Mar 9, 2022 | Author news, News & Articles
We are very excited to announce that Melanie Saward has joined Alex Adsett Literary! Melanie is a Bigambul and Wakka Wakka writer, editor, and publisher. She is currently an associate lecturer in the School of Creative Practice at QUT and a PhD candidate. She is also...
Sep 29, 2021 | Author news, News & Articles
Alex Adsett Literary is beyond excited to announce that Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to Jodi McAlister’s YA rom-com LIBBY LAWRENCE IS GOOD AT PRETENDING. Wakefield Press says: This sparkling, archly witty campus novel places its sensible heroine, Libby,...
Sep 27, 2021 | Author news, News & Articles
We are absolutely thrilled to share that Kathleen Jennings has won Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award) in the 2021 British Fantasy Awards for FLYAWAY. The phenomenal FLYAWAY is Jennings’ debut novel. In its pages, Jennings assures you that gothic delights,...
Sep 9, 2021 | Author news, News & Articles
We are so excited to share that our author Trent Jamieson (and illustrator Rovina Cai) have won the Picture Fiction category of the Wilderness Society’s Environment Award for Children’s Literature 2021. The Giant and the Sea is gorgeous picture book about climate...
Aug 27, 2021 | News & Articles
In our biggest piece of news yet, we can at last reveal Rochelle Fernandez is joining Alex Adsett Literary as a new Australian literary agent. Rochelle is a former publisher at HarperCollins and has almost twenty years experience in Australian publishing. As an...
Aug 23, 2021 | News & Articles
Alex Adsett Literary is growing! I am so excited to introduce my incredible new assistant Lin Li Wan! Lin has just graduated Arts/Law from UQ, and is studying her Masters in Publishing. She is the unicorn of a young publisher – she adores reading, is incredibly...
