Welcoming JASMIN MCGAUGHEY to the Agency

Bookings are now open for the Toolkit Towards Publication publishing masterclass for 2025! I will be running the course again starting on Wednesday 18th June 2025, and running for six weeks, with each session running from 7pm – 8.30pm AEST. Across the six weeks, we...

What a truly wonderful weekend at the Clunes Booktown Festival. It was great to connect with so many colleagues, authors, friends & aspiring authors across the panels and bookstalls! Alex ran a Pitching Dos and Don'ts workshop on the Sat, chaired a great...

And we’re a wrap on another huge year at #AlexAdsettLiterary. THIRTY FOUR (34!!!) incredible books published, from picture books to middle grade, graphic novels, crime, romance, spec fic, commercial fiction, cookbooks, non-fic and literary! I am so proud of all our...

Toolkit Towards Publication is an exclusive new publishing course being delivered directly by literary agent Alex Adsett for the first time ever. It builds on workshops previously run for Writers Centres (so we know it works!) with extra material and special guests...

In mid March, the three new recruits to Alex Adsett Literary flew up to a very rainy Gold Coast, to join Alex for three days of brainstorming strategy, direction, values, and what more we could be doing for our authors! It was the most inspiring way to cement this new...

I talk a lot about the different hats people wear in the publishing industry – and here at Alex Adsett Literary, I have two hats in particular I swap between – literary agent, and publishing consultant. As a consultant, I can help authors negotiate their publishing...

Alex Adsett Literary is thrilled to welcome the incredible Lisa Fuller to the team as an emerging literary agent. Thanks to the support of Creative Australia, Lisa will be spending a year being mentored by senior agent Alex Adsett on the ins and outs of working as a...

Twenty twenty three has been another huge year of growth at Alex Adsett Literary, and in the final wrap up it turns out we’ve published THIRTY THREE amazing books from our incredible authors and illustrators!!! (!!!!). We also welcomed on board new agent Abigail Nathan, celebrated first sales by both Rochelle Fernandez and Abigail, and farewelled Brian Cook to his well deserved retirement. With one working week of 2023 to go, I’m one very proud and very tired agent, and no, I don’t have a good reason for the festive dinosaur. Scroll through for more on this year’s brilliant book haul – we’ve got junior fic, literary fiction bestselling superstars, crime, middle grade, YA, commercial fiction & rom com, and so many picture books! Thank you to everyone – publishers, authors, readers – for supporting another big year!

With a sold out crowd of more than 200 people, tonight we launched Edenglassie, the extraordinary new novel by the legendary Melissa Lucashenko with the superstar team of Avid Reader Bookshop and publishers University of Queensland Press. This book is a tour de force...