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Ask an ALAA Agent: What Does an Agent Do?

ALAA agent Jacinta di Mase answers some common questions about literary agents.   What does a literary agent do? A literary agent is a writer’s representative in the commercial world: their manager, their business representative, protector of their copyright, the one who weighs in on the side of the author/illustrator in all dealings.  An agent […]

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Ask an ALAA Agent – How do I get my YA manuscript published?

There are certain ‘signposts’ that, if I see them in a Young Adult (YA) manuscript submission pitch, they can tell me all I need to know about how much an author actually understands YA literature and the readership they purport to be writing for.  1. YA is not a genre  This is a golden rule.

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Ask an ALAA Agent: A Popular Question

Australian Literary Management was established in 1980 by Caroline Lurie. I joined the company some ten years later and in 1993 became the sole owner. The mainstay of the agency was Australian literary fiction. We also represented a few children’s authors, biography authors, historians and academics. As far as popular fiction went, it mainly consisted

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Ask an ALAA Agent: Who Gives a PIR? We All Should!

‘The Government supports the removal of parallel import restrictions on books.’ –The Australian Government response to the (Harper) Competition Policy Review   When the Turnbull Government published this statement in late 2015, it rendered hollow all its claims about being proinnovation. Indeed, it signed the death warrant of a globally envied local publishing industry and

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Ask an ALAA Agent: A Call to Action

The Australian Literary Agents’ Association (ALAA) represents more than one thousand established and emerging authors and illustrators across all sectors of the publishing industry. Along with many others in the publishing community, our members were shocked to hear that the federal government is considering the repeal of existing parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books. These

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Nothing about us, without us

Every fortnight, our Writeability Writers’ Group sessions give writers with disability the opportunity to meet and discuss their work. At December’s Writeability Salon, these talented emerging writers will share some of their stories. ‘Nothing about us, without us’ is the theme for this year’s Salon, which coincides with 2015’s International Day of People with Disability.

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