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.
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. [...]
