• About

    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.




    • Margaret Wild

    Margaret Wild & Nina Rycroft: No More Kisses

    Sunday, February 14th, 2010

    No More Kisses is the new picture book by Margaret Wild and Nina Rycroft, to be published by Little Hare in April, 2010.

    Five stars for Piglet

    Sunday, June 28th, 2009

    Margaret Hamilton awards five stars to Piglet and Granny the July issue of Bookseller & Publisher. There is no better combination in picture books for young children than the award-winning team of Margaret Wild and Stephen Michael King. Previous books Piglet and Mama and Piglet and Papa are already firm favourites, so this third book [...]

    Margaret Wild & Julie Vivas: Puffling

    Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

    The Fiewel & Friends cover for the US edition of the picture book Puffling by Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas. Publication is scheduled for Autumn 2009. Puffling is a baby — small, white, and very hungry. Every day he waits in the burrow while his parents, Big Stripy Beak and Long Black Feather hunt for [...]

    The Pocket Dogs go on holiday

    Thursday, September 25th, 2008

    The Pocket Dogs go on Holiday is the new picture book written by Margaret Wild and illustrated by Stephen Michael King, and is to be published by Omnibus Books in October. It is a sequel to the internationally successful The Pocket Dogs.          

    Julie Vivas & Margaret Wild: Puffling

    Friday, November 9th, 2007

    The cover of Puffling, the beautiful new picture book by Julie Vivas and Margaret Wild, which will be published by Omnibus Books in February, 2008.            

    Kerry Argent & Margaret Wild: Ruby Roars

    Monday, September 24th, 2007

    Coming soon from Allen & Unwin, a new picture book by Kerry Argent and Margaret Wild, Ruby Roars. When she was a baby, Ruby liked making popping noises with her dummy. ‘Pop! Pop! Pop!’ When she was older, she tried making scary noises instead. But she couldn’t frighten anyone, not a frog, not a fish. [...]

    Children’s Book Council 2007 shortlist

    Monday, April 23rd, 2007

    The Children’s Book Council of Australia has just announced its shortlist for 2007, and congratulations to my following authors and illustrator who are short listed: Judith Clarke for One Whole and Perfect Day, Older Readers category. Stephen Michael King, illustrator of Glenda Millard’s Layla, Queen of Hearts, Younger Readers Category. Margaret Wild, for Chatterbox, illustrated [...]