Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
20 March 2024
Lisa Fuller is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, and is also descended from Gooreng Gooreng and Wakka Wakka peoples. Her debut YA novel Ghost Bird won numerous awards...
Meet the publisher: Nicola Robinson at the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
20 March 2024
After a ‘varied career in educational and trade—both kids and adult—publishing’ Nicola Robinson is ‘now lucky enough to head up the publishing team at the Indigenous Literacy Foundation’ (ILF), which...
Australian authors recommend
20 March 2024
Australian creators tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Anton Clifford-Motopi is the debut author of the novel To and Fro (Allen & Unwin...
Introducing Key People
3 October 2023
Earlier this year, publishing professionals Lou Johnson and Jeanne Ryckmans set up a new literary agency, Key People Literary Management. With a connection going back to their time as colleagues...
We Come With This Place: Debra Dank on her debut and what comes next
6 April 2023
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut memoir is in the running for three NSW Premier’s awards and the Stella Prize, about the...
Graphic novel researcher: ‘Australian publishers are hungry for titles’
21 February 2023
Sophie Splatt, an editor of books for children and young adults at Allen & Unwin for the past decade, is the Australian Publishers Association's (APA) 2023 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow....
Spotlight on Annabel Barker
21 February 2023
The launch of your own agency was quickly followed by the pandemic; how did that affect what you were pitching and how you were making deals? Like others, I had...
Spotlight on Jess Racklyeft
21 February 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has been awarded a Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarship to attend this year’s Bologna book fair. Here she...
Australian creators recommend
21 February 2023
Australian creators tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Illustrator and author Jess Racklyeft will attend this year's Bologna Book Fair as the...
Introducing Bold Type Agency
13 October 2022
Nerrilee Weir, former Penguin Random House Australia senior rights manager and Fiona Henderson, former Simon & Schuster Australia publishing director, have joined forces to create new rights agency Bold Type...
Australian authors recommend
13 October 2022
Australian authors tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why. Michelle Kadarusman is the author of the middle-grade book on animal activism Berani (A&U...
Bologna Prize shortlist: EK Books
16 March 2022
Publisher Anouska Jones introduces health and wellbeing press Exisle Publishing's children's imprint EK Books. How and why did Exisle's children's imprint EK begin its life? Exisle Publishing began 30 years...
Bologna Prize shortlist: Magabala Books
16 March 2022
Publisher Rachel Bin Salleh introduces Australia's leading First Nations press Magabala Books. How and why did Magabala's children's division begin its life? Magabala has been publishing children’s pictures books since...
Bologna Prize shortlist: Affirm Press
16 March 2022
Children's publisher Tash Besliev intoduces Melbourne independent Affirm Press. How and why did the Affirm Press children's division begin its life? After successfully publishing across many other categories, Affirm Press...
Meet literary agent Martin Shaw
29 September 2021
Since moving from Australia to Germany in 2015, former book buyer Martin Shaw has established himself as a literary agent, first as ‘an understudy’ to Alex Adsett, and subsequently as...
Meet literary agent Natasha Solomun
9 June 2021
Natasha Solomun worked as a rights executive at Penguin Random House Australia and Five Mile Press before launching The Rights Hive, a literary rights agency that represents mostly independent Australian...
Meet PRH Australia rights executive for children’s books Jordan Meek
26 May 2021
After joining the rights team at Penguin Random House Australia three years ago, Jordan Meek now manages the publisher’s children’s rights in translation markets. She spoke to Think Australian. How...
Meet literary agent Jacinta di Mase
17 March 2021
Jacinta di Mase is the founder and lead agent at Jacinta di Mase Management, which she established after working under ‘formidable’ agents Lyn Tranter and Jenny Darling. She spoke to...
Meet UQP rights and contracts manager Kate McCormack
30 September 2020
Kate McCormack has been the rights and contracts manager for Brisbane-based independent UQP for the past four years, joining the publisher after 10 years at Penguin Random House Australia and...
Introducing Madeleine St John’s ‘The Women in Black’
14 November 2018
Madeleine St John’s The Women in Black was in hot demand at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year after Text Publishing recently acquired translation rights. The coming-of-age story set in...
Introducing literary agent Benython Oldfield
11 October 2018
Benython Oldfield is an Australian literary agent and the Sydney-based director of Zeitgeist Media Group Agency, which represents 40 Australian authors alongside other international writers and illustrators. He spoke to...
Introducing Benjamin Stevenson’s ‘Greenlight’
11 October 2018
Australian author Benjamin Stevenson’s debut novel Greenlight is a ‘nail-biting thriller that turns popular true-crime such as Serial and Making a Murderer on its head’. Released in Australia in September,...
Introducing Peggy Frew’s ‘Islands’
13 September 2018
In March 2019, Allen & Unwin will publish award-winning Australian author Peggy Frew’s third novel Islands, the story of the disintegration of a marriage and its tragic aftermath. The publisher...
Introducing Giramondo
14 August 2018
Sydney-based small press Giramondo has won most major literary awards in Australia with its list of ‘diverse, unusual and genre-defying’ fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Commissioning editor Nick Tapper spoke to...
Introducing Transit Lounge
12 July 2018
Transit Lounge was founded ‘with the express purpose of publishing Australian writing that engages with other cultures’, says publisher Barry Scott. The small press’ titles include the 2016 Miles Franklin...
Introducing MidnightSun Publishing
15 June 2018
MidnightSun publisher Anna Solding tells Think Australian about her small South Australian press and her 'amazing' six-figure deal. What makes your press unique? We only publish books that we love....
Introducing Wild Dingo Press
10 May 2018
Wild Dingo Press launched its list with a commissioned biography by a refugee from Afghanistan, which went on to become an Australian bestseller. Last year the press took a chance...
Introducing Alex Adsett
11 April 2018
Alex Adsett is a literary agent representing authors across all ages and most genres, and also a freelance publishing consultant offering commercial contract advice to authors and publishers. She has 20...
Introducing Brow Books
8 March 2018
Sam Cooney is publisher at literary magazine The Lifted Brow and its recently established books imprint, Brow Books, as well as being a writer, literary critic, teacher, host, prize judge...
Introducing Sophy Williams
8 February 2018
Sophy Williams is the international director for Melbourne publisher Black Inc., which specialises in ‘serious nonfiction books, including politics, current affairs, biography, memoir and history’. Alongside its core list, Black...
