Martin Shaw - I'm a literary professional with twenty-five years experience in Australian books and publishing. I’m passionate about bringing together fine writers with great publishers, both within Australia and internationally.
Currently with a home base in Germany, I regularly attend the world’s major annual book fairs (London, Frankfurt), as well as getting back to OZ as often as I can!
Pip Adam PipAdam.com
Patrick Allington patrickallington.net.au
James Burgmann Milner
Tim Byrne
Lucy Campbell
Megan Clement MeganClement.com
Brendan Colley
Claire Corbett clairecorbett.com
Mali Cornish
Alex Cothren AlexCothren.com
Jen Craig
Paul Dalgarno PaulDalgarno.com
Tom Doig tomdoig.com
Eloise Grills EloiseGrills.com
Rodney Hall RodneyHall.net.au
Ingrid Horrocks IngridHorrocks.com
Adriane Howell AdrianeHowell.com
Michelle Johnston MichelleJohnston.com.au
Yumna Kassab
Kath Kenny KathKenny.com
Kirsten McDougall
Wayne Marshall
Angela Meyer LiteraryMinded.com.au
Jennifer Mills JenniferMills.net.au/
Steve Minon SteveMinon.com
Meg Mundell MegMundell.com.au
Angela O'Keeffe
Adam Ouston costyoume.co
Sue Orr
Peter Papathanasiou FromThePlasticPen.wordpress.com
Chris Raja ChristopherRaja.com
Andrew Roff RoffWrites.com
Emma Shortis emmashortis.com
Jeff Sparrow
Paul Thomas
Ben Walter Ben-Walter.com
Michael Winkler MichaelWinkler.com.au
When submitting, please include a covering letter, synopsis, and a short bio. Although relatively catholic in terms of the genres we’ll consider, the agency does lean towards outstanding literary fiction, irresistible commercial fiction and strong non-fiction.
Please also advise if your manuscript is currently entered into a literary competition which has a publisher affiliation, or has been directly submitted to a publisher or literary agent, either currently or in the past.
For general information and advice about the publishing industry, including professional freelance editors who can help you develop/enhance your work, please contact your local state Writers’ Centre. For in-depth industry or contractual advice, I heartily recommend the services of Alex Adsett at alexadsett.com.au.
Get in touch! Send me an email at martin [at] thebooksdesk [dot] com
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