AAPS welcomes Favel Parrett

AAPS is delighted to announce Martin Shaw’s latest signing to the agency: acclaimed Melbourne novelist Favel Parrett! Martin writes: “I remember so well when I first met Favel. Her publisher, Hachette, put on a little event one evening for booksellers at...

Pitching opportunities with AAPS

Hi Everyone, We have just confirmed some exciting speaking and pitching opportunities for the last part of 2018, and updated the Where We Are page accordingly. Over the next few months, Alex will be taking manuscript assessments, or direct pitches at Conflux in...

WE’LL SHOW THE WORLD UP FOR 3 QLAs

We are delighted to congratulate the amazing Jackie Ryan for receiving THREE nominations in the 2018 Queensland Literary Awards Shortlists, for her incredible work of research and passion, We’ll Show The World: Expo 88. This story of Brisbane’s almighty...

UQP Acquires Meg Mundell’s second novel

The Trespassers, the second novel by Meg Mundell, the Melbourne-based author of Black Glass (Scribe, 2011), has been acquired by Aviva Tuffield at the University of Queensland Press after what literary agent Martin Shaw from Alex Adsett Publishing Services describes...