, but not a focus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Simon and Schuster Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon &amp; Schuster Australia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Big publisher but again without a speculative fiction focus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Random House Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Random House Australia Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last of the big publishers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"top\"><\/p>Hi,\n<p>Welcome to Mark Webb&#8217;s author website. At this point the site is rather sparse &#8211; I&#8217;ve only recently started writing and there isn&#8217;t a lot to show for it right now. You can check out\u00a0<a title=\"All About Mark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/?page_id=11\">my biography<\/a>, see &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions\/3258"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwebb.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}