Alex Adsett is a consultant offering publishing contract advice to authors, publishers and booksellers. She has fifteen years experience working in the publishing and bookselling industry, as well as a solid background in legal research and contract drafting.
Having started her bookselling career at Pulp Fiction Bookshop in Brisbane, Australia she then moved to Murder One bookstore in London, UK, followed by more than two years working for Simon and Schuster Publishers in London. On returning to Australia, she worked for three years in the Rights and Contracts Department of Penguin Books in Melbourne, before moving to the Contracts Department of John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
Alex has managed Alex Adsett Publishing Services since 2008, working with publishers including University of Queensland Press and Sleepers, and authors such as Barry Humphries, Kylie Chan, Sue Woolfe, Krissy Kneen, Narelle Oliver, and Chris Currie. She relies on her experience and passion for book publishing to offer sensible publishing business and contract advice.
Alex has served on the Management Committee of the Queensland Writers’ Centre since 2010, and has recently joined the Board of the Small Publishers’ Network. In 2010 she was on the Copyright Expert Reference Group of the Australian Publishers’ Association.
She has appeared at the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival in 2010 and 2011, Worldcon 2010, Emerging Writers’ Festival 2011 and Brisbane Writers’ Festival 2011. Her articles on contracts, copyright and digital rights have appeared in The Island Magazine, Bookseller + Publisher, WQ, Writers Victoria magazine, ACT Writers Centre Magazine and the Australian Writers Marketplace.