Margaret Connolly has been a literary agent for more than twenty years, after giving up a career as a lawyer in the mid-1980s.
She set up her own business in 1992, and since then has developed a client list which resembles a roll-call of Australia's finest novelists, poets, dramatists, non-fiction authors, film-makers, children's writers and illustrators.
She works from home, on a desk which is covered with papers and one very useful computer.
The "Associates" in her company's title consist of her husband, three children and a dog named Arthur.
It has been an exciting twelve months for Tasmanian children’s author, Lian Tanner, as these items from the Publishers Lunch website show: June 5, 2009 Children’s: Fantasy Lian Tanner’s Museum of Thieves, the first in a trilogy about a young girl who escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guardchains [...]
