• 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.




    • Edrei Cullen

    Edrei Cullen: Clearheart

    Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

    The cover for Clearheart, Edrei Cullen’s sequel to Flitterwig. Clearheart, will be published by Scholastic Press in June. Ella Montgomery is a Flitterwig — part human, part magical. And not just any Flitterwig. She is the Clearheart — a girl with a special destiny, who can perform magic that no other Flitterwig can. To foil [...]

    Design Awards shortlist for MC&A

    Friday, February 20th, 2009

    The shortlists for the 57th Annual Australian Book Publishers Design Awards for 2009 have just been announced, and congratulations to the designers and publishers of the books from my list which have been shortlisted. Flitterwig by Edrei Cullen, cover designer Madeline Smith, internal designer Simone Kelleher, publisher Scholastic Australia. Shortlisted for The Best Designed Children’s [...]

    Edrei Cullen & Gregory Rogers: Four stars for Flitterwig

    Saturday, July 19th, 2008

    From Good Reading, July 2008. Are your feet too big, your ears slightly pointy on the top and do you have a weakness for sugar? Perhaps you’re a Flitterwig: someone who is part human, part magical. The day Ella meets an emotionally unstable yet passionately loyal pixie, and discovers that she is part-Elf, her life [...]

    Edrei Cullen & Gregory Rogers: Flitterwig

    Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

    The understated cover for Edrei Cullen’s novel for young readers, Flitterwig, which is illustrated by Gregory Rogers. What if wandering around in your neighbourhood, are people with a bit of pixie in them, or a bit of elf, or a bit of goblin? Ella always thought she was odd, but when a mysterious purple package [...]

    Edrei Cullen: Flitterwig

    Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

    Born in Scotland, Edrei Cullen was home schooled on a cargo ship in the Mediterranean until she was 11. Then she was sent to a boarding school in England, a traumatic experience on account of the cold and having to wear shoes all the time. To save her from this plight, Edrei dreamt up the [...]